SaaStr

AUGUST 27, 2019

Around 2013 or so, the Cloud started to grow far faster than any of us had thought it would: Amazon Web Services revenue 2018 | Statista. 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. The markets took a while to catch up.

Cloud 128

Cloud Azure AWS Enterprise 128

SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

We’re using digital workflows and storing data in the cloud, but the rest of the world, this was an overnight just shift in how people worked and how they communicated. At the exact same time, that company hadn’t moved basic applications to the cloud. So, whether it’s cloud storage or cloud video or messaging.

Sales Recruiting 146

Sales Recruiting Cloud CTO Hire Scale 146

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Chris Degnan: At Snowflake, we built a cloud database from scratch. We started building that in 2012. We are native to the cloud, we are on AWS, we are on Microsoft, Azure, and next year we’ll be on Google Cloud as well. Our founders are PhD’s from Oracle and other major database companies.

Scale 65

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 65

SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

I’m going to get the numbers wrong, I think Amazon has 10,000 open positions out in AWS. I think Azure’s like 7,000, Google. In terms of when, actually, the timing hasn’t changed since the first SaaStr post here in 2012. I think hiring is harder than ever. Jason Lemkin: They don’t want to be the Rio.

Sales Hiring 212

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Scaling 212