Clouded Judgement
APRIL 11, 2024
It looks at the YoY dollar change in quarterly revenue from the hyperscalers (just looking at Azure / AWS because the data goes back further) going back a few years. If we break this down and look at Azure and AWS independently (graphs below), you’ll see how the AWS “swings” were a lot more volatile.
Clouded Judgement
JUNE 9, 2023
Very healthy new business (new customer) acquisition. Coming out of earning season I’m slightly more optimistic about a back half acceleration (August or later) than I was coming in. The Good Mongo: Very Positive - Is The Bottom Behind Them? They guided to 26-27% growth in Azure in Q2 (with 1% coming from AI).
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Clouded Judgement
MARCH 22, 2024
For SaaS businesses that target smaller SMB customer segments, gross retention is typically in the mid to low 80’s with net expansion in the ~105% range. And once a customer has paid back the initial acquisitions costs to acquire it, all future streams of revenue can loosely be described as a cash flow annuity.
Sales Hacker
AUGUST 7, 2020
Senior Vice President, Sales SMB. Sales Manager, SMB New Business Acquisition. VP, SMB Essentials Sales. Amazon Web Services (AWS). Head of Sales – SMB New Business Acquisition. Team Lead, North America – Global Marketing Solutions. Laura Mason Hoad. Faiza Hughell. RingCentral. Salesforce.
Intercom, Inc.
DECEMBER 13, 2018
I saw we had the opportunity to do that in London and to do something that will be new for Facebook, in the same way that AWS was a new business model and product line for Amazon and a bet that paid off very well. We are going from having an enterprise business to having a mid-market business to investing in an SMB business.
SaaStr
JUNE 1, 2021
The other thing that dropped our odds of success was the fact that we were focused on small business, on the SMB market, and everyone we talked to, literally everyone. Do not…,” and the reason is no one hardly ever has succeeded in building a big business in SMB. I’m paraphrasing… [laughter].
Casey Accidental
DECEMBER 11, 2023
Acquisition, retention, and monetization potential of your first product is another reason B2B tends to expand earlier. From a customer acquisition perspective, the companies grew in very different ways too. Pinterest significantly evolved how its core product worked, changing both the acquisition and retention loops over time.
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