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State of the Cloud 2019 from Bessemer Venture Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Join Bessemer Venture Partners’ Byron Deeter and Kristina Shen as they take a look at trends and predictions for the cloud industry in 2019. This marks the company’s fifth annual in-depth look at the cloud computing industry. And guess were how many of them were private cloud unicorns? Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020.

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Everything You Need to Know About Freemium Pricing

OpenView Labs

In their freemium plan, AWS offers a year’s worth of micro instance for free – a time-bound freemium model. AWS needs adequate time to get a skeptical developer to understand the value that they offer, to get the developer hooked on the product and build on top of it, and to eventually recommend AWS to a fellow developer.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Chris O’Neill and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

I have seen my fair share of storms and or crises from the early days of the dot-com boom and bust to 2008, 2009 crisis and then having a front row seat at some of these turnarounds at iconic brands like Evernote, and more recently on the board at Gap, which is undergoing its own transformation. E-commerce is on fire. Look at Shopify.

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Twilio: The First $100m+ ARR with Jeff Lawson, CEO/Co Founder (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Twilio is a cloud communications platform that allows software developers to embed communications into the apps that they’re building. At the end of the day, Twilio still sells communications, AWS still sells servers, but the way we’re selling it is different than how it was done in yesteryear. Jeff : Yeah, I saw one.

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Starting Up In A Downturn with Cloudflare COO and Co-Founder Michelle Zatelyn (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Michelle : During the economic downturn right after the financial crisis in 2008. And I remember like AWS was growing really quickly. And at the time there was a big debate of, “Will big companies ever really use AWS?” What do you see for the cloud in 2030 and how are you planning for that? Ben: Thanks.

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Top 30 SaaS Companies in the US

SmartKarrot

Amazon Web Services (AWS). Amazon, the global marketplace, also offers several other services, one of which is Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS offers cloud services to businesses. Coupa is a cloud-based expenditure management software for businesses. Founded in: 2008. Founded in: 1982. Founded in: 2017.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Tidelift and Cloudflare

SaaStr

This is where the cloud meets. And we started CloudFlare during the economic downturn right after the financial crisis in 2008. ” Because again, it was 2008. And I remember AWS was growing really quickly. And at the time there was a big debate of, will big companies ever really use AWS? You know the deal.