Jim Kaskade

Serial Entrepreneur, Global Enterprise Executive

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Conversica Executive “Dos and Don’ts” Playbook

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  • May 31, 2025
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Leadership

An AI Startup CEO’s Reflection

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  • April 18, 2025
  • Artificial Intelligence

End of 2024: Notable AI Events in AI and Emerging LLM Developments

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  • December 31, 2024
  • Artificial Intelligence

End of 2023: Notable AI Events in AI and Emerging LLM Developers

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  • December 31, 2023
  • Artificial Intelligence

End of 2022: Notable AI Events and Emerging LLM Developers

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  • December 31, 2022
  • Artificial Intelligence

End of 2021: Notable Events in AI and LLM Development

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  • December 31, 2021
  • Leadership

Transparency Leads to Change

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  • February 5, 2021
  • Leadership

Black History Month

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  • February 2, 2021
  • Artificial Intelligence

End of 2020: Milestones and Momentum in AI

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  • December 29, 2020
Creating CEO Playbooks
  • Leadership

Creating CEO Playbooks

I love creating agile business systems with my team. When I first became a CEO

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  • May 6, 2019
When do you achieve breakeven?
  • Leadership

When do you achieve breakeven?

4Q18 was a very busy time for us. We were supposed to be gearing up

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  • May 2, 2019
When should you scale sales?
  • Leadership

When should you scale sales?

I was talking recently to a Board member of an emerging high-growth startup. The topic

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  • May 1, 2019
Extension Teams
  • Leadership

Extension Teams

I’ve been a big advocate of lowering costs by leveraging onshore, nearshore, and offshore extension

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  • May 1, 2019
Organizational Strategy
  • Leadership

Organizational Strategy

Profitable Growth was our 2018 theme supported by four quarterly themes. Early on, I predicted

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  • April 30, 2019
IoT affects All – Even Identity
  • Leadership

IoT affects All – Even Identity

It was 4Q17, and there was no way I was going to let the industry

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  • April 29, 2019
Analytics in the Cloud
  • Leadership

Analytics in the Cloud

It had been a year since we kicked off our data initiatives with Roger Magoulas

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  • April 29, 2019
Compliance in the Cloud
  • Leadership

Compliance in the Cloud

  2Q17 was all about Identity Data Governance at Janrain. It fell under a broader

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  • April 28, 2019
The “aaS” Delivery Model
  • Leadership

The “aaS” Delivery Model

There were so many identity and access managment (IAM) vendors who grew up in the

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  • April 26, 2019
Making a Business “Repeatable”
  • Leadership

Making a Business “Repeatable”

It’s actually a great theme (“repeatability”) for a team that isn’t used to being data-driven.

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  • April 25, 2019

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CEO for 20 years. Focused on AI, Security, Identity, IoT, Big Data, Social, Mobile, & Cloud. Decade in data warehousing, business intelligence, data mining.

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doodlestein Jeffrey Emanuel @doodlestein ·
26 Feb 2024

@GuillaumeLample Keep up the good work embarrassing Google with a team of like 5 devs!

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guillaumelample Guillaume Lample @ NeurIPS 2024 @guillaumelample ·
26 Feb 2024

Today, we are releasing Mistral Large, our latest model. Mistral Large is vastly superior to Mistral Medium, handles 32k tokens of context, and is natively fluent in English, French, Spanish, German, and Italian.

We have also updated Mistral Small on our API to a model that is…

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11 Feb 2024

Looking for a California Roots Music and Arts Festival 2024 tickets (2) https://tixel.com/u/7645855

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