Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

“AWS’ AI business is a multibillion-dollar revenue run rate business that continues to grow at a triple-digit year-over-year percentage and is growing more than 3x faster at this stage of its evolution as AWS itself grew, and we felt like AWS grew pretty quickly.” Azure 26 33 26.9% GCP 23 35 52.2%

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 25, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Ray Smith is the VP of AI Agents at Microsoft. Ray breaks down why the rise of AI agents is a tectonic shift, how businesses are already seeing ROI, and what it means for SaaS, team structure, and go-to-market strategies.

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Clouded Judgement

APRIL 26, 2024

Subscribe now Azure Report - Cloud Infra Looks Good! For software, all eyes were on Azure - which grew 31% YoY (ahead of expectations closer to 29%). Azure doesn’t disclose exact Azure quarterly revenue (they disclose growth rate in absolute terms and in constant currency), but there are good estimations.

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SaaStr

APRIL 26, 2024

At SaaStr AI Day , Mike Tamir, Head of AI at Shopify, and Rudina Seseri, founder and Managing Partner at Glasswing Ventures, level-set about where we are in the cycle for Enterprises adopting AI and the critical work being done at Shopify to leverage AI and solve real problems. The future of Enterprise is “Ambient AI.”

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 2, 2024

In the past, the bigger the AI model, the better the performance. GPT4 3/14/23 1760 0.864 But model performance will soon asymptote - at least on this metric. GPT4 3/14/23 1760 0.864 But model performance will soon asymptote - at least on this metric. OpenAI Model Release Date Parameters, B MMLU GPT2 2/14/19 1.5 3/15/22 175 0.7

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Clouded Judgement

JUNE 19, 2024

Through these interactions, I’ve built up mental benchmarks for metrics on which I place extra emphasis. My hope is that this analysis can provide startup entrepreneurs with a framework for how to manage their businesses around SaaS metrics (e.g., This metric is more self-explanatory, so I won’t go into detail.

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Clouded Judgement

MARCH 22, 2024

Subscribe now ARR (Annual Recurring Revenue) vs ERR (Experimental Runrate Revenue) ARR (Annual Recurring Revenue) is one of the most popular SaaS (Non-GAAP) metrics. However, it’s also one of the most loosely used metrics, and is frequently misused. This brings me to AI (everything leads to AI these days…).

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Turning to our customer metrics in the fourth quarter. AI companies] have a real use case for the cloud which is somewhat different than what we see from some other companies. Today, our largest R2 customer is another AI company using us for exactly the purpose of being a neutral place to store their training data.

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Clouded Judgement

OCTOBER 27, 2023

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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Clouded Judgement

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

” Microsoft on Azure : “And I think last quarter, we said one, we are going to continue to have these cycles where people will build new workloads. So what you're seeing is much more of that continuous cycles by customers, both when it comes to AI or whether it comes to the traditional workloads.”

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 21, 2024

Generative AI took the consumer landscape by storm in 2023, reaching over a billion dollars of consumer spend 1 in record time. Over the past couple months, we’ve spoken with dozens of Fortune 500 and top enterprise leaders , 2 and surveyed 70 more, to understand how they’re using, buying, and budgeting for generative AI.

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Clouded Judgement

AUGUST 2, 2024

Cloud Giants Report Q2 We also got the Q2 quarters from AWS / Azure / GCP this week! Our expectation, obviously again, is that we are going to significantly increase our investments in AI infrastructure next year, and we'll give further guidance as appropriate.” Revenue multiples are a shorthand valuation framework.

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Clouded Judgement

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Hyperscaler Preview Next week Amazon, Microsoft and Google report earnings and we’ll see Q3 data for AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. These are thought to be the early AI winners, largely due to all of the compute they’re selling to power GenAI applications. Revenue multiples are a shorthand valuation framework.

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Clouded Judgement

APRIL 11, 2024

Through these interactions, I’ve built up mental benchmarks for metrics on which I place extra emphasis. My hope is that this analysis can provide startup entrepreneurs with a framework for how to manage their businesses around SaaS metrics (e.g., Who are the real AI winners. net retention and CAC payback).

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Clouded Judgement

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Subscribe now Foundation Models Are to AI what S3 was to the Public Cloud Many people look at 2006 as the birth of the public cloud - the year Amazon launched AWS. Microsoft launched Azure in 2010, and Google launched GCP to the public in 2011 (they launched a preview of Google App Engine in 2008, but made it publicly available in 2011).

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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!

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Clouded Judgement

APRIL 28, 2023

AWS (Amazon), Azure (Microsoft), and Google Cloud (Google) all reported this week. Azure reported on Tuesday and gave us that glimmer of hope. Azure : Coming into the quarter, a growth rate that would have satisfied the market would have been ~29%. Azure came in at 31% (constant currency). Follow along to stay up to date!

