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D5 Wants Architects to Stop Waiting for the Picture
The rendering upstart began by chasing offline quality at game-engine speed. Now it is chasing a bigger prize: keeping a design intact from the first SketchUp move to the room where the client says yes.
The BlueJeans Playbook: Build the Bridge, Sell for Under $500 Million, and Know When Bundles Win
BlueJeans made incompatible cameras talk, grew to 25 million users, and sold to Verizon at the precise moment video became oxygen. Its shutdown four years later is a useful warning: a brilliant bridge can still lose when the platforms on both sides become the destination.
Altaf Ganihar
A geometry researcher met the limits of old design software at Hampi. His response was Snaptrude - a browser-native attempt to make building design collaborative, connected and easier to revise.
Peter Thompson
Peter Thompson is the Cofounder and CEO of LucidLink, a San Francisco-based cloud-native file streaming platform that turns object storage into a native file system accessible from anywhere in real time. A Minnesota farm kid who spent 15 years navigating storage markets across Asia and the Americas at DataCore Software before returning to Stanford's GSB at age 48, Thompson teamed up with engineer George Dochev in 2016 to build what users still describe as 'magic.' LucidLink has since raised $120.6M in total funding including a $75M Series C led by Brighton Park Capital in 2023, grown ARR nearly 5x in two years, counts Warner Bros., Paramount, Adobe, and Shopify among its customers, and earned an Engineering, Science & Technology Emmy Award from the Television Academy.