🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2025-06-15
This week, I’m streamlining with feedback, sharing event highlights, and a new meeting make-over!
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Welcome to the latest Hot Fudge Daily. Each day of the week you get thematic value.
- 🌶️ Spicy Edition Sunday FREE (Hot Fudge Sunday weekly newsletter captures the best of Hot Fudge Daily and the most clicked links for the week.)
- 📈 Markets Monday $ (Hot Fudge Daily: What is moving markets and why does it matter for the week ahead?)
- 🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday $ (Hot Fudge Daily: Get fast unfiltered thoughts on news of the day with just a dash of snark.)
- 🤪 Wacky Wednesday $ (Hot Fudge Daily: Catch up on the wild and wooly memes from a variety of deep web #random channels.)
- 🔙 Throwback Thursday $ (Hot Fudge Daily: Examine recent news in a thought provoking Shot and Chaser format.)
- ✅ Final Thoughts Friday $ (Hot Fudge Daily: A clear eyed look back on the week that was and could have been.)
- 🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday $ (Hot Fudge Daily: Steady and sober unpacking of the slow news day where muted press releases and disclosure stories try to get buried before the weekend takes all the attention.)
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Last week
NexusTek attended Triangle Biotech Tuesday!
Great evening at Triangle Biotech Tuesday in Cary last night! | NexusTek
Great evening at Triangle Biotech Tuesday in Cary last night! NexusTek had a fantastic time connecting with fellow professionals in the life sciences, biotech, and pharma communities at this month's networking event. Since 2012, Triangle Biotech Tuesday has been fostering valuable collaborations and communications throughout the RTP area - and we can see why it continues to thrive. The opportunity to engage with professionals from pharmaceutical, biotech, government, and academic instituti...
NexusTek presented at an amazing business leader event in NYC on Wednesday!
#builttoscale #businessstrategy #leadership #scalingup #growthmindset… | NexusTek
Get Ready to Elevate Your Business! Join NexusTek & The Hedaya Capital Group as we host Built to Scale, a high-impact panel and networking event presented in partnership with our sponsors Microsoft & Pax8. We’re bringing together a powerhouse panel of industry leaders—Isaac Braca, Irwin Dayan, Jack Ades, Bobby Christian, and special guest Victor Braca—who have built, scaled, and successfully exited high-growth businesses. They’ll share proven strategies, creative growth tactics, and th...
NexusTek hosted an exclusive 🎟️🛥️🌃 event in NYC on on Thursday!
This week
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Hot Fudge Daily Digest
📈 Markets Monday for 2025-06-09
Last week
This week
It’s all about love and rockets… so, a bit more spicy.
Source: https://finance.yahoo.com/research-hub/screener/9bda6c7b-fe9e-41ca-9da9-e281a4a9889a
🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-06-10
💰 + 🤖 Funding for AI in search and security continues but on a long enough timeline they will likely converge.
Techmeme: London-based Maze, which uses AI agents to stop cloud security breaches, launches with $31M in total funding, including a $25M Series A led by Theory Ventures (Chris Metinko/Axios)
By Chris Metinko / Axios. View the full context on Techmeme.
Techmeme: Generative AI enterprise search startup Glean raised a $150M Series F led by Wellington, taking its valuation to $7.2B, up from $4.6B in September 2024 (Afshan Musani/CNBC)
By Afshan Musani / CNBC. View the full context on Techmeme.
🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-06-11
Each Wednesday I then select the most interesting shared link from dozens of Slack communities. This will always be a safe for work link. 🙈
The Untold Story of New Year’s Novelty Glasses
Three decades ago, two stoner musicians designed a product whose cheap imitations sold into the billions — but today, nobody knows their names
🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-06-12
🤖 + 🕸️ One story caught my eye this week was the growth in AI crawlers that are gathering instant results for users of various alternatives to web search. Some coverage uses the “bot” name as an inside baseball style reference to robots.txt.
