EC Column

Joshua Wöhle Contributor Joshua Wöhle is CEO at Mindstone, transforming daily learning from articles, podcasts, and videos into a quantifiable skills profile, much like LinkedIn. He personalizes your learning experience but also aligns it with your career goals or your company's objectives, making every learning moment count. My career is rooted in the tech industry, but the lessons learned there are universally applicable across all sectors. Tech has…

Michelle Moon Contributor Michelle Moon is a principal at Sorenson Capital, where she invests in early-stage B2B software companies that help enterprises harness the power of data and analytics. Construction often gets a bad rep as one of the “dinosaur” industries. This is not entirely unwarranted: Productivity growth in the sector averaged just 1% over the past 20 years versus 2.8% for other industries. Nonetheless, having spoken with many developers,…

Of all enterprise departments, product and engineering spend by far the most on AI technology. Doing so effectively stands to generate huge value — developers can complete certain tasks up to 50% faster with generative AI, according to McKinsey. But that’s not as easy as just throwing money at AI and hoping for the best. Enterprises need to understand how much to budget into AI tools, how to weigh the benefits of AI versus new recruits, and how to ensure their training is on point. A recent…

Richard Marcus Contributor Richard Marcus is the head of information security at AuditBoard. Many have described 2023 as the year of AI, and the term made several “word of the year” lists. While it has positively impacted productivity and efficiency in the workplace, AI has also presented a number of emerging risks for businesses. For example, a recent Harris Poll survey commissioned by AuditBoard revealed that roughly half of employed Americans (51%)…

Noor Siddiqui Contributor Noor Siddiqui, a Thiel Fellow and Stanford-trained computer scientist, is the CEO and founder of Orchid. Moonshot startups, those daring ideas that promise to reshape our world, are inherently about venturing into uncharted territory, giving us new superpowers and creating new markets. They’re high stakes, high reward, and, more often than not, deeply technical. As someone who navigates these waters, I see firsthand that when…

Christine Edmonds Contributor Christine Edmonds is a General Partner at ICONIQ Growth. She was the founding member and now leads the ICONIQ Growth Analytics team, supporting our portfolio companies with quantitatively backed advisory and thought leadership. Christine also helps oversee internal applications of data analytics to support and enable our broader investing platform. Building a high-growth SaaS company is never easy, but founders who are feeling like the job is…

Rodrigo Fernandes Contributor Rodrigo Fernandes is a professor at Fundação Dom Cabral and is the CFO at Pingback, a Brazilian startup that provides a comprehensive solution for digital creators. Daniel McCarthy Contributor Daniel McCarthy is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at Emory University's Goizueta School of Business and co-founder of Theta, a predictive customer analytics firm. Until recently, it was widely accepted…

Erik Wikander Contributor Erik Wikander is the CEO and co-founder of Zupyak, a content marketing platform designed for startups, simplifying the process of creating SEO-optimized marketing content through generative AI. Creating a startup without a fixed idea is like building a startup backward. But that’s precisely how our startup, Zupyak, unfolded — and it worked. Our journey began when my co-founder, Qi Cao, was exploring various startup ideas. The one…

Chaitra Vedullapalli Contributor Chaitra Vedullapalli is the co-founder and CMO of Meylah and the president of Women in Cloud. With tech and leadership experience spanning over 26 years, Chaitra has led ecosystem growth and optimization to drive billion-dollar expansions for both Microsoft and Oracle. When it comes to maintaining the health of your technology startup and/or services business, especially in times of uncertainty, there is no lifeline more powerful than qualified…

David DeSanto Contributor David DeSanto is the chief product officer at GitLab Inc., where he leads GitLab’s product division to define and execute GitLab's product vision and roadmap. David is responsible for ensuring the company builds, ships, and supports the platform that reinforces GitLab's leadership in the DevSecOps platform market. AI’s role in software development is reaching a pivotal moment — one that will compel organizations and their…