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From $1M to $3B ARR: Databricks CRO Ron Gabrisko on Scaling a Revenue Rocket Ship

SaaStr

Because thats how their customerswho were used to AWS, Azure, and GCP pricingexpected to buy. Enterprise sales require a field presence, strategic account management, and a drive to go where your customers are. Pricing: Keep It Simple (At First) Databricks started with a simple, consumption-based pricing model.

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Top Tools for Monitoring API Performance

Teamgate

is a powerful cloud observability platform that helps us monitor our infrastructure and applications in real time. The AI-powered insights have helped us identify and resolve issues faster, resulting in stellar uptime and increased customer satisfaction for Fortune 500 customers.” “Middleware.io ” – Tatevik H.,

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Profit Dollars per GPU Dollar

Tom Tunguz

“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.” GCP 23 35 52.2% Azure 26 33 26.9%

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Microsoft's Billion Dollar AI Business

Tom Tunguz

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) & Microsoft Azure had strong quarters with about 28% annual revenue growth each. But the story in this quarter’s reports is AI. Just last week, Epic Systems shared that it was using Azure OpenAI Service to integrate this next generation of AI with its industry-leading EHR software.

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The 4 Questions Startups Should Ask Themselves about Building with Generative AI

Tom Tunguz

There are 4 questions a startup should ask themselves about building a startup that uses generative AI. The narrative is : AI is a massive platform change that Goldman Sachs projects will increase GDP 300x more than the PC. There are 4 questions startups should ask themselves about building with generative AI.

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A Look Back at Q1 '24 Public Cloud Software Earnings

Clouded Judgement

GCP data is a bit more noisy as they don’t disclose GCP itself, but rather Google Cloud which includes GSuite. The charts below show the change in quarterly revenue YoY (so Q1 ‘24 rev - Q1 ‘23 rev) going back to 2017.

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Signs We've Touched the Bottom

Tom Tunguz

Both Google & Microsoft announced growth rates in GCP & Azure that held steady from one quarter to the next. There are two forces in tension : overall cost reduction efforts by companies & the desire to invest in AI. The desire for AI is broad.

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