Clouded Judgement

APRIL 11, 2024

It looks at the YoY dollar change in quarterly revenue from the hyperscalers (just looking at Azure / AWS because the data goes back further) going back a few years. If we break this down and look at Azure and AWS independently (graphs below), you’ll see how the AWS “swings” were a lot more volatile.

Cloud 177

Cloud Software Azure AWS 177

OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

This is why we’re seeing more and more SaaS companies—Datadog, Twilio, AWS, Snowflake, and Stripe, to name a few—find success with product led growth paired with usage-based pricing. It requires shifts in go-to-market strategy, sales compensation, financial planning, billing, and much more. Ready to scale to $100+ million ARR?

Scale 98

Scale Pricing Scaling AWS 98

Nimble - Sales

MAY 22, 2019

Nimble has migrated its market-leading SaaS CRM from Amazon Web Services (AWS) to Microsoft Azure. The migration enables Nimble to tap into Microsoft’s world-class Azure platform and partner ecosystem to scale.

Azure 96

Azure Scale AWS Management 96

Clouded Judgement

MARCH 22, 2024

This is why the consumption players (Snowflake, Mongo, Confluent, Azure, AWS, etc) so more variability in the macro slowdown. This brings me to AI (everything leads to AI these days…). But this is changing - many categories are becoming commoditized leading to massive pricing pressure. Do you have ARR or ERR?

AI 183

AI Revenue Cloud Technical Advisors 183

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 31, 2019

The most triumphant transfer of control from an original generation leader to a new CEO was surely that of Microsoft, which pivoted from chasing after Apple’s success in the consumer space under Steve Ballmer (don’t mention Nokia ) to successfully focusing on the cloud under Satya Nadella (please do mention Azure). The scale is extraordinary.

Payment Solutions 259

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Software SaaS Payments 259

Audacix

JULY 28, 2022

In fact, smart and fast-growing cloud software companies who outperform their peers usually share this common trait: they consistently grow sales and build their brand by turning their security standards into a key differentiator and selling point. How many of these three things do you offer your prospective customers? Not really.

Cybersecurity 52

Cybersecurity Underperforming Technical Team AWS Scale 52

BetterCloud

JANUARY 8, 2021

Achieving RBAC at scale. Achieving RBAC at scale. Scale becomes an additional challenge when managing user lifecycles across an entire digital workplace with tens or hundreds of SaaS apps. Over time, it’s all too easy to simply grant access to more data and controls than necessary, leading to increased risk.

Azure 52

Azure AWS Scale Technical Review 52

SaaStr

APRIL 26, 2024

At Glasswing Ventures, they tell their AI-native companies not to lead with AI because it’s such a superficial indication of interest. When you take the data, you may have a business goal of making more sales or delighting the customer. What should founders know about the modern AI stack that Enterprises can scale on?

AI Search 211

AI Search AI Artificial Intelligence Scale 211

ProfitWell

MAY 12, 2020

Both companies provide tools that allow businesses to automate their marketing, sales, and customer service efforts. Windows Azure — Built on their Azure platform, this offering from Microsoft allows developers to use Windows through a cloud-based virtual desktop and develop applications from anywhere using Visual Studio Online.

Cloud 59

Cloud Azure SaaS Underperforming Technical Team 59

Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The Mosaic guys just figured out how to do that at scale for others. Ali: There’s a scaling law. If you’re scaling the parameters up, you have to scale the data with it. If you don’t have that, you’re not going to get the bang for the buck from scaling. It will be like AWS, GCP, and Azure.

AI 102

AI Enterprise Artificial Intelligence Generative AI 102

SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

With the advent of SaaS (software as a service), enterprises can now access cloud software solutions, making scaling much faster and easier. SaaS and the Cloud Let Enterprises Scale Faster. If you are an enterprise, the ability to scale quickly is crucial. Scaling is a fundamental part of business, but it is not easy.

Scale 10

Scale Cloud Enterprise Scaling 10

Audacix

OCTOBER 24, 2019

In fact, smart and fast-growing cloud software companies who outperform their peers usually share this common trait: they consistently grow sales and build their brand by turning their security standards into a key differentiator and selling point. How many of these three things do you offer your prospective customers?

Cloud 49

Cloud Cybersecurity Scale Transportation 49

OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

At its core, gross margin (GM) speaks to the relationship between sales and its costs. Understand the levers of costs, also known as cost of goods sold (COGS) or cost of sales (COS). It tracks the quality of engagement with your product and is a non-financial leading indicator of your product’s usage.

Scale 52

Scale Payment Methods Payment Services Systems Review 52

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we talk to Alison Wagonfeld, CMO of Google Cloud. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Welcome to The Sales Hacker Podcast. Previously, she was an operating partner at Emergence Capital, a leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm that we all probably know about. We’re on iTunes.

Cloud 44

Cloud Artificial Intelligence Scale GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 44

SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

As SaaStr Europa 2022 drew to a close, attendees took one more opportunity to ask Jason questions about topics like how to navigate the current market, the future of work, playing in a crowded space, and hiring your first VP of Sales. It was funny for Henry to say he segmented his sales team at 80 million in ARR. Transcript.

