Who is Nnamdi?

Robinhood Traders are Last to the Party

Robinhood traders get fleeced not by HFTs front-running milliseconds before their order hits but by other retail investors, days earlier.

There's Nothing Magical about the SaaS Magic Number

Magic number is a bad metric. Sales and marketing drives much less revenue than this not-so-magical number implies

Product-Market Fit is Lindy

The longer you search for product-market fit, the less likely you will find it.

Why We Will Never Have Enough Software Developers

Developers are dropping out of the profession in large numbers

Enterprise Software Monetization is Fat-Tailed

In enterprise software, the "average" customer is a meaningless concept. Instead, focus on the tails.

Research

An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition (Paper Explained)

Large Transformer trained on large datasets outperform CNN-based architectures and achieve state of the art results on image recognition tasks

Research

Pre-training via Paraphrasing (Paper Explained)

Transformer model pre-trained on document retrieval and reconstruction performs well on both fine-tuned and zero-shot downstream tasks

Top Three Strategic Priorities of Developer Productivity Startups

What's top of mind for developer productivity leaders

Six Trends Shaping Developer Productivity

We interviewed developer productivity leaders. Here's what they said.

Why Don't VCs Index Invest?

VCs are picky, not because they have so many options but because they have so few.

The Value of College May Be Negative for the COVID Generation

You might think the value of a college degree has been increasing. You would be wrong.

Do College Degrees Matter for Software Engineers? Maybe

Do college-educated developers earn more? Yes, but less than you might think

Pandemiconomics: Viral Volatility

How the virus rocked stocks

Byron Deeter and Jason Lemkin on the State of VC and the Cloud

When to raise capital, what to expect from VCs, and the "new normal"

Remote Software Developers Earn 22% More Than Non-Remote Developers

Working remote even just a few days per month leads to higher pay

How Age, Race, and Gender Affect Software Engineering Pay

Progress on narrowing pay gaps among software developers

The Highest-Paid Software Engineers: 2020 Edition

Engineers are the basic economic unit of modern software development. The software production function depends critically on developer productivity and compensation. And yet software engineering pay remains poorly understood.

How Uber and Lyft Dominated Ridesharing By Seeing Red Where Others Saw Blue

A quick visit to the Red Sea

Pattern Matching is Dead. Long Live People Matching

Venture capital is changing — for the better

High Retention = High Volatility

Why SaaS revenue retention is a double-edge sword

Waitlists are a Vanity Metric

Waitlists, registered users, and other cumulative measures better measure the size of your pride than the size of your business

How to Conquer Cohort Analysis With a Powerful Clinical Research Tool

Understanding cohort performance is critical for modern, high-velocity businesses, especially those with subscription or recurring revenue models. In SaaS or consumer subscription settings, small changes in churn can radically impact revenue growth. Product

Entrepreneur's Ruin, or How Not to Go Bust

Managing risk is hard work. In evaluating potential opportunities, leaders must consider both probability (the odds of success) and criticality (the importance of success). We can arrange these opportunities on a matrix, with

Meet Dev, the Highest-Paid Software Developer in America

Note: You can find this analysis updated for 2020 here. Dev fell in love with code at a young age. He graduated from college with an engineering degree and then joined the Navy

The Growth-Share Matrix of Software Development

Human capital is our greatest asset. Like financial capital, the all-powerful force of compound growth means that a small difference in the rate of skill acquisition over time can lead to massive differences

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