Clouded Judgement

MARCH 22, 2024

In it's truest form, ARR is used by pure SaaS business models to describe the aggregate annual value of the entire customer set. Many laude the SaaS business model because ARR is inherently predictable - you know what you’re revenue will be over the coming 12 months, and sometimes even further out than that.

AI 183

AI Revenue Cloud Technical Advisors 183

Clouded Judgement

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

When I think about the monetization of AI (and which “layers” monetize first) I’ve always thought it would follow the below order, with each layer lagging the one that comes before it. Model providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc as companies start building out AI). 2024 will be the year of AI applications!

Cloud 183

Cloud Artificial Intelligence AI GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 183

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 31, 2019

The ultimate failure of Siri to dominate the AI personal assistant game might come to be seen as its biggest miss of the decade. Google, too, saw a smooth transfer of power from its founders to a new CEO, Sundar Pichai, while also strengthening its core business of search advertising and reorganizing under Alphabet.

Payment Solutions 259

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Software SaaS Payments 259

OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

This is why we’re seeing more and more SaaS companies—Datadog, Twilio, AWS, Snowflake, and Stripe, to name a few—find success with product led growth paired with usage-based pricing. But growing with a usage-model is not as straightforward as traditional subscription SaaS. Then they tell their boss what to buy. Land-and-expand is real.

Scale 98

Scale Pricing Scaling AWS 98

ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

By almost all key metrics, now is a great time to get into the SaaS business model. 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.

SaaS Payments 66

SaaS Payments Trends Merchant Services Payments 66

User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

It’s suitable for businesses wanting control over their infrastructure and the ability to scale. Key examples are Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, which provide scalable resources like virtual servers and storage. What are the benefits of the SaaS model?

SaaS Payments 104

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Methods Payment Solutions 104

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?

Sales Recruiting 146

Sales Recruiting Cloud CTO Hire Scale 146