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Scaling 196

User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

Userpilot is a leading B2B product growth tool that excels at in-app engagement , product analytics, customer feedback collection, customer support, and integrations. It’s suitable for businesses wanting control over their infrastructure and the ability to scale. Frequent issues can lead to significant disruptions in service.

SaaS Payments 104

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Methods Payment Solutions 104

Audacix

JULY 18, 2022

Cross-team sharing is key to scaling DevOps effectiveness Do you have sharing, caring team members? Talk to the people at the DevOps coalface Senior leadership in large and small organisations often fails to comprehend the nature and scale of the challenges and frustrations faced by those at the coalface.

DevOps as a Service 52

DevOps as a Service Technical Review CTO Coach Underperforming Technical Team 52

User Pilot

APRIL 29, 2024

Your tech stack not only defines the backbone of your business operations but also influences your ability to innovate, scale, and deliver exceptional value to your customers. Service providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure offer server hosting and load-balancing services.

Azure 52

Azure GCP(Google Cloud Platform) AWS Construction 52

SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

333: Bridget Gleason is the Head of Sales and Customer Success @ Tidelift, the company providing managed open source, backed by maintainers. Before Tidelift, Bridget was VP of Sales @ Logz.io and before that was VP of Corporate Sales @ Sumo Logic where she drove ARR up by a record 237%.

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Sales Hiring Scale Technical Review Outsourcing Services 200

Clouded Judgement

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

If you want features in your lakehouse (on top of open source Iceberg) for ingestion, CDC, streaming (file loading, Kafka connect, etc), schema evolution, compaction, optimization, time travel, snapshots, auto-scaling, maintenance (no more writing spark jobs to delete snapshots!), A natural question is “why do we have two tiers?

Data 130

Data Government Scale GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 130

Frontegg

JUNE 17, 2021

As explained in the first part of this series, we clearly saw why Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is the way to go when it comes to establishing self-serving applications that can be scaled up and developed fast(er). Scale up (or down) fast Better Latency – Access points all around the world for better performance.

ECS (Elastic Container Service) 97

ECS (Elastic Container Service) multi-cloud Kubernetes K8S orchestration (Kubernetes) Scale 97

OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Cloud marketplaces like AWS Marketplace, Azure Marketplace and Google Cloud Platform Marketplace are digital storefronts where companies can list their offerings for software buyers to find, purchase and provision software. . When it comes to the sales process, cloud marketplaces have clear benefits.

Marketplace as a Service 52

Marketplace as a Service Cloud Scale B2B 52

CloudGeometry

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

It is the secret to effective tiering and scaling. Given the speed and intensity of competition in this market, it’s essential to SaaS success at any scale — and at any point on the lifecycle of your SaaS product offering. Let’s take a closer look at what that means and how it works.

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Well Architected Framework SaaS AWS Construction 130

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

If we look at that and step back, you can think of this, again, from the leading perspective of the public’s first, which is this evolution over time. We’ve all seen AWS and what they’ve done with their platform. Even at spectacular scale, they’re still growing at 30%. They had to reinvent themselves.

Sales Hiring 156

Sales Hiring Scale Payments Cloud 156

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 8, 2018

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Chris Degnan , Chief Revenue Officer of Snowflake Computing, one of the fastest growing SaaS platforms in the world. At Snowflake, he was the first rep and single-handedly built the outbound-engine on the way to scaling the business from pre-revenue all the way past $150M+ in ARR.

Scale 65

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 65

Sales Hacker

MARCH 10, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Nicole Wojno Smith , the VP of Marketing at Tackle.io. She also founded and leads the Atlanta Chapter of Revenue Collective. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Welcome to the Sales Hacker Podcast. What You’ll Learn. We’re on iTunes. And on Stitcher.

Sales Hiring 73

Sales Hiring Scale Marketing AWS 73

SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

Justin Bedecarre: And then another client of ours is an international company that has decided that they truly want to scale up in San Francisco. We don’t know when we’re going to be able to get safely back at scale. I need like sales, procurement, collaboration. Some of them are like a wait and see approach, right?

Sales Recruiting 148

Sales Recruiting Cloud CTO Hire Scale 148

OpenView Labs

JANUARY 24, 2022

Every year Tackle surveys sellers and buyers at software companies across the spectrum—from less than $10M to over $1 billion in ARR, across multiple industries, and in roles like alliances/partnerships, sales, operations, product/development, finance, marketing, IT, and more.

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Marketplace as a Service Cloud Trends Software 77

SaaStr

JULY 29, 2020

So huge scale, we stop about 15 billion cyberattacks daily on behalf of those 26 million internet properties. And I think part of it is because it was the job prospects were kind of gloomy. And I remember like AWS was growing really quickly. And we make the internet faster, safer, more reliable for a lot of people.

Sales Hiring 171

Sales Hiring Outsourcing Services Scale Sales Recruiting 171