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We End the Year at All-Time Lows for SaaS Growth. A Buying Signal — Or The End of an Era?

SaaStr

And broader Cloud players had great years too, from MongoDB to Cloudflare to Azure, if not quite as crazy as at the peak of 2021. And Gartner still predicts overall Cloud spend will grow to record rates in 2024. But at some point, perhaps, Cloud spend will be so saturated, it just has to slow.

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Pilot: 57% of Venture Startups Will Need to Raise More In 2024

SaaStr

Folks that raised in the Go-Go Times of 2021 in many cases have been able to stretch their cash through 2023. SaaS and Cloud growth overall will remain strong. Shopify , Datadog, Crowdstrike , Google Cloud-Azure-AWS, Snowflake , etc. But also focus on the prize at the same time — record Cloud spend.

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A Flare Across the Clouds : Cloudflare's Earnings Report

Tom Tunguz

For fiscal 2022, large customers represented 61% of total revenue compared to 54% of total revenue in 2021 and 46% in 2020… Overall NDR fell, but enterprise spending remains steady. AI companies] have a real use case for the cloud which is somewhat different than what we see from some other companies.

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

SaaStr

If you’re selling cloud infrastructure, for the most part, growth may be down a smidge but is still strong, e.g., MongoDB. Growth in public cloud services (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Snowflake, etc.) Growth in public cloud services (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Snowflake, etc.)

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Clouded Judgement 7.28.23 - Optimization Cycles and Economy Update

Clouded Judgement

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. AI = Data + Compute I’ll continue beating this drum, but we got two great quotes from Azure and AWS this week. Cycle of Cloud Optimizations Q2 earning season has officially kicked off! Follow along to stay up to date!

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

SaaStr

So is it possible to be too efficient in SaaS and Cloud? 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. And if so, maybe that’s Digital Ocean.

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Clouded Judgement 5.26.23

Clouded Judgement

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Azure / Confluent / Datadog reported a few weeks back (they all had March quarter ends), and their commentary suggested the worst was behind us. In 2020 and 2021, it was growth at all costs and the mentality was let it rip.

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