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. Team expertise.
Intercom, Inc.
DECEMBER 31, 2019
Inspired by Andreessen’s maxim, in 2014 Benedict Evans coined the phrase “ Mobile is eating the world ,” which in retrospect feels like it downplayed just how much our daily lives have become consumed by our smartphones. . It is very possible that no other company has done as much to shape our decade as Jeff Bezos’s behemoth. Rise of mobile.
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Tom Tunguz
NOVEMBER 17, 2014
The concept of negative churn is a bit amorphous so let’s illustrate the impact on a startup. This startup acquires 100 customers per month, each paying $1 per month to use the product. In the 5% monthly churn case, the startup exits 2014 with $919 in MRR (monthly recurring revenue) and the typical customer is worth $77.
SaaStr
OCTOBER 31, 2019
Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. Retail was mentioned twice, that’s it, and AWS was mentioned 78 times, so it’s probably not surprising that they’re doing this. I think it’s a really staggering stat.
SaaStr
AUGUST 8, 2023
This function can be outsourced in the early days of a startup, but it is usually brought in-house after Series B. In 2014, storage had historically been Dropbox’s most significant cost driver, with hundreds of millions of dollars spent on AWS. They will also take charge during an audit if the situation arises.
SaaStr
JANUARY 28, 2020
So, Aaron and I wrote a book together in 2014 or something. And then I’ve watched, since she made this comment to me about 13 months ago, then I’ve watched with some startups I’ve worked with, where the first marketing hire comes in, and I asked them what their top five priorities are, and then I asked the CEO.
SaaStr
DECEMBER 13, 2019
Harry Stebbings: And so with that, I’m super excited to welcome Yousuf Khan, serial CIO, startup and VC advisor. I’d taken lots of trips and managed a team out there and I decided to basically make the move to the Bay Area in 2014 as a CIO for a company called Qualys. It’s that simple. I was super excited by it.
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