The Zapier Blog

JUNE 29, 2025

We're more than halfway through the 2020s. The app isn't packed with the kinds of AI features that are now a major selling point of a lot of design tools in this category, so if that's a concern, give it a miss. Look, Canva is great. We've had awesome design apps for more than 30 years.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Let’s move beyond 2020 and start thinking about the 2020s. Take these ideas as inspirational — they aren’t limits, nor should the borders of these categories be seen as anything but liminal. I know in the daily cavalcade of news, it can be hard to fell inspired by the future. But do be!

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 20, 2024

Many new seed funds started & the rate of company formation surged during the early 2020s driven by an ebullient capital markets. In this category, the heady multiples of 2021 & 2022 still apply. The orange crush of seed investment has outpaced the growth in Series A & Series B rounds.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 19, 2021

We believe the 2020s are the decade of data. During this period, there have been three main categories of data work: business intelligence, machine learning, and exploratory analytics. The trends are ubiquitous and plain. The number of data teams is growing as more companies rely on data for daily operations.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

Throughout the late 2010s and early 2020s, the autonomous vehicle industry captured the imagination of the startup community and the public. However, the category’s meteoric rise preceded an even more meteoric fall over the last 18 to 24 months.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 9, 2020

2/ We continue to maintain an archive of old blog posts by date and category and a specific archive for MBA Mondays. Many things remain the same. 1/ You can continue to subscribe to AVC by email and RSS. We continue to use Feedblitz and Feedburner , respectively, to power that.

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