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Ralph Daloisio
on More VCs Investing in Insurance Startups as Lending Fades
“Sector rotation in FinTech, from “older” online lending startups and into the “newer” InsurTech ones. Antiquated systems with cryptic explanations of coverage priced like “dark pools” of risk delivered by conflicted agents and supported by clunky websites and ill-informed customer reps wrapped in regulations that produce volumes of opacity around the product = primo recipe for disruption. ”
Corey Quinn
on AT&T CTO Says Move to White Boxes a ‘Wake-Up Call’
“This should serve as a wake-up call to vendors: If you’re able to decouple yourself from the hardware and provide software based options that work, you start to have a cloud story. At that point, it becomes far cheaper to build with commodity hardware and over-provision, versus paying top dollar for vendor kit.”
Matt MacInnis
on Volatile Cryptocurrencies Hit ICO Market
“We don’t “need” new cryptocurrencies, but it’s better if there are more, provided you believe that distributed ledgers are going to power entire swathes of a new economic reality. These are not Ponzi schemes in any real sense. But they are assets being purchased on a purely speculative basis, and as such, many (most?) will end up either worthless or entirely illiquid.”
Laura Kelso
on Amazon Considering New Cloud Service to Combat Google
“Amazon is really great at making hundreds of millions of dollars off of open source projects. Is single-click access to tools like Kubernetes worth getting locked into AWS and paying the Amazon tax? I talk to the system architects and IT infrastructure and operations professionals at enterprise companies. They want cloud portability and complete control of their data.”
Babar Khan Javed
on Uber’s Middle East Goals Tested by Local Rival
“In the MENA region, locals gravitate towards Careem as it represents a regional (Muslim) success story and the stakeholders (drivers and passengers) are engaged via Careem’s localised campaigns to “be part of something greater” and play a role in “showing the West what we are made of.””
Mars Cyrillo
on Amazon Considering New Cloud Service to Combat Google
“That’s the inflection point some Googlers in the cloud team may have been expecting. Companies will soon take the best out of each cloud and move applications around depending on their business goals and pricing advantages tied to the application profiles. It will probably take longer for the machine learning advantage to play out for Google.”