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Partner @InsightPartners | Formerly: Product @datadoghq | Optimistic about the future.

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Michael Yamnitsky
8 months
Most important deal I will ever close (sorry founders, 🩷 you all)
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Michael Yamnitsky
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Excited to share I joined @insightpartners as a MD, working w/ @teddiew , @lonnej , @bfieds , @gkm1 , @liadagmon , @nikhilsachdev + many more. If you are a founder working on a developer-driven business (or plan to in the near future), please get in touch! DMs open :).
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Michael Yamnitsky
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My dad @BorisYamnitsky came to this country in the late 70s with $100 in his wallet. He slept in his car through grad school before “upgrading” to a couch working the overnight shift at a psychiatric hospital. He then met my mom, raised a family of 4 kids, and founded
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Michael Yamnitsky
10 months
@shaig This is not a peaceful protest. This is vandalism. Why isn’t this man arrested @NYPDChiefOfDept ?
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Michael Yamnitsky
6 years
Some (not so) brief thoughts on the future of enterprise tech (part II):
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Michael Yamnitsky
10 months
We surpassed our goal to match $1M in donations. Thanks to all who contributed, your generosity will be remembered.
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Michael Yamnitsky
11 months
Donate alongside @insightpartners to 🇮🇱 charities and we will match up to $1M:
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Proud of my friends and colleagues @edsim @etdurbin @shomikghosh21 for showing their support for 🇮🇱 @UnitedHatzalah .
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boldstart ventures
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Our hearts and prayers are with the people of Israel, and we unequivocally condemn the terrorist attacks against unarmed civilians. We stand by our founders, friends, and people of Israel during these tragic times. Please join us in contributing to United Hatzalah to support...
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Huge congrats @bsideup @ealeyner @mtremsal @aleixmorgadas on reaching public beta for #testcontainerscloud ! If you write in #java , @go , #.net, or #node .js try it out for your unit tests today: .
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Is it weird I get excited by vintage conference swag? This #eBPF throweback courtesy of @anemat @chkk_io #KubeCon2023
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Michael Yamnitsky
8 years
Some thoughts on the recent cybersecurity M&A swarm via @Forbes
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Michael Yamnitsky
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1/ The future of compute = more delightful, tailored user experiences. 🧵 below on how next-gen clouds are changing the way developers will consume compute.
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Michael Yamnitsky
9 months
We're very excited @Docker and @AtomicJarInc are teaming to build an end-to-end build, test, and run container platform for customers around the world. Congrats @bsideup @ealeyner @mtremsal @scottcjohnston @webbstevens
@Docker
Docker: Build 39X Faster
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. @TechCrunch just broke the news. We’ve acquired @AtomicJarInc and the team is joining Docker! We are sharpening our focus on DevX and our commitment to the open source community is stronger than ever before with the addition of @Testcontainers .
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My parents, like so many of their generation, fled the oppression of communist Ukraine and Russia to give us a better future. Seeing demonstrations advocating for the system they fled from is very sad. Particularly on Veterans Day in my home town. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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10 months
If @OpenAI is the new AWS, search for the new @datadoghq is on 🫡
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Michael Yamnitsky
2 years
Here’s @deadprogram showing off his gopherbot powered by @TinyGolang @webassembly I want one
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Congrats to my lifelong friends @fendien @jerseejess for 10-years building @Work_Bench . Cant wait to see what the next 10 years bring. Cc. OG WB crew @mickey_graham @steph_manning07 @V1P1N @laurelwoerner 💪
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Michael Yamnitsky
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the homie @V1P1N in Forbes 30 Under 30 cc. @Work_Bench #IKnewHimBeforeHeWasFamous
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Michael Yamnitsky
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To founders, colleagues, and co-investors these last few days... I'm proud of how everyone stood up in the face of adversity. You all rock.
