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What I'm Interested In, April 2020
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What I'm Interested In, April 2020

Aashay Sanghvi
Apr 10, 2020
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I hope everyone is staying safe and healthy. I continue to remain opportunistic in my approach with a bottoms-up lens, but every time I share specific ideas, I end up meeting new people with similar interests. So, here’s a non-exhaustive list of ideas I’m currently researching and exploring.

  • Programming software robots. Use cases in infrastructure orchestration and biology.

  • Open source data protection and management. Focus on data migrations, replications, and disaster recovery. Even the new entrants in this old-school market (Rubrik and Clumio) have top-down strategies. Airbnb’s ReAir is interesting.

  • How do metrics become a first-class citizen in an organization? Keep data analysts and analytics teams as the last line of defense, and put BI environments in operators hands. Sisu is cool.

  • Automation tools for the help desk (IT, HR, customer service). Come at ServiceNow from the bottom up.

  • Kubernetes security. One of the biggest holes in this emerging ecosystem. Isovalent and Tigera take a network-centric approach.

  • What’s the economic complement to Ironclad? As more organizations use this digital contracting platform, what other opportunities open up in legal operations?

  • Developer hubs and extensibility. Make documentation, developer on-boarding, serverless functionality, testing dead simple for your API. Sperandio has some thoughts.

  • Linear for finance departments. Give startups ways to manage strategic planning with macros, templates, collaborative features, an intuitive interface & open platform.

  • Observability / monitoring pipelines for data science. Shoutout to Paari. Ultimately, could be a feature within a platform like Deepnote.

  • Fraud detection for marketplaces. They’re as complex as ever (B2B, cross-border, financial services integrated) — how can you give fraud teams maximum visibility into every transaction?

P.S. Stay on the lookout for a similar project in the near future I’m working on with my friend Mario Gabriele.

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Antoine Buteau
Jun 28, 2020

Looks like Runway https://a16z.com/2020/06/25/investing-in-runway/ will be the Linear for finance departments!

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Tjip Sugijoto
Writes Tjip’s Newsletter ·Apr 12, 2020

Any references on the fraud detection so far?

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