Clouded Judgement

OCTOBER 20, 2023

For context on a 10Y at 5% - from 2010 to 2020 the 10Y averaged roughly ~2.5%. Said another way, the 10Y today is double what it averaged from 2010 to 2020. Hyperscaler Preview Next week Amazon, Microsoft and Google report earnings and we’ll see Q3 data for AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.

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SaaStr

MAY 6, 2022

Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and even Google Cloud are on fire, adding insane amounts of revenue this year. The point is that SaaS multiples are still higher than where they were from 2010-2017. Customers are buying more than ever. The top SaaS and Cloud leaders are even accelerating at $1B in ARR, for goodness sakes!!

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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). There are about 3.2

Payment Solutions 259

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Software SaaS Payments 259

SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

And so when we think back to what was happening when we started back in 2010 when we were working on this idea in 2009, we just saw there’s this huge shift going on, where we were going from a world from hardware and software that you owned, to services in the cloud that you rented. And I remember AWS was growing really quickly.

Sales Hiring 200

Sales Hiring Scale Technical Review Outsourcing Services 200

SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2022

Found by Girish Mathrubootham and Shan Krishnasam in 2010, Freshworks specializes in providing SaaS customer engagement solutions to businesses of all sizes. The company offers a data analytics platform based on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Clouds, and Microsoft Azure. Freshworks. Capillary Technologies.

SaaS Payments 11

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payments 11

SaaStr

JULY 29, 2020

And so when you think back to what was happening, when we start back in 2010, when we were working on this idea in 2009, we just saw there’s this huge shift going on, where we were going from a world from hardware and software that you owned to services in the cloud that you rented. And I remember like AWS was growing really quickly.

Sales Hiring 171

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