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The decade software ate the world

Intercom, Inc.

It was in August 2011 that Marc Andreessen coined the famous phrase “ Software is eating the world ” in a Wall Street Journal op-ed. Apple survived the death of Steve Jobs in October 2011 under the thoughtful stewardship of Tim Cook, and continued to essentially be the iPhone company, while branching into wearables and services.

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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 : 2011 Known customers: Facebook, IBM, Microsoft, AWS, Unity, Udemy, Shopify Price starts at: $38/month per user.

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State of the Cloud 2019: Europa Edition with Alex Ferrara, Bessemer Venture Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

It was around that time about 12 years ago that Jeff Bezos launched AWS, and some of you may remember that, when he did this, Wall Street analysts were looking at him and saying, “Why would you take what’s already a very unprofitable business and drive it further into the red by investing in this AWS initiative?”

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$100 Million ARR Pivot: From Platform Product to Vertical Apps With Treasure Data CEO Kazuki Ohta (Podcast #506 and Video)

SaaStr

When it launched in 2011, Treasure Data’s positioning was a Hadoop-based big data warehouse in the cloud. Commoditization From AWS & Google Cloud. The platform innovations slowed temporarily, which drove churn higher. The Platform: $0 – $5 Million ARR. Competition in the market rose sharply.

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Making our user storage more scalable and secure

Intercom, Inc.

2011 – MySQL. 2011-2014 – MongoDB. Internally, too, we were suffering – our infrastructure team spent nearly all their time keeping user storage alive, and it was not the sort of problem that we could solve by spending more with AWS. Evaluating AWS Databases. A brief history of user storage.

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Top 30 SaaS Companies in India

SmartKarrot

Found by Manoj Dawane in 2016, VTION is an Indian-origin media technology innovation company that aims at measuring media audiences by analyzing consumer trends and behaviors. Found in 2011 by Sanjoe Jose, Talview is one of the fastest hiring and recruitment software for enterprise employers.

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SaaStr Podcast #385 with Balsa Founder & CEO Paul Rosania

SaaStr

In 2011 I got a call from Andrew Chen to come out and work for him at a startup that he was running, which was my first time working in a very, very rigorous environment, focused on user growth and experimentation. .” And it’s like, when you look at those trying to innovate in serving newly remotely teams.

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