Anbu Neelamegam

Technology Optimist

[Flo Crivello @Altimor]

GPT3 writing code. A compiler from natural language to code.
People don't understand — this will change absolutely everything. We're decoupling human horsepower from code production. The intellectual equivalent of the discovery of the engine. https://t.co/QGJbQRBdQv

[Chetan Puttagunta @chetanp]

Shopify in 2019:
$642M subscription revenue
$1.6B total revenue
1.1M customers

Shopify built a massive business with $600 of subscription revenue and $1500 of total revenue per customer per year.

Capturing the long tail of internet businesses is spectacular.

[Anbu Neelamegam @anbs]

@patrick_oshag SaaS

[John Collison @collision]

Excited to finally find someone willing to talk to me about accounting problems! Was just the cat up to now.

[Alexis Ohanian 🗽 @alexisohanian]

I co-founded @reddit 15 years ago to help people find community and a sense of belonging.


It is long overdue to do the right thing. I’m doing this for me, for my family, and for my country.

[Zack Kanter @zackkanter]

Inversion helps here: if you build an organization with minimal hierarchy, bureaucracy, and controls, you can only get away with hiring great people.

[Patrick OShaughnessy @patrick_oshag]

My conversation with one of my favorite business thinkers, @benthompson. We discuss:

- what if "disruption" is over?
- aggregation theory, platforms, and tech infrastructure
- how the internet changes the constraints that matter for business

Jam packed

https://t.co/nucGigEWo0

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

1 country, 2 justice systems

[Chetan Puttagunta @chetanp]

Target’s e-commerce growth continues to be remarkable:

Feb 2020: 33% growth
Mar 2020: 100% growth
Apr 2020: 282% growth

Same-day service grew 278%
80% of digital sales fulfilled by Target stores

Target’s e-commerce revenue this quarter reached $3B, growing 141% annually.

[Chetan Puttagunta @chetanp]

Stunning growth across the board:

March 2015 revenue run-rate:
Amazon AWS: $6B
Microsoft Azure: $1B
Google GCP: $0.2B

March 2020 revenue run-rate:
Amazon AWS: $41B, 7x growth
Microsoft Azure: $20B, 20x growth
Google GCP: $7B, 30x growth

Dramatic shift in enterprise software.

[Chetan Puttagunta @chetanp]

Exceptional Q1 from Google Cloud (GCP & G-Suite):

$11B revenue run-rate
Growing 52%

GCP:
Likely growing ~80%
Large customer wins

G-Suite:
Likely growing ~25%
Meet (video conferencing) adding 3M new users per day, 100M DAU, 30x growth since Jan 2020

Remarkable momentum.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

https://t.co/IlRYdH6610

[Balaji @balajis]

All elevators, doors, faucets, and handles will go to voice or gesture based activation as standard.

The technology now exists for hands-free everything. This is going to be hygiene 2.0 across society, at least in Asia.

[The Daily Show @TheDailyShow]

The viral sensation #PANDUMBIC

[Bob Casey @SenBobCasey]

Right now in America, it is easier to get an AR-15 than a test kit for COVID-19.

[Anbu Neelamegam @anbs]

Zoom is the new verb for video conference! Let's Zoom! @zoom_us

[Michael Batnick @michaelbatnick]

It happened in just 19 days. Officially the fastest bear market ever.

https://t.co/7zdjJWcPow

[Anbu Neelamegam @anbs]

@saxena_puru Puru...saw this just now...not sure how serious this is...thought to share: https://t.co/9C9M3WM0Rx

[Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart]

Stunning chart.

The global airline industry is poised to have the worst year in history... worse than 2001 and the financial crisis https://t.co/6GDk8uervs