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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. for Arbitrum.

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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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5 Predictions for 2020

Tom Tunguz

Blockchain technology finds its second killer application. The ecosystem continues to innovate but the second killer app (currency being the first), hasn't yet been found. It rewarded companies with better gross margins (typically above 50%). Uber, Zoom, Pinterest, PagerDuty, Crowdstrike, Slack, and many others made a great list.

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Top 30 SaaS Companies in the US

SmartKarrot

Amazon Web Services (AWS). Amazon, the global marketplace, also offers several other services, one of which is Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS offers cloud services to businesses. The services include customer engagement , immersive virtualization technologies, analytics, and blockchain. Founded in: 2006. Founded in: 1999.

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

SaaStr

And the purpose, obviously, was to enhance face-to-face collaboration, innovation, and productivity. