SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

373: Bessemer’s 5th Annual State of the Cloud Report returns for a definitive look at the cloud industry today. We want to take you through the cloud journey over the last several years. Now, the cloud index fell along with it. If you go back to before 2014, what you see is the power of the cloud.

Sales Hiring 210

Sales Hiring Scale Payments Cloud 210

Sales Hacker

APRIL 1, 2025

Um, the goal was to bring all of those assets of Azure Modern Workplace, the business application side together, build a really powerful data set, um, all within that common data platform on Azure. Azure and how much consumption you’re driving there and transacting through their marketplaces. And, um, I made the jump.

Scale 62

Scale VP of Engineering Outsourcing Services Enterprise 62

OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Meanwhile, the global public cloud software as a service (SaaS) market is hitting an annual run rate of $100B in 2019 and forecast to grow to US $157 billion in 2020, more than doubling the market size from 2014. Cloud services spending is also fueling the data center hardware and software market to grow to $150 billion.

Trends 40

Trends Marketing SaaS Azure 40

Chart Mogul

JANUARY 28, 2022

Since our inception in 2014 and up to mid-2021, our entire infrastructure has run on DigitalOcean droplets (self-managed cloud virtual machines). We needed a cloud provider to get us off the ground quickly, reliably, and cost-effectively. Lack of modern cloud features and managed services. Life with DigitalOcean.

K8S orchestration (Kubernetes) 52

K8S orchestration (Kubernetes) AWS EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 52

Sales Hacker

MARCH 25, 2025

Previously, he was the Global VP of Product for SAP, CRM and Sales Cloud. Before that, he was the CEO and Co-Founder of DataHug, which was acquired by Calidus Cloud in 2016. Previously to that, it was the global VP of product for SAP, focused on the CRM and sales cloud. They didn’t have to build their own cloud.

AI Search 65

AI Search AI Scale Software 65

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 31, 2019

The most triumphant transfer of control from an original generation leader to a new CEO was surely that of Microsoft, which pivoted from chasing after Apple’s success in the consumer space under Steve Ballmer (don’t mention Nokia ) to successfully focusing on the cloud under Satya Nadella (please do mention Azure). Rise of mobile.

Payment Solutions 259

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Software SaaS Payments 259

SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2022

CloudCherry is a cloud-based CRM ( customer relationship management ) company that assists its clients’ tracking and enhancing their customer engagement. Found in 2011 by Ashish Thusoo and Joydeep Sen Sarma, Qubole works on developing a “cloud-based data lake platform for self-service AI.” CloudCherry.

SaaS Payments 11

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payments 11