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Madrona’s Investment Themes for 2020 and Beyond
- Tim Porter and S. Somasegar
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March 14, 2017
Every year in March, Madrona wraps up what happened in 2016 and we sit down with our investors to talk about our business – the business of finding and growing the next big Seattle companies. First and foremost, our strategy is to back the best entrepreneurs in the Pacific… READ MORE
The Seattle Times 5/11/16 – Chances are the entity managing your favorite smartphone app or Internet service isn’t a person.
Algorithms are setting the price of your airline ticket and hailing your Uber driver. They’re placing the vast majority of stock-market trades.
And we’re only at the beginning of a transition that is… READ MORE
In the age of Big Data, algorithms give companies a competitive advantage. Today’s most important technology companies all have algorithmic intelligence built into the core of their product: Google Search, Facebook News Feed, Amazon’s and Netflix’s recommendation engines.
“Data is inherently dumb,” Peter Sondergaard, senior vice president at Gartner and… READ MORE