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Successes and Setbacks on the Road to $1B with Alessio Artuffo, President and COO at Docebo

SaaStr

Customers range from AWS skills-builder platforms with billions of users to Zoom using it for customers and employees. Docebo was started and funded in 2005 and became a SaaS player in 2012. In 2012, they started with a freemium model where people could go online with a credit card and pay $100 a month. Let’s dive into it.

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Going Big in Venture Capital

SaaStr

years ago in the first few months of SaaStr.com, in November 2012. A look back at sort of the same thing, same top fund, 10 years earlier, from 2012: I had a draft post I’d written weeks ago entitled something like “Color: Just an Enormously Large Seed Round Gone Horribly Wrong”, or something like that.

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When did cloud computing start to become popular?

SaaStr

That $200b+ of additional Cloud and SaaS spend fueled 50+ Cloud unicorns and massive growth in AWS, Azure, etc. We all knew before 2012–2013 it would be big. It turned our CIOs and bigger companies were ready to transfer as much as another 20% of their $1 trillion+ IT budgets to Cloud far faster than any of us knew. But not this big.

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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. This means our software is hosted on the cloud and used over an internet connection via a web browser or mobile app. Merchant Fees At Buffer, we rely on Stripe, Google, and Apple for our payment processing needs. Stripe payments make up 98.5

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The SaaS Trust Crisis with Godard Abel (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And G2 Gives, we partner with philanthropies, we partner with some of our customers like AWS and Google Cloud, who can then make donations for every review, to thank their customers. And now, he’s an investor, but in 2012, he coined this very famous quote that, “Software is eating the world.”

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Top 10 Tools to Get Your App PLG-d

Frontegg

Founded : 2011 Known customers: Facebook, IBM, Microsoft, AWS, Unity, Udemy, Shopify Price starts at: $38/month per user. #2 Founded: 2012 Known customers: Amazon, Louis Vuitton, Global Citizen, Hilton Worldwide Price starts at: $35/month. #9 Best For: Product Adoption. You even get interactive video conversation makers.

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MongoDB’s Playbook for Breaking Into and Dominating a Market

OpenView Labs

I think there was a month in 2011 or 2012 where we did more events than there were days in the month,” Francesca recalled. This is smart because the AWS market is massive, and with their positioning, Datadog has the ability to go after it and eat it up.”. We determined early on that social proof was the most effective tool we had.