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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. But then in 2023 — it just plummeted.

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SaaS Rule of 40 Drivers Using KeyBanc’s 2021 SaaS Survey

SaaStr

.” Fortunately, the always excellent KeyBanc Capital Markets (KBCM) 2021 SaaS Survey – which covers over 350 private SaaS companies across various stages and categories – provides a very rich data set to work from. In equation form, Revenue Growth % + Profit Margin % > 40%.

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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. But it’s raining cash, and earnings per share is growing 22% — faster than revenue. ARPU was up +28% from 2022 over 2021, and another 6% the past 12 months on top of that. Or at least. Or at least.

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Clouded Judgement 7.28.23 - Optimization Cycles and Economy Update

Clouded Judgement

AI = Data + Compute I’ll continue beating this drum, but we got two great quotes from Azure and AWS this week. This week we had two of the hypserscalers report (Microsoft / Azure and Google / GCP), and everyone was eager to see their results. What happened in 2021 is that phase 2 (expansion of usage) was turbo charged.

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A Flare Across the Clouds : Cloudflare's Earnings Report

Tom Tunguz

Large customer revenue contribution increased again sequentially to 63% of revenue, up from 57% in the fourth quarter last year. 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.

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SaaS Multiples Are At a 3+ Year Low. Where It Goes From Here.

SaaStr

Ultimately — revenue multiples. Revenue multiples are how much VCs, investors, and ultimately, an IPO and public markets will value each dollar of revenue. Revenue multiples don’t affect customers, or even revenue itself. That revenue multiples should rise from where they were in 2019.

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Gartner: SaaS Spending Will Grow Another 40% in Next 2 Years Alone

SaaStr

Cloud software spending grew a stunning 23% in 2021, from $270 billion to $330 billion. In my 148 public SaaS companies (including most of the categories of this list but not AWS, Azure, GCP) the aggregate revenue is $185B. — Gabriel Colominas (@GabrielCoBi) April 27, 2021. One thing we know — Fast.