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Today’s AWS outage was huge! Snapchat down, Venmo frozen, Robinhood was inaccessible, major UK banks were offline, plus hundreds more. These aren’t startups running on a tight budget, these are massive firms and platforms with sophisticated infrastructure. Migrating to the cloud doesn’t inherently equal resiliency. It’s a start, but it’s not the finish line. Real resiliency means designing for failure at every layer. Understanding your dependencies, planning failovers, and knowing exactly how you’ll recover when (not if) something breaks. Today was a reminder that even the giants aren’t immune, no provider is bulletproof, and resiliency isn’t something you buy off the shelf. It needs to be architected, tested, and continuously refined.

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EQUITYZEN & FORGE GLOBAL "A flurry of recent acquisitions may mark a structural shift in how traditional financial institutions approach private share trading. Morgan Stanley’s announcement that it will acquire EquityZen on 10/29 and Charles Schwab’s acquisition of Forge for $660mm (~5.3x 2026E sales) on 11/6 may signal that incumbents are no longer content to simply partner with independent marketplaces. Rather, they are moving to own them outright, integrating pre-IPO investing into their broader wealth offerings. The suggestion is that private share distribution is emerging as a valuable differentiator. Large financial institutions are betting that controlling the client relationship—particularly with high net worth investors—creates a channel to scale private share distribution. Secondly, scale and data appear to be emerging as competitive advantages. Marketplaces with deep order flow and transaction history can generate pricing and valuation intelligence (like NPM’s Tape D product) that smaller players cannot. To us, the deals also signal a broader verticalization of private market infrastructure. We expect a continued trend towards tighter integration across the stack—combining tender administration, cap table administration, secondary trading, data, and wealth distribution into unified platforms. The result, in our view, over time will be fewer, larger incumbents in private markets that dominate liquidity and pricing power. Will consolidation continue? Our crystal ball is cloudy, but interest in the asset class is clearly robust.  Beyond banks, other theoretical acquirers include large broker dealers and wealth managers, both of which could integrate private share trading to offer differentiated wealth products. In addition, traditional asset managers, many of which are already expanding into private credit and venture secondaries, could pursue acquisitions.  Finally, certain fintechs could look to integrate private market liquidity into their platforms." Nasdaq Private Market

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There is a lot of AI doom-posting in the news right now with narratives focused on displacement and "doing more with less." At Addepar, we reject that premise. The investment industry doesn’t have a talent problem; it has a time problem. The global ecosystem is massive, fragmented, and increasingly complex. The "noise" of manual workflows and data silos shouldn't be the ceiling for what’s possible. Today, we are officially unveiling Addison. Addison is a native AI experience built to deliver actionable intelligence across investment workflows. We didn’t build it to replace the human element, we built it to accelerate it. In an industry built on trust and strategy, the human judgment remains irreplaceable. Our vision is simple: AI finds the patterns; you make the judgment calls. AI processes the "what"; you own the "why." We believe AI is the tool that finally allows investment professionals to get back to the high-value, high-impact work that actually moves the needle. The future of finance isn’t about automation for the sake of efficiency. It’s about empowerment for the sake of impact. Let’s go build the future. #Addepar #Addison #WealthTech #AI #Innovation #InvestmentManagement

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Learn how Google uses Site Reliability Engineering to modernize security operations and deliver value quickly, safely, and securely, from Aron Eidelman and Anton Chuvakin.

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I sat down with Frontegg CEO Sagi on scaling CIAM for Insight Health. A few highlights from our convo, • Day-one enterprise readiness (HIPAA, multi-org, customizable access policies) • Why “build your own auth” slows growth (SSO/RBAC/SCIM, audit logs) • Delegated admin so partners self-manage without pinging engineering • CIAM as a GTM enabler for AI agents and clinician workflows Replay + transcript: https://lnkd.in/grRed-C5

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More than $4 trillion in equity compensation (RSU, ISO, ESPP etc) remains unmanaged for employees. Founded by veterans in this field, Grantd helps financial advisors transform this complex, often-overlooked benefit into actionable tax-informed strategies for clients and new business opportunities for advisories. We’re excited to see our strategic partners share this vision and place their trust in the team.

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