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I remember first meeting Christoph Gerber back in 2020 in his Berlin office with his dog Bobbie . He was an absolute force then and even more so now. So grateful he let us along this journey. CONGRATS to him and the Talon.One team!!!! Can't think of a more deserving team. 🙏 🙏 🙏

Big news from the streets of Berlin! Adyen to acquire Talon.One for €750M 5 years and 1 incredible board meeting photo When I met Christoph Gerber I kept asking him about the the marketing clouds as competitors and acquirers - in true Chris fashion he shut me down repeatedly saying promotions are much closer to the payments providers than anyone realizes. Not wrong. In SF we talk about talent density, the story not written here is the insanely talented team that Chris and Sebastian Haas assembled through the years, including but not limited to Christopher Mills and Julia Heintel!! Thanks to the whole team for the incredible work. Thank you all for having me and CRV on this journey

Congrats to Christoph Gerber, Sebastian Haas and the entire Talon.One team on today's exciting news.

Big news: Talon.One has signed an agreement to be acquired by Adyen. This milestone marks the beginning of a powerful new chapter, bringing together two industry leaders with a shared vision for loyalty and payments. By combining Talon.One’s real-time promotions, loyalty and incentives capabilities with Adyen’s payments infrastructure and transaction data, we can enable more customers than ever to act on those insights within the transaction itself, both online and in-store. We are incredibly excited about what we will build together as part of Adyen. Read more about the news, and what it means for our customers, here: https://lnkd.in/epkvGZP3

We’ve signed an agreement to acquire Talon.One. This is an important step in how we continue to support our customers’ growth. Today, merchants can recognize customers across online and in-store channels, but acting on that insight in the moment remains a challenge. By combining Adyen’s payments infrastructure and transaction data with Talon.One real-time promotions and incentives capabilities, we can enable our customers to act on those insights within the transaction itself, both online and in-store. From personalized offers at checkout to dynamically adjusting promotions based on customer behavior and inventory, this brings decisioning directly into the flow of commerce. This acquisition builds on our Unified Commerce strategy and expands our role from processing transactions to helping shape their outcomes. https://bit.ly/4d29FBO

At RSAC Conference this year, Cybercrime Magazine interviewed Lior Div on how AI Agents represent a defining moment in cybersecurity with attackers and defenders having access to the same technology. Lior talks about what 7AI is building, where customers are seeing wins today, and how the SOC is adapting for the future. The full interview below: https://hubs.la/Q04dckQd0 #cybersecurity #agentic

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Coding is the killer use case for AI This is outdated but ~50% of tokens consumed are for coding and my guess is this is even more skewed 2 months later Not only that, in order to be a leading AI lab, you must have a competitive frontier coding model 2 years ago this was not obvious to me that coding would be the battleground and the strongest PMF for LLMs Interestingly it’s not winner take all, many are benefitting across model labs, harnesses and agents Anthropic/Google/OpenAI are leading the charge but the product market fit we are seeing at CodeRabbit, Cognition, Cursor, Factory, OpenCode and the like is unparalleled.