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Slack moves video and voice calls to AWS

IT World

AWS is already Slack’s “preferred” cloud infrastructure provider, and the two companies have a common rival in Microsoft, competing with its Azure and Teams products, respectively. Chime was launched by AWS in 2017 , but hasn’t grabbed attention in the same way as communication tools such as Zoom and Microsoft Teams in subsequent years.

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SaaS Multiples Are At a 3+ Year Low. Where It Goes From Here.

SaaStr

Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and even Google Cloud are on fire, adding insane amounts of revenue this year. The point is that SaaS multiples are still higher than where they were from 2010-2017. Draw a straight line and assume multiples gradually expand at the same rate as they were growing from 2017-2019.

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10 Observations from Dropbox's S1

The Angel VC

4 – More than half a million $ per head As of December 31, 2017, Dropbox had 1,858 employees. Revenue for 2017 was $1.107B. 6 – A unicorn’s worth of office rent “In October 2017, we entered into a new lease agreement to rent office space in San Francisco, California, to serve as our new corporate headquarters. Mind blown.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Fastly. As It Gets Ready to IPO.

SaaStr

We all know this from AWS and Twilio on down, but Fastly is a visceral reminder. Ringcentral was very slow to go global, while Fastly had 40% of its revenue from international even in 2017. It’s also a great one to learn from, at $200m+ ARR ($45.5m 5+ learnings for founders: Developers control a lot of spend today.

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AWS beefs up SageMaker machine learning

IT World

Launched at the Amazon’s re:invent conference in 2017 , SageMaker aims to make machine learning adoption simpler for customers by bringing together a hosted environment for Jupyter notebooks with built-in model management, automated spin up of training environments in Amazon S3, and HTTPS endpoints for hosting capabilities using EC2 instances.

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Pitchbook & IVP: Top Tier SaaS Companies Usually Raise at 15x ARR. It Was 114x in 2021.

SaaStr

So the minor point is maybe we’re just back to 2016-2017 in SaaS venture capital for Series A and later rounds. Even If It’s Awful for Series A-E Rounds. For the best ones. But the bigger point is especially for new founders and execs to just look at the chart above. But not that much better on the multiple side.

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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