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Shopify Says eCommerce is Back. But AWS Says Cloud Under More Scrutiny.

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— Jason Be Kind Lemkin (@jasonlk) October 28, 2022. I’ve also seen this in the leaders in eComm I’ve invested in, like Gorgias. Second, AWS, Azure and Google Cloud all grew nicely, and are still growing like a weed — but the growth rate slowed. — Jamin Ball (@jaminball) October 27, 2022.

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Cloud Stocks May Be Down. But the Cloud Remains on Fire. That Matters More.

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So follow AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. jasonlk) May 16, 2022. And it is stressful, especially if you invested at those peaks or as founders raised money at relatively high valuations and multiples. Let’s look a whole level up to the real canaries-in-the-coalmine: AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. They are the Cloud.

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Clouded Judgement 10.27.23 - Cloud Giants Report Q3 '23

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Subscribe now Cloud Giants Report Q3 ‘23 Not a great signal for software this week from the Cloud Giants (AWS, Azure and Google Cloud)…After Q2 (3 months ago), the tone from the Cloud Giants around optimizations was largely: optimizations have started to ease, and net new workloads have picked up. Staggering scale already.

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Founders Today Just Need to Assume the Next Round Never Comes

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My summary of Venture Markets in Nov 2022: Series B and later even worse than looks in data: 85%+ of investing here has simply ceased. — Jason Be Kind Lemkin (@jasonlk) November 2, 2022. Seed and Early Series A: Deals take longer but off about 40%. Valuations are down a stunning 75% from their peak last year.

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Thanks to ChartMogul, ChurnZero, Cledara, Secureframe, and Verdane for Sponsoring SaaStr Europa 2023!

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We’ll see 2,500+ of the best SaaS founders, execs, and VCs June 6-7 at 2022 SaaStr Europa ! Secureframe allows companies to get compliant within weeks, rather than months and monitors 100+ services, including AWS, GCP, and Azure. Grab tickets here. . Join these incredible companies to experience all the value of SaaStr!

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Clouded Judgement 1.6.23

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Cloud Downgrades This week UBS came out with a couple research reports citing concerns in AWS / Azure growth. If we rewind back the clock to the start of 2022 the big debate was rates. This brings me back to AWS / Azure downgrades. Inflation was starting to run rampant and we knew rates were going up.

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Clouded Judgement 10.28.22

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Hyperscalers Report Quarterly Earnings This week we saw AWS (Amazon), GCP (Google) and Azure (Microsoft) report earnings. At the same time, Azure came in below expectations. Azure called out an incremental $800m of costs expected throughout the year (they just finished their Fiscal Q1). The economy grew 2.6%

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