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Gas Gas Revolution

Tom Tunguz

This drop in prices has grown AWS into a $90b revenue business in 17 years. The same cost-reduction phenomenon is occurring with blockchains, though it’s not nearly as well publicized. The same cost-reduction phenomenon is occurring with blockchains, though it’s not nearly as well publicized. Optimism 0.15

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Blockchain-based storage service takes on Amazon AWS, unveils pricing

IT World

A cloud storage service first announced in 2015 that uses the decentralized, peer-to-peer architecture of blockchain to store encrypted data on the computers of users around the globe has unveiled its pricing model and production launch date. To read this article in full, please click here

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5 Predictions for 2020

Tom Tunguz

Blockchain technology finds its second killer application. Look no further than AWS Re:Invent where Amazon announced an entire suite of Machine Learning tools that compete with nearly every player in the ecosystem in every level of the stack. Data engineering is the new Customer Success. The IPO market was open.

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The Innovations Free Compute and Storage Unleash

Tom Tunguz

AWS has decreased prices for EC2, elastic compute cloud, and S3, simple storage service, 42 times in eight years. Without access to this computing power, the blockchain, which is the ledger of all Bitcoin accounts, could quickly be hacked and the currency destabilized. Cloud computing prices are hurtling to zero.

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A New AI Framework for GTM Teams

Sales Hacker

It happens with any new major breakthrough in technology like mobile, blockchain, and now AI. Map that new world out, use a framework like the one below to evaluate which AI option is right for your organization, conduct some smaller tests, iterate based on the data you get, and then roll it out across a single business unit.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Justin Bedecarre, Jen Nguyen, Jason Lemkin, and Aaron Levie

SaaStr

Justin Bedecarre: And another really important point that we really believe in is that you have to use data to drive decisions, right? You have to use data on how people are using the space. Justin, you actually made a really good point on data. Jen Nguyen: Yeah. Is it remote forever for the win, or is it flexibility?

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Top 30 SaaS Companies in the US

SmartKarrot

SaaS – Software-as-a-Service – is an umbrella term referring to a range of technologies and tools that facilitate the processing, storage, and management of big data using remote servers. Amazon Web Services (AWS). Amazon, the global marketplace, also offers several other services, one of which is Amazon Web Services (AWS).