Techmeme: TollBit: traffic from RAG bots, which scrape information in real time, to 266 websites, half of which are from news outlets, grew 49% from Q4 2024 to Q1 2025 (Nitasha Tiku/Washington Post)
By Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post. View the full context on Techmeme.
As for “bots”, if you look back at coverage of early web crawlers, there are some familiar patterns. 20 years ago, coverage of Google Base was mixed but provided a roadmap for where the increasingly machine readable web was heading.
Official Google Blog: First Base
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-06-13
☁️ + 🚨 The story that caught my eye this week was the still newsworthy nature of a cloud scale outage.
Techmeme: Google Cloud suffered an outage on Thursday, affecting many of its customers; Cloudflare, Spotify, Discord, Snapchat, and others experienced service disruptions (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
By Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.
Back in the ancient times of 2021, I wrote this piece on the theme of Cloud in Public: Status Dashboards
Fudge Sunday - Cloud in Public: Status Dashboards (2021) by Jay Cuthrell
The on again off again blog of Jay Cuthrell and Fudge Factor 🤔 💡 🤯 🤓 weekly newsletter
These days, one can easily see just how offline something truly is… and often get a root cause analysis in record time.
🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-06-14
Ah, the Friday news dump. By Friday, everything seems to be reaching the peak of getting news turned in before a deadline or dread-line.
Peak 🏔️ vs. Peek 👀
Then there is a trope, cliché, or bromide about slow news days and the quietly mentioned news updates sent on a Friday — to try and sneak it past wider coverage. Or, in a nutshell, peak patronizing publishing.
🤔 🤨 🧐 Just a couple that caught my technologist eye…
Techmeme: Some users say ChatGPT led them into conspiratorial thinking, and when confronted, it confessed to manipulation and told them to alert OpenAI and the media (Kashmir Hill/New York Times)
By Kashmir Hill / New York Times. View the full context on Techmeme.
Techmeme: Sources: the US DOJ is reviewing whether Google's planned $32B acquisition of cybersecurity company Wiz would illegally limit competition in the market (Josh Sisco/Bloomberg)
By Josh Sisco / Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.
#OpenToWork Weekly
I participated in a #NeverSearchAlone #JSC after rebooting Cuthrell Consulting and joining NexusTek.
I added those #OpenToWork from my LinkedIn network to this newsletter. Over time, we've grown an Alumni 🎉 section for those that transitioned to their next career adventure.
Alumni 🎉
Those in my network that are #OpenToWork:
Trevor Schulz - 20+ Years in Tech Sales | Loyal, Dedicated, and Ready to Work Today
Brian Booden - Ranked #1 in the UK for Qlik and DataViz Content
Elizabeth Quintanilla - Fractional CMO, Digital Marketing Consultant & Coach, Marketing Gunslinger
Barbara Hadley, EdM, SPHR - Strategic HR Leader | Employee Engagement Expert
Andrew Webber - Proven Leader | Consumer Product Innovation & Scaling
Lida Tohidi - Award-Winning Product & Marketing Leader | Startup Advisor
Nathan Clyker - Strategic Sales & Business Development | IT Solutions Expert
Gina (Gina Minks) Rosenthal - Global Product Marketing Manager | Technical Content Strategist
Janel Van Beek - Business Strategist & Master Coach | Leadership & Change Expert
Tamera Rousseau King - Technical Program Manager | Agile Product Owner | People Leader
Ricardo Perez - Virtualization Architect | PowerFlex & VxRail Specialist
Mike Berteletti, CISSP - Experienced IT Professional | Infrastructure & Security
Matthew Leib - Data Center, Cloud & Storage Architect | Technical Writer & Analyst
Michael Joffe - Global Technology Leader | P&L Management | SaaS & OEM
Colleen Coll - Event Technology & Digital Media Specialist | Live Reporting
Thomas Chatham - Engineering Leader | SaaS & Converged Infrastructure
Sam Aiello, Ph.D. - Cybersecurity & Technology Strategist | Pre-Sales Leadership
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