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Michael Yamnitsky
2 years
Woohoo @apenwarr @davidcrawshaw . We're so excited to partner up! Time to get to 🧑‍🏭👩‍💼🧑‍🌾
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🎉We raised $100M USD in our Series B financing. Thank you to @CRV and @insightpartners for leading this round, and to our community for getting us to where we are today!
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8 years
Some @Work_Bench thoughts for @Forbes on the rising #Phoenix in cybersecurity
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Michael Yamnitsky
7 years
Spotted at the Rosewood...
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Michael Yamnitsky
2 years
Excited to back @AtomicJarInc team alongside @Boldstartvc !
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AtomicJar
2 years
We are happy to announce our $25M Series A led by @insightpartners and to launch the public beta for . It’s never been easier to try the @testcontainers experience of testing with real dependencies and to ship with confidence 🚀🥳
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Michael Yamnitsky
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Go @dialpadhq ! >> proud investor and supporter @Work_Bench
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Michael Yamnitsky
2 years
me: "what's the current state of the product? founder: "it works"
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Michael Yamnitsky
2 years
This is just dumb easy 🤯🤯🤯 if you run a cloud account, you gotta try this out. congrats @bradfitz @MayaKaczorowski @apenwarr @davidcrawshaw total game changer
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Brad Fitzpatrick 🌻
2 years
We made a thing: Таilscale SSH. We put an SSH server in the @Tailscale tailscaled process that integrates w/ Tailscale auth (authN+authZ) so you don't need SSH keys. And works alongside any existing SSH server on your machine. Props to @maisem_ali for doing the hard parts! 😅
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Michael Yamnitsky
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NYC AI luminaries with a side of burrata cheese cc. @scottsnews @MackeyCraven @V1P1N @Work_Bench @OpenViewVenture
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Fun times chatting open-source biz models and fundraising w/ @kelseyhightower @aneel @meganreyno at @KubeCon_ @CloudNativeFdn in Paris. If you’re a builder and want to chat over ☕️ and 🍰🥐 please DM!
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Michael Yamnitsky
8 years
We're super excited @Work_Bench to partner with @DennisMortensen and the @xdotai team! Huge milestone, many to come!
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Yuliya Chernova
8 years
Would office workers trust AI to maintain polite conversation on their behalf w/ clients & bosses? @xdotai bets yes
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Michael Yamnitsky
9 years
[ #Throwback ] Our thoughts @Work_Bench on how #AI will spark the next wave of consumerization of IT
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Michael Yamnitsky
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@wolfejosh Doesn’t take a @Penn degree to be a decent human being 😩😖
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Michael Yamnitsky
1 year
1/ Everyone's prioritizing efficient growth. Can PLG help? @EJP350 and I share the framework we use @insightpartners to help companies decide how to apply different PLG strategies. More in 🧵...
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Michael Yamnitsky
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Well done @joshk and team @firstround .
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There are no words that can adequately capture the profound sadness of the past few days. Our hearts are heavy — and with the people of Israel. The terrorist attacks by Hamas this past weekend were barbaric, and the loss of innocent lives is utterly devastating. There is no
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Michael Yamnitsky
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@davidu @darian314 Agree shocked this happened inbounds. A scary reminder to always be prepared.
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Michael Yamnitsky
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The actual arena…
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Michael Yamnitsky
8 years
Building a startup in NYC? You'd be a fool not to apply.
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Alex Iskold | 2048.vc
8 years
Winter is Coming: Applications for next @techstars NYC class close on Oct 15. Apply to accelerate your startup =>
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Incredibly diverse co's and engaging founders at @techstars NYC >> congrats @alexiskold @kjsnyc for another successful demo day
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Michael Yamnitsky
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. @upskillio 's rebranding in full effect >> @BrianBallard723 @ChrisHoyt1 are the robin hoods of IoT for the people!
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Michael Yamnitsky
6 years
Nice ink @ron_miller . Thanks for the digging in!
