Chart Mogul
JANUARY 28, 2022
A few months ago, we retired our last pieces of infrastructure on DigitalOcean, marking our migration to AWS as complete. Our journey was not your regular AWS migration as it involved moving our infrastructure from classic VMs to containers orchestrated by Kubernetes. Ultimately, we decided to go with AWS. Why move and why now?
SaaStr
AUGUST 8, 2023
In 2014, storage had historically been Dropbox’s most significant cost driver, with hundreds of millions of dollars spent on AWS. Investigate new software designed to automate more tasks and support more strategic initiatives. Gross Margins skyrocketed, and the Strategic Finance team was tasked with improving margins.
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Intercom, Inc.
DECEMBER 31, 2019
Putting narrative order on the past decade, a 10-year-period that has somehow remained stubbornly nameless, is quite the challenge, but it’s impossible to make sense of the 2010s without understanding the role of software. The post The decade software ate the world appeared first on Inside Intercom. Rise of mobile.
Buffer Resources
AUGUST 16, 2023
We shared a post about where your money went when buying a $10 Buffer plan back in 2014 — but it was well time for an update. Since 2014 our team has grown from 34 to 78 team members. Our Average Sale Price (ASP) in 2014 was $13, while our total Operating Costs were $3,575,897.
Intercom, Inc.
NOVEMBER 5, 2019
2011-2014 – MongoDB. 2014-2017 – MongoDB and Elasticsearch. 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. Time to make a change.
Sales Hacker
JUNE 1, 2020
Many of today’s fastest-growing software companies have something in common — their products can sell themselves. According to OpenView — the expansion stage software VC — there are more than 300 mature software companies that have embraced PLG. No Sales was to Atlassian the way no software was to Salesforce. doesn’t it?
OpenView Labs
MARCH 4, 2021
Today we know of HubSpot —the maker of marketing, sales, and service software products—as a preeminent public company with a market cap above $17B. As customers used the software to generate more leads, they would proportionally increase their spend with HubSpot. But HubSpot wasn’t always on the IPO trajectory.
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