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SaaS Multiples Are At a 3+ Year Low. Where It Goes From Here.

SaaStr

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. And generating real cash flow at scale. #2. Customers are buying more than ever. It just went nuts during Peak Covid.

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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

In 2010, COSS was valued at $10B, and 90% of that value was attributed to a single company: Red Hat. The developers you engage with often become your first adopters, who then become product evangelists—and they’ll help you scale and solidify trust within enterprises, too. We’re currently in the age of the public cloud.

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A Look Back: “SaaS Metrics Masterclass: Key Business Metrics, Pricing Strategies and Billing Models with Stripe’s Head of France and Southern Europe, Guillaume Princen” (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Customer success teams are basically about building at scale this self-serve engine. When Patrick and John in 2010 were at Y Combinator and spend their days doing office hours with the whole Y Combinator and a little water in the valley. Which is basically scaled marketing and things like that.

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Top 10 Tools to Get Your App PLG-d

Frontegg

Product-Led Growth (PLG) is a consumer-centric scaling, conversion, and retention philosophy that uses the product itself as the primary growth driver. Founded : 2011 Known customers: Facebook, IBM, Microsoft, AWS, Unity, Udemy, Shopify Price starts at: $38/month per user. #2 Best For: Product Adoption.

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How AI could impact the B2B software industry in the next decade

Point Nine Land

Challenges faced by startups during the SaaS installation phase (2000–2010) When you look at the first generation of successful “SaaS first” companies (Salesforce, Zendesk, Workday, Hubspot…), they had to overcome three main challenges to succeed: Market education Infrastructure UI/UX Market education. Infrastructure. Integration.

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Using Product Led Growth as an Indicator for Investment w/OpenView Venture Partner, Ashley Smith (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

So how can you leverage that product’s success to obtain the valuation and funding you need to scale? Everyone’s always like, “how did you guys scale so quickly,” and like, everyone loves this product. That’s a lot of money, especially at this scale. I didn’t have a hard job to do. But it worked.

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

Andreessen Horowitz

A lot of the things that we ultimately did when I was running Global Payments from 2013 to 2023, a lot of things that we ultimately did were not even like a glint in my eye back in 2009, 2010 when I was just thinking about coming over. And if we’re doing the right thing, we need to scale it quickly.