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TechCrunch
6 years
Work-Bench enterprise report predicts end of SaaS could be coming by @ron_miller
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Michael Yamnitsky
9 months
Huge problem not enough folks are talking about.
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Robby
9 months
Is your company ready for AI-powered phishing attacks?🧐 Since the launch of ChatGPT, there has been a 13x increase in phishing emails🤯 We look at this new wave of phishing attacks, the current anti-phishing landscape & opportunities for startups👇
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Michael Yamnitsky
2 years
Who's in Miami this coming week? HMU.
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Michael Yamnitsky
10 months
Piggybacking @fendien . @gkm1 and I will be there @insightpartners Cant wait to see everyone 🫡
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Jonathan Lehr
10 months
Getting excited for @AWSreInvent coming up Who's going this year? I'll be there with @kelleymak and @DanielChesley repping @Work_Bench
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Michael Yamnitsky
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"software will be location agnostic" , nice ink @GrantM . Something a few of us in venture community have been thinking about cc. @ttunguz
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Michael Yamnitsky
2 years
Awesome post @reneeshah123 ! You should check out the wasm work @ericsimons40 @iamalbertpai @stackblitz are doing in the cloud-IDE space.
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Renee Shah
2 years
For any emerging technology, the early battle is figuring out how and why to use it. I sought to answer how and why people are using WebAssembly, and I got 18 great answers. See my post where 18 startup leaders discuss why they chose to build with Wasm!
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Michael Yamnitsky
9 years
Killer class! Glad to see ML startups + my buddy @kobrien82 w/ @greathorn_inc make it into @techstars
@alexiskold
Alex Iskold | 2048.vc
9 years
Meet @techstars NYC Fall 2015 class: http://t.co/oBggpPDzwM
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Michael Yamnitsky
7 years
yeah @jerseejess !!!
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Jonathan Lehr
7 years
Cool to see @jerseejess on this list of "10 women shaping NYC venture capital" 💯 cc @Work_Bench
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Michael Yamnitsky
8 years
Something that's not so obvious about New York
@fendien
Jonathan Lehr
8 years
7/ + an early wave of highly technical co's fully HQ here @cockroachdb , @ActionIQinc ( @targyros ), @socureme & @0xCD03 ( @0xF390 @nullisnt0 )
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Michael Yamnitsky
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1/ What does usage-based pricing mean? If no one uses the product, there is no revenue. To me, usage-based pricing is conflated with successful companies who have identified the right unit of value for customers, which has many forms.
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Michael Yamnitsky
9 months
The many “micro-expressions” of antisemitism….
@BillAckman
Bill Ackman
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The presidents of @Harvard , @MIT , and @Penn were all asked the following question under oath at today’s congressional hearing on antisemitism: Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate [your university’s] code of conduct or rules regarding bullying or harassment? The
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Michael Yamnitsky
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So excited that @CockroachDB is budding into an enterprise company hiring top talent and helping some of the largest companies battle-proof their databases for a multi-cloud future
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Michael Yamnitsky
10 months
@KTmBoyle checking in 🫡
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Michael Yamnitsky
9 years
Great chatting up with @peteryared @ThufirHawat >> @sapho is on to something very, very big
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Michael Yamnitsky
8 years
There's the bot wars than there's @xdotai >> @DennisMortensen presenting at BNY Mellon CTO event earlier today
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Michael Yamnitsky
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Great way to start a Thursday! I feel the same. Very blessed to work with some of the kindest and smartest people out there.
@technosophos
Matt Butcher @FermyonTech
10 months
Y’all, I feel so privileged to know so many wonderful people.
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Michael Yamnitsky
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An apology starts with “I’m sorry” and shows some heart. When I was at @Wharton we were taught that human empathy and vulnerability were a cornerstone of leadership.
