During my 15 years at Amazon, I witnessed firsthand how the company repeatedly turned ambitious ideas into category-creating and leading products at a pace unmatched by most competitors. From AWS and Prime to Kindle and Alexa, Amazon has built an impressive portfolio of billion-dollar businesses that seem to defy the conventional wisdom about large companies being unable to move fast and innovate consistently.

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A technology roadmap is a commonly misunderstood term in business. For the most part, CEOs, Boards of Directors, and Investors see a roadmap as a plan for a business to grow. A technology roadmap is different. Because of the complexities of building great technology products and infrastructure, a technology roadmap must be more carefully designed and implemented than a broader company roadmap.

DeepSeek’s R1 AI model might be the first time an open-source release crashed the NASDAQ. The markets reacted strongly for a simple reason. DeepSeek appears to have created a much cheaper way to deliver high-quality AI applications, on par with the efforts of industry giants like OpenAI and Anthropic. DeepSeek was able to produce its high-quality model with far fewer computing resources than comparable models.

In the wake of the Los Angeles wildfires and the unprecedented air quality crisis on the U.S. East Coast in the summer of 2024—caused by massive Canadian wildfires—the public is more aware than ever of the critical role air filtration plays in everyday life. But long before air quality became a national concern, one former Goldman Sachs options trader saw an opportunity that the industry’s largest players overlooked — pleated air filters.