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The decade software ate the world

Intercom, Inc.

To give some perspective, there were about 300 million smartphones sold in 2010. The wave of SaaS companies that built themselves on the likes of AWS and Azure have reinforced the pre-eminence of cloud computing. There are about 3.2 What was perhaps less predictable was the ensuing prevalence of the subscription-based business model.

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Top 10 Tools to Get Your App PLG-d

Frontegg

This innovative software tool is a proven and tested customer engagement booster. Founded : 2011 Known customers: Facebook, IBM, Microsoft, AWS, Unity, Udemy, Shopify Price starts at: $38/month per user. #2 Founded: 2010 Known customers: Okta, Knewton, Study.com, Doodle, Percona, Freedom Price starts at: $249/month. #7

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In the Vault: Placing Multiple Bets on a ‘Mosaic of Solutions’ With Former Global Payments CEO Jeff Sloan

Andreessen Horowitz

ABOUT IN THE VAULT “In the Vault” is a new audio podcast series by the a16z Fintech team, where we sit down with the most influential figures in financial services to explore key trends impacting the industry and the pressing innovations that will shape our future. Follow this show on our podcast feed so you don't miss an episode.

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Taming SaaS Security Challenges with the Zero Trust Security Model

BetterCloud

With demonstrable success from Netflix and AWS, more companies are starting to offer their core businesses as microservices to expand their customer and revenue base. Though we are still in the early phases of innovation, there are proven methods for achieving a higher degree of maturity for managing sprawling applications in the cloud.

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The Future of AI, Open Source, and Enterprise SaaS: Where It’s All Going with Databricks’ CEO, Ali Ghodsi (Podcast #505 and Video)

SaaStr

Open Source is one of the most successful enablers of global innovation in history, and Linux has grown into the most important software platform in the world, dominating every market it enters. In 2010, COSS was valued at $10B, and 90% of that value was attributed to a single company: Red Hat. Key takeaways.

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Key Lessons from a $5B SaaS Category Leader (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

To me, companies will always be trying to innovate around how do they serve their customers better and their employees better in order to build their businesses and drive more revenue. And those of us and those of you who are involved in these companies, even the successful ones look an awful lot more like this. We just doubled.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Tidelift and Cloudflare

SaaStr

You got to be really frugal and you got to innovate your way out of problems. And when you only have a little bit of money, you really innovate your way out of problems or engineer your way out of problems. Let’s innovate our way out of the problem.” And I remember AWS was growing really quickly.