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State of the Cloud 2019: Europa Edition with Alex Ferrara, Bessemer Venture Partners (Video + Transcript)

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Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. Retail was mentioned twice, that’s it, and AWS was mentioned 78 times, so it’s probably not surprising that they’re doing this. I think it’s a really staggering stat.

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The SaaS Trust Crisis with Godard Abel (Video + Transcript)

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And G2 Gives, we partner with philanthropies, we partner with some of our customers like AWS and Google Cloud, who can then make donations for every review, to thank their customers. And from G2 track, we’ve gotten some interesting data where we’re tracking SaaS usage and spend for about 2000 companies.

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Q&A with Maria Pergolino, Anthony Kennada, Aaron Ross and Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

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Aaron : Well, also, as someone who went through this, especially like the 2000, 2001 times. And I remember being at that Dreamforce in 2009, which was awful. Every retail shop was closed by 2000. ” I’m like, that sounds awful. SMB numbers are harder to get with, but it’s like 60 or 70 for SMBs.

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The Answers to Scaling, Hiring, and Everything Else: A SaaStr Europa AMA with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin (Pod 585 + Video)

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I’m going to get the numbers wrong, I think Amazon has 10,000 open positions out in AWS. Salesforce was a very rudimentary SMB app for a brief period of time, but it was. We give away thousands… It’s not just tickets, but we do give away 2000 tickets. I think Azure’s like 7,000, Google.