IT World

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Microsoft has gone all in on artificial intelligence (AI), pouring $10 billion in the OpenAI startup — and that’s just the opening gambit. AI will reap many billions in revenue for the company, particularly its cloud business. Yesterday it unveiled plans to add AI to Bing in a bid to take market share from Google.

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

I’m watching public company earnings to identify early trends in the software market to inform startups’ plans for 2023. The surge in pipeline is notable given the uncertainty in the market but the close rates are low & sales cycles slow : another confirmatory data point for startups to plan cautiously in 2023.

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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

APRIL 11, 2024

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. 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.

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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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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. Here, we trace some of the biggest trends and stories in technology over the past decade, and try to find a narrative to make sense of it all. .

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 9, 2021

Orca Security provides security and compliance for Amazon Web Services , Azure , and Google Cloud Platform. Microsoft recently included Alkira in its Microsoft for Startups program , which will provide the company with access to technical, sales, and marketing resources. Funding Round: $216 million Series B raised in March 2020.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Keep these things in mind: Similar clients – If an agency mostly works with Fortune 100 clients and you’re a small startup, they probably won’t be a good fit. Known as their “AI Factory”, Artefact also works with cloud service providers like Azure to ensure they have a robust infrastructure.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2022

Found by Prabhu Ramachandran, Yogendra Babu, Rajavel Subramanian, and Krishnamoorthi Rangasamy in 2017, Facilio Inc is another popular SaaS startup. Found in 2011 by Ashish Thusoo and Joydeep Sen Sarma, Qubole works on developing a “cloud-based data lake platform for self-service AI.” Facilio Inc.

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