Clouded Judgement

JUNE 19, 2024

The charts below show the change in quarterly revenue YoY (so Q1 ‘24 rev - Q1 ‘23 rev) going back to 2017. It’s worth pointing out that Azure is a bit above the long term trendline, while AWS is still below (but accelerating up). I consider >120% best in class for companies selling to SMBs (like Bill.com).

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SaaStr

JUNE 3, 2020

And G2 Gives, we partner with philanthropies, we partner with some of our customers like AWS and Google Cloud, who can then make donations for every review, to thank their customers. It’s most severe in the SMB world. The situation is getting worse. Godard Abel | Co-Founder and CEO @ G2. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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Software Review Scale Technical Review SaaS 227

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

We’ve all seen AWS and what they’ve done with their platform. Everyone knows Shopify for what it is today, but in the earlier days, it really was the best SaaS platform for SMB eCommerce providers. If you look at the IAS vendors, they passed $130 billion revenue milestone this year. It is staggering.

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Sales Hiring Scale Payments Cloud 216

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 7, 2025

With a background that includes leadership roles at AWS, Microsoft, and Lenovo, Fred brings a wealth of experience in building high-performing teams and driving revenue growth. And I know you’ve had some great experience, particularly while you were at AWS, running different partner sales, channel sales. They cannot resell.

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Outsourcing Services Scale Outsourced Development AWS 113

SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

I’m going to get the numbers wrong, I think Amazon has 10,000 open positions out in AWS. Salesforce was a very rudimentary SMB app for a brief period of time, but it was. The good news for speakers is we can pick; we just say, we said no manels in 2017. I think Azure’s like 7,000, Google.

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Casey Accidental

DECEMBER 11, 2023

I was an advisor to Canva starting in 2017, and got to work with Figma while I was a growth advisor at Greylock, which led the series A investment. Canva was more of a single player and SMB tool. They needed those new products to work, and they did. Let’s look at an example in SaaS.

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Payments Scale Payment Solutions Technical Review 113