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Scott Kupor
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This will make a great case study for all of the @Wharton MBAs on how not to do crisis comms - follow-up a disastrous day of Congressional testimony by reading from a teleprompter and displaying a complete lack of empathy and authenticity.
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Michael Yamnitsky
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🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 for @itamar_mar and the many others tech founders leaving their families and teams to protect 🇮🇱. Hear his story:
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This is an awesome program for early-stage startups in NYC
@alexiskold
Alex Iskold | 2048.vc
9 years
Accelerate your startup. Apply to @techstars NYC fall session. http://t.co/bEu90WeeAF. Deadline is June 28th. http://t.co/p6DuugJUce
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Michael Yamnitsky
7 years
Boom! congrats guys @cockroachdb
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CockroachDB
7 years
Introducing CockroachDB 1.0 - the #ProductionReady , cloud-native, distributed SQL database. Learn more:
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Michael Yamnitsky
6 years
I second this one 👇
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Stephanie Manning Cohen
6 years
Congrats to @jerseejess and @fendien on the second @Work_Bench fund 🎉 Can’t wait to see WB continue to grow it’s portfolio and the #nextgenterprise community in NYC 🚀
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Michael Yamnitsky
7 years
Great Q1 for enterprise tech funding >> back on the upward track! good stuff @mickey_graham
@TechCrunch
TechCrunch
7 years
Breaking records, enterprise fundings are up nearly 80% in Q1 2017 by @mickey_graham
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Michael Yamnitsky
1 year
. @spinframework , KVs, #SQLite w/ vectorDB extension, #wasm optimized GPUs = fast, delightful experience for building AI enterprise apps @fermyontech x @tursodatabase 🤝
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Fermyon
1 year
We’re streaming live from Day 2 of Civo Navigate 🤩
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Michael Yamnitsky
1 year
Agree vehemently. Every company has a #GenAI strategy but ask any CISO what keeps them up at night… Unfortunately winter is coming…
@bernhardsson
Erik Bernhardsson
1 year
Very bullish on AI but it feels like the near term risks are underdiscussed vs long term doom. Are we ready for 10x better phishing, social media misinformation bots, test cheating, killer drones etc?
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Michael Yamnitsky
10 months
Very excited to see this announcement! @nilslice @dylibso partnering with @datadoghq to make production server-side #wasm apps a reality
@nilslice
steve.wasm
10 months
Very excited to see our solution made available to @datadoghq customers directly. One step closer to bring #WebAssembly into production environments everywhere!
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Michael Yamnitsky
7 years
Like @MuleSoft in API MGMT, @Netskope is the last one standing in CASB. Guess it's go big or go home.
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Michael Yamnitsky
8 years
Why is IoT taking the long road? Nice explanation by @mattturck
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Michael Yamnitsky
10 months
It’s so sad to see students at top US schools ostracize their Jewish peers in the name of “activism.”
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Michael Yamnitsky
7 years
Data engineering friends, @MerlonTweets is an AI company that actually does something real 🙃 and is hiring. DM me please!
@bradfordcross
bradford cross
7 years
looking for VP eng and chief scientist to stop money laundering with AI. know any awesome technical leaders in NYC?
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Michael Yamnitsky
7 years
This is pure gold
@bradfordcross
bradford cross
7 years
Vertical AI: Solve massive and timely industry problems with a team that blends AI and Subject Matter Expertise
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Michael Yamnitsky
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@alanaagoyal Think this approach is impossible. Have to build a real crm and fight the good fight. I like what @attio is doing, I’d also love to see something dev-friendly where crm is a plug-in to your production data.
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Michael Yamnitsky
8 years
Nerding out on probabilistic programming at @robmay AI dinner series
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Michael Yamnitsky
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. @fermyontech is architected for sub-millisecond cold starts and high-volume time-slicing of compute instances which has proven to alter compute densities by a factor of 30x. Extending this runtime profile to GPUs makes Fermyon Cloud the fastest AI inferencing infrastructure
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Fermyon
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We are excited to announce Fermyon Serverless AI, an AI inferencing service. This is now available on Fermyon Cloud’s free tier, showcasing Fermyon’s supersonic startup time for AI inferencing with LLMs.
