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Search and news advertising ex TAC revenue grew 21% and 20% in constant currency driven by volume and rate growth across Edge and Bing. Bing and Edge took share for the fourth consecutive year. https://lnkd.in/gyDinYME

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LG CNS boosted search accuracy from 75% to 95% and cut retrieval times in half by building on our Search AI Platform. Its hybrid search architecture combines full-text, sparse, and dense vectors to deliver fast, relevant results, even with typos or synonyms. Deployed on-prem, tuned for performance, and built for scale. This is what next-gen knowledge management looks like. 👉 Dive into the full story: https://gag.gl/9KpOOz

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The Google APM (Associate Product Manager) mafia has raised over $800 million in total funding. In 2002, Marissa Mayer created Google’s Associate Product Manager program to train future product leaders. With an acceptance rate of less than 1%, this program is highly prestigious and it gave early career PMs the responsibility to work on important projects where their contributions made a big difference. The nature of the role - high responsibility and high impact shaped them into exactly the kind of people who go on to build companies: 1. Early ownership on core products: They led product work on important products such as Search and Maps. This meant being responsible for prioritization, collaborating with engineering, and making shipping decisions on products used by hundreds of millions of users. They developed strong product judgment under real conditions. 2. Experience in cross functional management: APMs had to work with engineers, designers, legal, marketing, and execs and align all the different teams towards one goal. 3. They had to learn and adapt quickly: Over the two year program, APMs worked on two completely different teams building different products each year. This context-switching forced them to learn and adapt faster and build frameworks they could reuse anywhere. 4. Direct mentorship from experienced leaders: The program was small and tightly run. Early APMs were mentored by Marissa Mayer and other senior product leaders. These folks in their early 20s got feedback on product thinking, communication and leadership directly from people who had scaled Google. Here are the top 10 most funded former Google APMs turned entrepreneurs: 1. Asana: Co-founded by Justin Rosenstein Funding Raised: $453M 2. Sierra: Founded by Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor Funding Raised: $285M 3. Pepper: Co-founded by Chetan Narain Funding Raised: $46M 4. Limitless: Co-founded by Dan Siroker Funding Raised: $33M 5. Ambrook: Co-founded by Dan Schlosser Funding Raised: $29M 6. Mem: Founded by Kevin Moody Funding Raised: $29M 7. PapayaMobile Inc.: Co-founded by Si Shen papaya Funding Raised: $22M 8. Warmly,: Co-founded by maximus greenwald Funding Raised: $17M 9. Kapwing: Co-founded by Julia Enthoven Funding Raised: $12M 10. Create: Founded by Dhruv Amin Funding Raised: $8.5M Data from Crustdata (YC F24)'s people and company APIs. Did we miss out anyone?

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In any organization, time and resources are finite—but distractions are not. When teams align around clear priorities and focus on what truly matters, execution accelerates, quality improves, and impact compounds. Strategic focus is not just about doing less—it’s about doing what drives the highest return. The result? A high-yield dividend in productivity, morale, and long-term value. Revenue growth is a nice side effect. https://lnkd.in/d3m82ipd

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I just heard about the layoffs at Amazon. It seems that many of my former colleagues at PXT will be affected. This is obviously a difficult time if you are laid off, but you'll get through it. First steps, without even wasting time, take care of your finances. Cut your discretionary spending (cancel subscriptions, sell your car, don't order takeout or go to restaurants) and tap your emergency fund if needed to ensure you don't find yourself in a worse situation in six months. If you find a job in a couple of months, that's great, but the market is tough right now. Plan for a 6 to 12-month journey. Second, take charge of your professional life. Take a week or two to rest and reset. Go for long walks, meditate, meet with friends, call family, or read a book. Then, focus on learning skills you didn't have time to because you were so busy at work. Goes without saying that learning how to master AI is critical for any future corporate job. Lastly, think about what's next. Job searching requires working your network. It's not enough to apply for jobs online. Find the hiring manager for the position you are seeking and see who you know who can refer you. If you are a software engineer, start a new project to exercise new brain “muscles.” If you are considering founding a startup, thinking about a career pivot, or looking for networking opportunities in Seattle, *send me a message* and I'll help you with what I know. If you prefer, we can schedule a call to chat. You've got this!

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Great products solve for real user pain. Too many apps. Too many logins. Too many choices. Airtel just launched a plan that simplifies all that—25+ OTTs, 1 recharge. Sometimes, reducing friction is the most underrated kind of innovation. https://lnkd.in/gdmipzi8 Pankaj Dayani Siddharth Sharma Anurag Verma Sanket Arora  kanishk kumar Hitesh Bhatia Vipul Gaba Manish Jain Parichay Saxena Gurpreet Singh Nikhil Rajput Narendra Choudhary Amiya Vidit Varun Das Ankit Srivastava Anant Kumar Manoj Kumar Mauni Heena Naithani Himanshu Gulati Himanshu Luthra Sushit Sharma Joel T Stephen Gitansh Malik

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Today we announced new capabilities for our Shop Direct and Buy for Me experiences on Amazon, enabling now feeds to facilitate external merchants to list reliably their product listings and reach millions of Amazon customers. Excited on this feature, that is a win/win experience for customers, merchants and brands. Excited to be part of such important project.

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Adobe have completed new research on the state of AI in customer experience. I’m looking forward to joining them live to discuss the implications, particularly how organisations can move from experimentation to embedded AI across the end-to-end customer journey.

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