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Clouded Judgement

MAY 31, 2024

.” As growth starts to slow, it gets harder and harder to justify using revenue multiples as a primary valuation metric. And when this happens, growth companies transition to more of a value based valuation metric (FCF or PE). In theory, companies in ex-growth mode are starting to hit the outer bounds of their maturity curve.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

This conversation is part of our AI Revolution series, which features some of the most impactful builders in the field of AI discussing and debating where we are, where we’re going, and the big open questions in AI. Find more content from our AI Revolution series on www.a16z.com/AIRevolution.

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Clouded Judgement

JUNE 9, 2023

Usage on Snowflake is driven by queries run on Snowflake Azure: Neutral Tone With Strength in AI Overall I’d characterize Azure’s quarter as a net positive. ” They’re also seeing some real strength in AI Services. They guided to 26-27% growth in Azure in Q2 (with 1% coming from AI).

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Clouded Judgement

MAY 10, 2024

So far - you’re either tied to AI tailwinds, or it’s rough out there. And in the public universe, it’s really only been the hyperscalers who’ve benefited from AI. Given most software companies are not profitable, or not generating meaningful FCF, it’s the only metric to compare the entire industry against.

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Clouded Judgement

JULY 28, 2023

AI = Data + Compute I’ll continue beating this drum, but we got two great quotes from Azure and AWS this week. Satya at Microsoft said “Every AI app starts with data and having a comprehensive data and analytics platform is more important than ever.” Subscribe now Busy week! AWS reports next week.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 25, 2021

These tools should help you understand your business in more detail, including important metrics, inventory, and sales numbers. It can identify market trends, uncover insights, determine outliers, and monitor crucial business metrics. You should be able to identify problem areas, along with ways to improve them. System Integration.

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Clouded Judgement

AUGUST 11, 2023

If next quarter we get similar commentary that Azure gave us this quarter (“still a couple quarters away” without any specific guidance), then we may see market loose a little patience. And everyone hoping for AI acceleration will need to wait. The question is how patient will they be waiting for this?

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SaaStr

JUNE 26, 2024

The three worlds are: B2B2C B2B2B AI And then there are folks in impacted categories like ZoomInfo , where things haven’t really improved. And there’s AI. Jason tweeted WTF because many things are happening in AI, like 200x ARR rounds. A lot of the funding rounds for AI feel like 2021 again, but only for this subset of people.

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Clouded Judgement

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

We have companies like BuzzFeed and C3 making loose announcements about how they will incorporate generative AI into their business, sending their stocks up 50-100%+. In the short term, enjoy the ride as the chase continues 😊 Kind of related to all of this - we now have seen the Q4’s from AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.

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User Pilot

MAY 30, 2023

This will help you unpack the ‘why’ behind customer behavior, monitor important metrics and progress toward KPIs, and most importantly, make data-driven decisions rather than rely on guesswork. Lytics A CDP built for customer-centric experiences, Lytics is the first CDP with native AI built-in. Microsoft Azure dashboard.

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OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

While we aren’t going 100% usage-based overnight, if you look at some of the mega-trends in software—things like automation, AI, and APIs—the value of a product normally doesn’t scale with more folks logging in. Pick the right usage metric. There are many usage metrics you could use in your pricing. Land-and-expand is real.

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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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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Social media, for instance, has metrics such as engagement and likes, whereas email marketing focuses more on open rates and click-throughs. Website analytics – Your website will have metrics that can inform on everything from design to marketing.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

After collecting data, diagnostic analytics uses data mining to interpret the metrics and make sense of the “why” behind them. H2O Driverless AI uses machine learning workflows to help you make business and product decisions. Alteryx is a platform for data scientists and data analysts.

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Artificial Intelligence Data Software Review Machine Learning 98

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Azure has been gaining on them rapidly and is growing a double that rate. Number two, we really want companies to report and track these metrics early. What we’ve built is this core AI machine learning engine that takes literally millions and millions of unique sources so that we can deliver 95% accuracy to our clients.

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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.

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User Pilot

JULY 25, 2024

To excel, leverage resources like books (e.g., “Python for Data Analysis”), webinars (Data Science Salon, BrightTALK), blogs (Data Science Central, KD Nuggets), podcasts (Lex Fridman Podcast, Data Skeptic), and certifications (Senior Data Scientist (SDS), Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Scientist Associate, etc.).

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User Pilot

MAY 27, 2025

Custom Dashboards Build and share dashboards to monitor key metrics and team KPIs. AI-Powered Analysis Automatically transcribe, summarize, and highlight key moments in qualitative data using AI. Maze AI Utilize AI to identify themes, automate project naming, and generate unbiased questions.

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Valuize Consulting

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Conduct quarterly business reviews (QBRs) to assess the customers success metrics, discuss upcoming needs, and align on future goals. Utilize AI-driven chatbots for 24/7 support, capable of handling routine inquiries and escalating complex issues to human agents.

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Valuize Consulting

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Conduct quarterly business reviews (QBRs) to assess the customer’s success metrics, discuss upcoming needs, and align on future goals. Utilize AI-driven chatbots for 24/7 support, capable of handling routine inquiries and escalating complex issues to human agents.

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