Episode 253: People don’t understand how pay works

This week we give our “expert analysis” of all the impending enterprise IPO’s, discuss Multi-Cloud and try to make sense of Roblox and TikTok. Plus, are salary bands good or bad…? The Rundown IPOs the Palantir IPO mission statement is an amazing artifact. Software Developer Tools Company JFrog Adds to Tech IPO Rush. Asana files to go public via direct listing. Snowflake files for IPO, taking on Amazon and Microsoft cloud database businesses. Unity’s IPO filing shows how big a threat it poses to Epic and the Unreal Engine. Redis Labs, Maker Of Database Software, Hits $1 Billion Valuation With New Fundraise. Gamers are logging millions of hours a day on Roblox. Relevant to your Interests Apple A14X Bionic to Be ‘Nearly on Par’ With 8-Core Intel Core i9-9880H, According to Fresh Performance Analysis. Apple apologizes to WordPress, won’t force the free app to add purchases after all. Epic Games wins temporary ruling barring Apple from retaliation. Online Retailing Executives The second-most important Jeff at Amazon is leaving the company. Downtown Las Vegas fixture Tony Hsieh leaves Zappos. Tony Hsieh out as CEO of shoe and clothing giant Zappos. MSFT Cloud Revenue: Microsoft Bigger than Amazon and Google, 2X IBM. Microsoft plans cloud contract push with foreign governments after $10 billion JEDI win. Microsoft’s new Transcribe in Word feature is designed for students, reporters, and more. TikTok Plans to Challenge Trump Administration Over Executive Order. At scale, all B2B products converge. It’s reports, alerts, workflow, permissions and approvals all the way down. Malicious Chinese SDK In 1,200 iOS Apps With Billions Of Installs Causing ‘Major Privacy. Concerns To Hundreds Of Millions Of Consumers.’ Freedom of cloud choice: The myths and truths about multi-cloud. Application modernization requires more than just technology, lots of consultative analysis. Fun fact: Nvidia is now worth more than Intel + AMD combined. TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer resigns Then he asked me “Is Kubernetes right for us?” Nonsense @PopeyesChicken mobile app doesn't think @heyhey email addresses are real. Sponsor CloudBees Register for DevOps Worlds by CloudBees and visit cloudbees.com to learn more about their products. Listener Feedback Eric wants you to work on monitoring Get a job at DigitalOcean. Conferences SpringOne Platform, Sep 2nd and 3rd. Devops World 2020 by CloudBees | The Future of DevOps & Jenkins. September 22-24, 2020 SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Recommendations Matt Ray: Connected:Digits Benford’s Law. Anti-recommendation: San Miguel Nacho Cheese. Brandon: Yellowstone Season 3 Finale. Coté: Microsoft OneNote…? Photo Credit