A school technician with a USB stick explains the appeal of PDQ better than any software pitch. The company built its business by making the same job repeatable across hundreds of computers.

Palantir turns an institution’s scattered data into a working model of the institution itself. For teams with expensive decisions and tangled systems, that can be useful - but this is a serious commitment, not a dashboard you buy on Friday.
The Netwrix founders put $20 million of their own money behind a boring problem, narrowed the company to patching, and made the full product free for 200 devices. The wager turned routine maintenance into one of software's more unusual growth stories.