Clouded Judgement

AUGUST 11, 2023

From a new logo bookings perspective, we had our largest Q2 and second largest quarter ever, only behind the seasonally larger Q4 2022.” And everyone hoping for AI acceleration will need to wait. The hyperscalers (AWS, Azure, GCP) are seeing some uptick, but this is largely from selling compute (ie cloud GPUs).

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Clouded Judgement

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The rise of foundation models and generative AI only furthers this trend. But this isn’t another post about AI, it’s about the future of data infrastructure. As Frank Slootman (Snowflake CEO) said, “Enterprises are also realizing that they cannot have an AI strategy without a data strategy to base it on.”

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Buffer Resources

AUGUST 16, 2023

In 2022, our ASP was $20, and our Operating Costs hit $19,757,852. Our hosting costs include service providers like AWS, Cloudflare, MongoDb, Twitter, etc. Another area we anticipate we will continue to invest in is AI. Another important detail to note is how Average Sales Price (ASP) and Expenses have changed over time.

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

billion by 2022. 28% of IT spending will shift to the cloud by 2022. Running your own server to handle your customer's valuable data requires a huge investment to match the same level of security and reliability that comes baked into services like Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure cloud. AI Integrations. billion of that.

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2025

The latest one is all AI with a big enterprise / B2B slant and is very good but dense. AI User Adoption Is Literally Unprecedented We know this, but still, the numbers do sort of blow your mind: ChatGPT: 0 to 800MM weekly users in 17 months (vs. Every B2B and SaaS company now competes in a global, AI-enabled market from Day 1.

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Before 2023, the term “generative AI” was met with blank faces. But over the past 12 months, Open AI’s ChatGPT has gone mainstream, Twitter has become X, Silicon Valley Bank collapsed, as did FTX, and WeWork… How many of these did you see coming? Polis Pilavas , VP Engineering at ChartMogul “AI will dominate and disrupt.

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Scytale

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Enhanced Accuracy According to Verizon’s 2022 Data Breaches report, human error contributes to 82% of data breaches. But which factors play the biggest role in finding a Drata or Vanta alternative?

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SaaStr

MAY 23, 2025

So we were back on 20VC this week in our Latest in Tech deep dive with Harry Stebbings and Rory O’Driscoll of Scale: “The State of SaaS 2025: IPOs, AI, and the Coming Shakeout” The IPO Window Is Cracking Open (Finally) Chime’s $1.67B revenue IPO is the canary in the coal mine. A fund returner is simply not enough.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 13, 2025

How Yext evolved from managing listings to powering AI-ready data pipelines. Actionable steps SaaS companies can take to optimize for AI agents and search diversification. 14:30 The new battleground: how AI engines like ChatGPT shape discoverability. 22:00 Why structured data is the foundation of AI-first marketing.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Since Michael founded the firm in 2004, it has grown to over 30 offices worldwide, and they’ve worked with Intel, AWS, and Salesforce, among many other well-known brands. Pricing Strategies to Combat Stagflation 2022 Emerging SaaS Customer Markets How FastSpring Can Help FastSpring helps SaaS and software companies sell around the world.

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Panintelligence

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

And losses from Authorized Push Payment (APP) fraud totalled nearly £500 million in 2022. You must constantly be innovating, and companies will be spending more and more on this for an awful long time." This figure, having risen by 15% over three years, shows how cybercrime is really putting the squeeze on businesses financially.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

Five people in the digital team were looking at blockchain projects and three people on that digital team were looking for long term AI transformation. If there’s a social security number and other pieces of AI, then automatically it’s limited to this org or this subset of the org. Is AWS in the lead?

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How To Buy Saas

JUNE 3, 2025

Once-dominant ChatGPT (GPT-4) sparked a global AI race, and by 2025 there are powerful new alternatives. Companies now weigh dozens of LLMs each with its own strengths when choosing AI to enhance products and automate workflows. The Rise of GPT Competitors Since ChatGPTs 2022 debut, many GPT competitors have emerged.

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How To Buy Saas

MARCH 4, 2025

Corporate & Tech Employees: ~350,000 (software engineers, AWS, finance, etc.). This includes full-time and part-time employees across all Amazon business units, from warehouse workers in fulfillment centers to software engineers working on AWS. million 2022 ~1.54 However, Amazons tech workforce (AWS, AI, Alexa, etc.)

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How To Buy Saas

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

is OpenAIs newest Generative Pre-trained Transformer model, unveiled as a research preview in late February 2025 Its essentially an upgrade to the powerful GPT-4 model, aimed at making AI responses feel more natural, knowledgeable, and reliable. But what does that mean for an AI? OpenAI describes GPT-4.5 Initially, access to GPT-4.5

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