SaaStr

JANUARY 27, 2024

Dear SaaStr: What is The Average Ratio of Support Staff to Customer Count in SaaS? Typically support consumes about perhaps 5%-7% of your revenue at scale (excluding customer success) in most SaaS models. Another 5%-7% go to core infrastructure costs (AWS, Azure, Snowflake, etc).

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Clouded Judgement

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Hyperscalers Report Quarterly Earnings This week we saw AWS (Amazon), GCP (Google) and Azure (Microsoft) report earnings. Overall, it wasn’t pretty… AWS grew 28% when expectations were 30-31%. At the same time, Azure came in below expectations. Follow along to stay up to date!

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 13, 2022

ChurnZero is the Customer Success platform and partner for growing SaaS and subscription businesses. You need an efficient way to keep your customers successful, reduce churn, drive adoption, and increase net revenue retention.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

So, it’s more customer-friendly, but it also has its pros and cons. What’s evolved over the years and is driven by hyper-scalers like Google Azure, AWS, Twilio, and Stripe is the consumption-based model. It’s a very customer-oriented approach — you pay for what you use, and closing a deal is the start of a journey.

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Compensation Sales Azure AWS 157

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. Some folks might have feared that investors would hate usage-based pricing because customers aren’t locked into a subscription.

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Scale Pricing Scaling AWS 98

SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

This is one of the main reasons why many businesses opt for cloud hosting services from established providers like Microsoft Azure or Amazon AWS rather than managing their infrastructure—professionals manage their infrastructure. To see how SmartKarrot helps B2B companies streamline and scale customer success, Request a Demo.

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SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

333: Bridget Gleason is the Head of Sales and Customer Success @ Tidelift, the company providing managed open source, backed by maintainers. Finally, before YesWare, she was VP of Sales @ Engine Yard, where she tripled monthly recurring revenue, over the course of her 3+ year tenure, in 3 key leadership roles.

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