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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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Our New Transparent Pricing Dashboard: Where Your Money Goes When You Buy a Buffer Subscription

Buffer Resources

Our hosting costs include service providers like AWS, Cloudflare, MongoDb, Twitter, etc. Looking ahead at our future investments When we look ahead to future years, we anticipate that employee expenses will continue to make up the majority of our Operating Costs. We also plan to continue to invest in paid marketing.

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MongoDB’s Playbook for Breaking Into and Dominating a Market

OpenView Labs

When Francesca joined MongoDB in 2011, the company was going through what she describes as an incredibly hectic and exciting phase of hyper growth. I think there was a month in 2011 or 2012 where we did more events than there were days in the month,” Francesca recalled. Building a developer community from scratch.

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Companies With Usage-Based Pricing Grow 38% Faster

OpenView Labs

So in 2011, they introduced usage-based pricing. They invest in a frictionless customer onboarding experience and high quality support so that new users get hooked on the platform. The name of the game is to invest in activities that are leading indicators of customer health. Something needed to change.

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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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Top 10 Tools to Get Your App PLG-d

Frontegg

Making the bottom-up shift: You are shifting from the top-down to a bottom-up mindset, which means more money and time to invest in R&D efforts. Founded : 2011 Known customers: Facebook, IBM, Microsoft, AWS, Unity, Udemy, Shopify Price starts at: $38/month per user. #2 Also, there is less pressure on Sales.

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Intercom on Product: One for the roadmap

Intercom, Inc.

And that was probably one of the things you invested your time in earliest. And I remember at Facebook, one of the things that I was really impressed by at the time, and we’re going back now to the 2011 era… “I remember Zuck used to talk about two timelines, roughly six months and 20 years. Paul: No comments.