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5 Interesting Learnings from Digital Ocean at $700,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

If you haven’t heard of Digital Ocean, ask your developer. Many have used Digital Ocean at the cheaper, simpler version of AWS-Azure-Digital Ocean to get going fast and quickly. So is it possible to be too efficient in SaaS and Cloud? And if so, maybe that’s Digital Ocean. It’s gotten crazy good. Or at least.

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The Critical Question Facing Web3 Infrastructure Startups

Tom Tunguz

That’s much more work than the automatic credit card payment with AWS. Developers building sophisticated applications employ 10, 20, maybe 30 services. Developers pay for low-latency storage with the same protocol token as they would pay for compute. It’s too much complexity for a simple static blog.

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5 Interesting Learnings from DigitalOcean at $500,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

Focusing on smaller developers, in some ways it’s been a bit overshadowed by AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. DigitialOcean doesn’t want to take AWS, Azure and Google on in the enterprise and doesn’t really try. So DigitalOcean is the quiet Cloud platform that keeps on growing. Wow what a story!!

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Clouded Judgement 1.6.23

Clouded Judgement

Cloud Downgrades This week UBS came out with a couple research reports citing concerns in AWS / Azure growth. This brings me back to AWS / Azure downgrades. Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Follow along to stay up to date! It’s very tricky to predict.

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Investing in Tigris

Andreessen Horowitz

The traditional clouds (AWS, GCP, and Azure) are getting dated. Lately, we’ve seen the rise of a number of hosting platforms that are better aligned with modern development practices. These include Fly.io, Railway, and even front-end platforms such as Netlify and Vercel (which sometimes are built on traditional clouds).

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

Tom Tunguz

In the cloud, AWS, Azure, & GCP have created about as much market cap as all the top 100 B2B & B2C publics built on cloud (Netflix, ServiceNow, AirBnb, etc). Moats : how to develop competitive advantage? The PC increased GDP by 0.006%, according to NBER That alone should turn heads.

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