Author: By Clare Christopher

Feed: Sand Hill Group. Author: Clare Christopher. The 2022 C.K. Prahalad Award was given to two co-winners, Shopify Sustainability Fund and Stripe Climate, recognizing their groundbreaking efforts to catalyze a market for carbon removal solutions. The awards were announced in connection with the 2022 CEF Annual Leadership Retreat, attended by senior executives representing CEF member companies with combined revenues of $4 trillion. Here is Yahoo Finance’s coverage of the news. On Shopify Shopify, a leading provider of essential internet infrastructure for commerce and one of the largest corporate buyers of long-term carbon removal, launched its Sustainability Fund in September 2019 ... Read More

Feed: Sand Hill Group. Author: Clare Christopher. Following his role as research director and instructor of fintech at Creighton University, San Francisco-based economist, Jeffrey Milewski co-founded the non-profit Global Income Coin. The crypto company aims to provide a universal basic income of $1 to any person worldwide. Initial funding of $2 million is from a personal donation of Sid Sijbrandij (co-founder and CEO of GitLab Inc.). M.R. Rangaswami: Why did you co-found a nonprofit that wants to utilize crypto as a way to provide universal basic income worldwide?  Jeffrey Milewski: I’m inspired by the potential of crypto to make a ... Read More

Feed: Sand Hill Group. Author: Clare Christopher. Bikram Gupta Sarma There is a common saying that has been echoed by many CEOs that “it is lonely at the top”. In an interview in 2016, five years after taking over as CEO from Steve Jobs, Tim Cook clarified that the problems that leaders face is not loneliness, but isolation. Technology CEOs experience this isolation in their roles as they go about their daily work.  All of them are extremely successful and got to this position because they were better than others, but do they still feel anxieties that they are isolated ... Read More

Feed: Sand Hill Group. Author: Clare Christopher. Gaurav Bhasin, Managing Director, Allied Advisers Inflation has surged in the US economy in recent months at 8.5% to its highest level in 40 years and impacted the business environment across practically every industry. Public and Private technology companies in particular have seen their valuations impacted. Allied Advisers developed this article to provide insights into how inflation impacts technology company valuations and what business executives can do to navigate this choppy environment and suggestions to sustain growth momentum and earnings despite the inflation headwinds. The inflation rate in the United States has swung from ... Read More

Feed: Sand Hill Group. Author: Clare Christopher. The SEG SaaS Index is a list of publicly traded companies that they have determined to be SaaS businesses (i.e., they primarily offer solutions via the cloud and may have a subscription or transaction-based pricing model). In 1Q22 the median growth rate for the SEG SaaS Index reached 28.5%, with nearly a third of SaaS companies experiencing a growth rate of 40% or more. Note: this upward trend is also a result of more high-growth companies added to the Index. Here are five highlight updates from the 2022 Q1 Report. I) Due to ... Read More

Feed: Sand Hill Group. Author: Clare Christopher. “It’s finding talent that’s the problem.” Sound familiar? The past two years have accelerated the job demands that were already presenting themselves in Traditional IT and Digital IT workforce. What Ravature has leveraged is their “Talent as a Service” or TaaS. CEO, Ashwin Bharath and his teams are finding, hiring, and developing technology talent for an organization’s specific requirements so talent can be successful contributors from day one. Training over 19,000 software engineers in 55 technical disciplines and deploying them to blue-chip companies throughout the world, Ashwin had some inspiring perspectives on the ... Read More

Feed: Sand Hill Group. Author: Clare Christopher. Siddharth “Sid” Lunawat is CEO and co-founder of Hammoq Inc., a company that automates the ecommerce process for returned item resale and used goods. In the face of an exploding market for overstocked, returned and used goods, where the fashion resale market alone is expected to reach $26 billion in 2022, Hammoq is reimaging “recommerce.” By using artificial intelligence and machine learning to close the labor gap challenge, Hammoq is overcoming industry barriers which have traditionally limited the product identification, valuation and marketplace listing process. M.R. Rangaswami: What is recommerce and how is ... Read More

Feed: Sand Hill Group. Author: Clare Christopher. As the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January sparked a new wave of autonomous vehicles (AVs) coming to the automotive market in the next few years, much focus as of late has been on the technology of these vehicles themselves. However, the technology embedded in road infrastructure is also beginning to see more conversation between service providers and municipalities.  With advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and 5G network connectivity, smart-road infrastructure technology offers the promise of being added to many different roads, bridges, and other transit systems across the U.S. in hopes of ... Read More

Feed: Sand Hill Group. Author: Clare Christopher. In a time where many companies have had to rapidly embrace new ways to work from anywhere – from remote and home offices to in the office and on the road, Nerdio has helped to more securely and efficiently deliver user workspaces from the cloud.  Working remote isn’t new for Co-Founder Vadim, or his team at Nerdio. In fact, the company has a fully remote workforce with employees around the world putting its technology to work internally just as its customers do. Today, Nerdio has more than two million users across its product ... Read More

Feed: Sand Hill Group. Author: Clare Christopher. Rashida Salahuddin, President & CEO, The Corporate Citizenship Project The need for more corporate responsibility has evolved for today’s corporations and the next generation of business leaders in the form of environmental, social and governance (ESG). Investors, activists, and regulators are now requiring proactive, community-structured commitment and accountability that is designed to step above shareholder returns.   Today’s global capital markets aren’t interested in more marketing from companies in every industry. Instead, they are demanding sustainability and eco-friendly business practices as well as a reasonable return. Global technology companies and their executives are now ... Read More