2020 Startup Themes

5. The Privacy Headfake

Privacy might be the digital spinach: something you know that’s good for you, beloved by regulators, but not a primary driver for anyone but the most extreme health consumers.

Remote is in vogue and founders are rushing to build all parts of the distributed startup supply chain: Terminal helps generate remote teams, Tandem and There attempt to create a remote “office”, and Loom helps teams share their work over video.

10. The Enterprise Dabblers

Using GCP or AWS’s console like trying to sprint through molasses. AI is eating the software that ate the world, and specialized ML tools are growing with it.

8. Remote & Collaboration

Autonomy, 5G and other factors have created a relaxed regulatory environment for rada. Software-defined radio has become recently cheap enough for anyone to experiment.

The idea behind NoCode is to make a new abstraction for software engineering. Just like Javascript made programming more accessible to a broader audience.

6. UAI (Useful AI)

What was previously oral knowledge will be automatically documented by machines.