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You Don’t Need To Be An Engineering Genius To Start A Billion-Dollar Company

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” Furthermore, he wrote, “back in 1993 we had to buy and continue to pay for maintenance on everything we needed just to build our service—operating systems, compilers, web servers, application servers, databases. You name it.” ” Developers Don’t Get Cheaper. The Rise Of The Average Developer.

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Customer Data Platforms: The Next Big Shift in SaaS Marketing Stacks?

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launched a contact management software. 7 years later, in 1993, Tom Siebel thought that Oracle (the company where he was employed) could have sold the internal sales application as a standalone product. This brings a lot of new challenges also for people who are not directly involved in software engineering.