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The Week in Cloud: March 17, 2019

SaaStr

Acquisition multiples in SaaS/Cloud doubled last year. The post The Week in Cloud: March 17, 2019 appeared first on SaaStr. The Week in Cloud: A look at the stories in Cloud, SaaS, and business software that we found particularly useful and interesting. Big or small. __. A huge donation, driven by the Cloud: [link].

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The Week In Cloud: March 24, 2019

SaaStr

Alibaba is their AWS (or becoming it): The Cloud is better. Billion Acquisition. Another Grows in France: The post The Week In Cloud: March 24, 2019 appeared first on SaaStr. Clippy was AI before AI: China is a whole different world for SaaS. It is even cheaper. That doesn’t mean it is cheap, tough. This is a Big Deal.

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Is Tableu and Salesforce an expensive deal for Salesforce?

SaaStr

Tableau Reports First Quarter 2019 Financial Results. And Salesforce doesn’t seem to screw up its bigger acquisitions. There aren’t that many things of true scale, that are strategic, that Salesforce could buy at this stage. Tableau was at >$900m in recurring revenue … growing 41% (!). And subscriptions were growing 115%.

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The Sendgrid Journey: Scaling From Growth Stage to $2B Acquisition in 4 Years (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

In this session, Anna and Sameer will highlight SendGrid’s journey from growth stage through acquisition and why focusing on people and culture is mission critical to success as a company goes through the scaling process. I’m Sameer Dholakia, CEO of now Twilio SendGrid as of Friday after our completed acquisition.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Byron Deeter, Elliott Robinson, Henry Schuck, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

If you look back on February 5th, 2019, which was the SaaStr Annual, hopefully many of you were there in person, we gave the state of the cloud presentation and talked about the power of the industry, and the power that’s been building in terms of market capitalization of just the public cloud companies and what they show.

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Why Self-Service and Product-Led Growth Won’t Replace Sales [Opinion]

Sales Hacker

This is part of a phenomenon called Product Led Growth (PLG) , an end-user growth model that relies on the product itself to be the primary driver of customer acquisition, conversion, and expansion. Flash forward to 2019, and the company grew sales headcount by 66% year-on-year, which is twice the rate of other roles (31%). doesn’t it?

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More Focus on SaaS Gross Margins in 2020

OPEXEngine

The main drivers of the cost reductions are: Hosting expense, the primary component of COR, has become more competitive, with extensive use of AWS and other hosting and network services. Source: OPEXEngine EdgarEngine 2019. Source: OPEXEngine EdgarEngine 2019. Source: OPEXEngine EdgarEngine 2019.

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