Salesforce announces new AI offerings for marketing, commerce specialists
Customer relationship management company Salesforce last week launched two new generative artificial intelligence (AI) product offerings – Marketing GPT and Commerce GPT – at its Connections sales conference . Stephen Hammond, executive vice president (EVP) and general manager (GM) of Salesforce’s marketing cloud, announced the Marketing GPT platform, which he
Read morePaid acquisition: The #1 way to find product-market fit
Jonathan Martinez Contributor Share on Twitter Jonathan Martinez is a former YouTuber, UC Berkeley alum and growth marketing nerd who's helped scale Uber, Postmates, Chime and various startups. More posts by this contributor Paid acquisition: The #1 way to find product-market fit CRO: Why startups should prioritize conversion rate optimization
Read moreChris’ Corner: Shifting
So many interesting little nuggets I’ve saved up for you this week! Let’s do it. Jehl’s Law of Web Performance: A website should load before you can say “cumulative layout shift” lol I love that. Stoyan calculated it to be 1.722 seconds. Speaking of layout shifts, did you know the
Read moreSeven Months Into Open Source And Counting
Random notes about the journey so farImage from adobe.comEngineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.— Scott AdamsWhen asked why I quit a full-time job and devoted all my energy to an open-source project, I gave inconsistent answers: an intended gap period
Read moreApple M2 Ultra Mac Studio: Same shell, more firepower
“This completes the transition to Apple silicon,” Senior Vice President of Hardware Engineering John Ternus noted during last week’s WWDC keynote. Apple never promised the process would happen overnight. At the 2020 event, CEO Tim Cook promised a two-year transitionary period. The company missed the deadline by a year, but
Read moreGitHub’s Magic Tools — GitHub CLI, API, and JavaScript
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Read moreUnleashing Engineering Excellence: Proven Methods to Tackle Tech Debt and Supercharge Your Team
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Read moreInvestigating the I/O Monad in Go
From concepts to implementationPhoto by Marat Gilyadzinov on UnsplashIn this article, we will continue our investigation of applying functional programming concepts to Go. While in the previous article, we concentrated on pure functions, we will dive into the ideas and implementation behind effectful functions.Guiding PrinciplesLet’s recap some of the guiding principles.Pure
Read moreCava boosts its IPO price range, highlighting appetite for growth stories
How about we kick off the week with some good news? This morning, American fast-casual restaurant chain Cava raised its IPO price range from $17-$19 per share to $19-$20 per share. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Read it every morning on TechCrunch+ or get The Exchange newsletter every
Read moreMeta open sources an AI-powered music generator
Not to be outdone by Google, Meta has released its own AI-powered music generator — and, unlike Google, made it available in open source. Called MusicGen, Meta’s music-generating tool — a demo of which can be found here — can turn a text description (e.g. “An ’80s driving pop song
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