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AI Adoption: 5 Hard Truths About the Fastest Technology Transformation in History With Aaron Levie, CEO Box

SaaStr

Enterprise AI Adoption Is Moving 5-10X Faster Than Cloud The contrast with cloud adoption is striking, according to Levie: Cloud in 2008-2009 : “Try pitching the cloud to a bank. .” This generational shift will accelerate transformation far beyond what we saw with cloud adoption. That was a non-starter.

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How AI Infrastructure Will Power the Future with Oracle and Bain Capital Ventures

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Additionally, if you look at the mobile shift, the iPhone was released in 2007 but we didn’t get our first mobile apps like Uber and Snapchat until 2009 and 2010. It wasn’t until years later that Workday and Salesforce and a whole generation of SaaS companies came along to build on top of that infrastructure.

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What Really Happened to SaaS in the ’08-’09 Recession

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in May 2009 … but then returned to normal 2% by 2010: #4. You can also see highly elevated gross churn in 2009 here — the Mar-June on the left side of the X-axis. But even by July 2009, it had returned to normal once we worked through a cycle of churn. SMBs just plain went out of business in ’08-’09.

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7 Things as CEO You Can Do Now to Help The Team

SaaStr

2020 is not the same as 2009. At least, those of us who were CEOs in 2009 sort of know what to do at an operating level. Folks in SaaS that were CEOs and execs in ’08-’09 have seen some of this before. We will do a webinar ourselves on this next week. But it might end up being pretty similar in SaaS. We’ll see.

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5 Very Good Days, and 5 Pretty Bad Days, as a SaaS CEO

SaaStr

A Good Day: Dec 31, 2009; Dec 31, 2010; Dec 31, 2011; Dec 31, 2012. A Bad Day: The Day My Mentee Quit on Me to Go Off and Do Better in 2009. Beyond that, bringing someone super talented into the company that brings a positive attitude and a whole team with him — just epic. And again, Dec 31, 2018 and Dec 31, 2019. And again in 2018.

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Bezos' Shareholder Letter in 2000

Tom Tunguz

All this took patience: Amazon’s share price exceeded the dot-com high Oct 23, 2009, a decade later. A remarkable accomplishment in the most unforgiving capital markets environment the company had seen. Ten years after that, the company’s value had compounded 20x.

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Most Likely, It’s Not The Market. It’s You.

SaaStr

Even when the global economy literally melted down, and >froze< in 2009 — the buyers in SaaS still came. Some are much more impacted post-Covid, like Shopify and Zoom. But even there, the growth is real. Churn went way up, for sure. But buyers still came. More on the actual data here.

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