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RRiding Unicorns · Sam Jacobs
Sam Jacobs explains how Go Places uses AI to analyze their social commerce data, running performance studies across their brand portfolio and optimizing live shopping events by understanding which promotional mechanisms and presenters work best. He highlights the complexity of managing multiple data points across content to drive actionable business insights.
a16z Podcast · Patrick Collison
Patrick Collison discusses Stripe's technical evolution, revealing how the company had extensive internal documentation about migrating from Ruby to Java. He explains that they partially executed this migration, rewriting critical services in Java when throughput performance became essential, acknowledging Ruby's limitations under heavy load.
