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Gas Gas Revolution

Tom Tunguz

In 2021, Amazon announced they had reduced prices on Amazon Web Services 107 times since launch. This drop in prices has grown AWS into a $90b revenue business in 17 years. In 2021, at the peak, the average quarterly gas fee on Ethereum reached about $37. The cost to save data to a blockchain is called gas.

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Is it Really ARR? In 2021+, Yes. As Long As NRR is > 100%

SaaStr

We could have picked many B2D services, like Twilio or others, too, which have primarily or substantial transaction pricing too. First, Snowflake rolls its large customers into fixed comittments (as does AWS and many others), and bills them in advance. In 2021+, Yes. And second, it blends together to a stunning 162% NRR.

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Gartner: Software Spend Will Grow 13.8% in 2024, to Over $1 Trillion For The First Time

SaaStr

On top of that, inflation and price increases are eating into overall IT budgets. Growth in public cloud services (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Snowflake, etc.) will grow the fastest at 20.4%, and price increases and increased utilization at existing vendors will consume a significant amount of that growth. With some big caveats.

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What Are Public SaaS Companies Taken Private At? 7.7x ARR On Average Per SaaSomomics

SaaStr

Well, certainly it exploded in 2021, in my portfolio at least, if perhaps not as dramatically as in the public markets. The startup I invested in that were acquired by PE in the 2020-2021 Boom were acquired for 8x in one case, 12x in another, and 15x in a third. The prices would be lower today for the latter two I suspect.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Digital Ocean at $700,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

Many have used Digital Ocean at the cheaper, simpler version of AWS-Azure-Digital Ocean to get going fast and quickly. ARPU was up +28% from 2022 over 2021, and another 6% the past 12 months on top of that. Almost All Customers Still from Self-Service This makes sense at these price points. It’s gotten crazy good.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Semrush at $290,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

So there was a quiet SaaS IPO you may have missed in the craziness of 2021 — SEMRush, a tool your marketing department quite likely uses to keep track of the performance of your SEO and marketing site. The classic “high-end of self-service” price point. 2022 Growth Was Down from 2021, But Almost the Same as 2020.

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The Top 10 SaaStr Posts of 2020

SaaStr

3. “Atlassian and AWS Say: Maybe Worry a Little Bit. Atlassian and AWS, two of the greats, may hold a clue: Atlassian and AWS Say: “Maybe Worry a Little Bit” 4. “A Framework For Your First SaaS Sales Comp Plan” A SaaStr Classic, still going strong in 2020. More on that soon!