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Michael Yamnitsky
9 years
@hmmickman Would love to connect with you. We invest in DevOps startups and run programming for corporate IT execs to engage @Work_Bench
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Michael Yamnitsky
9 years
Must read for IT infra pros just starting to look at containers
@fendien
Jonathan Lehr
9 years
Lots of great insights by @V1P1N on enterprise use cases for containers. Nice path to get going. #TectonicSummit
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Michael Yamnitsky
7 years
Bravo @Eades50 + team >> product review of @varmournetworks demonstrates central mgmt needs for microsegmentation
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@Redpoint
Redpoint
11 months
We were horrified by the news and footage coming out of Israel this weekend, due to the barbaric terrorist attack by Hamas, which continues to have a reverberating impact in the region and around the world. To our founders, friends, the people of Israel, and Jewish communities
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Michael Yamnitsky
10 years
Brands/devs looking partner with other apps should check out @trywildcard @deeplinkme @URX @button
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Michael Yamnitsky
4 years
amazing to see more signals of performance and security coming together... congrats @zanelackey @AMPeters06
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Michael Yamnitsky
8 years
Huge shout out to my buddy @lennypruss joining the partnership @AmplifyPartners w/ @dhaliwas @dauber
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Michael Yamnitsky
7 years
Little glimpse into Systems Of Intelligence reshaping security sector through lens of our portco @varmournetworks
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Michael Yamnitsky
9 years
Follow up piece on why startups have are ahead of the game in #AI #ML >> thanks for the opportunity @TechCrunch
@TechCrunch
TechCrunch
9 years
Why Startups Will Dominate The AI-Powered Apps Landscape by @ItsYamnitsky
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Michael Yamnitsky
8 years
Bring the cast of @SiliconHBO to @Work_Bench for a Q&A. Yes, we’re looking at you @nottjmiller : #siliconvalleytonyc
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Michael Yamnitsky
8 years
It's @cnnbrk the end of scheduling meetings is here cc. @DennisMortensen @Alexpoon06
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Michael Yamnitsky
8 years
Our portcos @Work_Bench are all "cool kids" according to @Gartner_inc >> congrats @Eades50 , @forrester Wave™ is next
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Michael Yamnitsky
9 years
M1 Summit NYC 2015 #M1SummitNYC2015 http://t.co/7smBy1Sfhk >> pretty awesome line-up
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Michael Yamnitsky
8 years
Fun strata dinner tonight @Work_Bench @AmplifyPartners
@Work_Bench
Work-Bench
8 years
Kicking off our @AmplifyPartners & @Work_Bench #StrataHadoop World Drinks & Dinner!
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Michael Yamnitsky
8 years
We go from real happy face to real serious face when it comes to securing the cloud at @Work_Bench
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Michael Yamnitsky
9 years
Celebrating the homie @shteegy joining @work_bench portco @switchco (@ Sushi Nakazawa in New York, NY)
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Michael Yamnitsky
9 years
Great insight into the trade-offs startups need to make in enterprise deal-making
@Work_Bench
Work-Bench
9 years
An Insider’s Guide to Enterprise Sales Contracts, by @dfutterlaw of @mccarterenglish - http://t.co/J4ytF0zlE6 http://t.co/KutmY17YDs
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Michael Yamnitsky
5 months
Packed room this afternoon! Exciting to see so many folks in the cloud native community eager to build new companies.
@meganreyno
Megan Reynolds 👩‍💻
5 months
At KubeCon in Paris? I’m on stage with @kelseyhightower @aneel @ItsYamnitsky in 30mins at the StartupFest discussing the good the bad and the ugly of open source, the VC perspective… 🤓 come join us!
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