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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Outreach and OverView — December 20, 2019

SaaStr

Befofe that Manny was a Senior Product Manager @ Amazon where he engineered the compensation system for Amazon Associates and Web-Services which accounts for 15% of Amazon’s traffic. This interview originally aired as Episode 229 on April 29, 2019. This podcast is an excerpt from Ashley’s session at SaaStr Europa 2019.

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Measurement: What SaaS platform builders need to know to prepare for growth, Part 3

CloudGeometry

The intensity of competition in the SaaS marketplace puts a premium on new, stable, and reliable features. State of DevOps Report, DORA Research Institute, 2019 The latest iteration of the study was launched in May 2021. The winners offer a better and faster way to solve customer problems.

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Entering the Chinese market? Here’s how to do it cloud-first

IT World

Unsurprisingly, the Chinese cloud market is dominated by local players, with IDC figures showing Aliyun (also known as Alibaba Cloud) holding 42 percent of the public cloud marketplace in 2018, followed by Tencent Cloud at 12 percent, China Telecom with 9 percent, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) close behind with 6 percent.

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The SaaS Trust Crisis with Godard Abel (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

It’s 2020 and SaaS buyers are more skeptical and suspicious, more disbelieving, more unconvinced than they were in 2019. The SaaS Trust Crisis is making it harder to market and sell software and services than ever before. com, where we’re building, deleting software marketplace, we’re also seeing software booming.

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Create Pricing Models Like AWS and Twilio with Events-Based Billing

Chargify

Backed by an army of developers, data engineers, and finance professionals, this events-based billing model allowed these large companies to directly link the value that their services provided with the cost presented on a customer’s invoice. What Amazon Web Services and Twilio Get Right. How AWS Does It.

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Q&A with Maria Pergolino, Anthony Kennada, Aaron Ross and Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And I remember being at that Dreamforce in 2009, which was awful. Our monthly self-service churn went from like 3% to like 9%, right? It’s just a superpower in 2019. ” I’m like, that sounds awful. We’re seeing that the marketplace is becoming like more and more noisy, right? We were wrong.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week: May 3, 2019

SaaStr

Before that Manny was a Senior Product Manager @ Amazon where he engineered the compensation system for Amazon Associates and Web-Services which accounts for 15% of Amazon’s traffic. CEOs everywhere are seeking to innovate, but 81% say their teams are not equipped to meet the challenges needed to compete in today’s marketplace.