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The $100b Bull Case for Temporal

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I spend a lot of time talking to developers about Temporal, but haven’t touched on Temporal’s business potential since my Why Temporal post from last year. We announced our Series B last month, and I thought it’d be fun to take my dev hat off and put on my money hat. I won’t be discussing ”So what actually is Temporal?” here. This piece is focused on making the business case that I would as a venture partner getting buy-in to invest in the company. obviously this is personal speculation and I am not confirming the company roadmap or anything. This is going to start off sounding extremely bullish, because it is easy to do that for young startups, but this isn’t a puff piece and we’ll get a lot more tentative towards the end. I’ll rule out one form of valuation here, which is “unicorn by strategic acquisition” - all the cloud majors have a workflow offering and Temporal would be additive, but Temporal’s appeal is inherently multi-cloud, so that would seriously impair the value here (thou

The $100b Bull Case for Temporal swyx · 2022-03-07 I spend a lot of time talking to developers about Temporal, but haven't touched on Temporal's business potential since my Why Temporal post from last year. We announced our Series B last month , and I thought it'd be fun to take my dev hat off and put on my money hat. I won't be discussing " So what actually is Temporal? " here. This piece is focused on making the business case that I would as a venture partner getting buy-in to invest in the company. obviously this is personal speculation and I am not confirming the company roadmap or anythin

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