In Case You Missed March 2024
The Inevitability of AI in Every Facet of Your Business: 11 Deep Thoughts With Lasting Impact; Mastering AI Disruption: Identifying Your Industry's Wave for Strategic Advantage.
This is the Three Data Point Thursday, making your business smarter with data & AI.
This special in-between issue serves as a recap of the last editions and more of my writing. It features a few quotes from each piece so you can get a feel for them and quickly jump around the Three Data Point Thursday universe.
Enjoy!
Free Course On Analytics Product Management - by me
—because it's hard to start out leading an analytics team! I've seen that the most challenging part for analytics PMs is discovery, not really prototyping or solution finding but really digging into who the internal customers for their team really are and what they really want.
I'm working on an email course for Analytics team leads on product management. But since I'm super slow, I decided to release what I got so far for free.
The Inevitability of AI in Every Facet of Your Business: 11 Deep Thoughts With Lasting Impact
If you want to create a next-level business, think about mediums. If you want to know what tools you should bet on today, turn to mediums. It’s the reason I’m betting more and more on consolidated platforms like databricks and Snowflake, because I believe they will soon be the medium of mediums.
Mastering AI Disruption: Identifying Your Industry's Wave for Strategic Advantage
You might think that the search engine market and other 100% bit-based sectors are at the very forefront of the AI disruption, but they are in fact not. Bio is. Even though it is very much an atom-based industry, and that’s why it poses such a great example.
Why should you care? Because you need to know what kinds of waters you're entering to devise a good data strategy. If you’re a product manager and are looking at a wave 1 industry, it’s a vastly different environment than a wave 3. If you’re a startup entering a wave two industry, I won’t be on your side to hold your hand when you drown.
TimescaleDB and the Quest for the Ultimate Time Series Database: Growth, Challenges, and Strategic Moves
Fast forward to today, and Ajay’s company, Timescale, has delivered on the promise of successfully navigating the COSS space with a huge open-source project and a successful business model, achieving unicorn status in late 2022 with its latest funding round. With that, Timescale is already one of just a handful of companies managing the open-source/business straddle position.
But what makes me return to Timescale today isn’t open-source; it is what’s about to come for that company: I believe Timescale is about to enter fast-moving water—the space in business where it will feel like businesses are getting swept away by currents so strong that you’re either growing extremely fast or going broke.
Until next week,
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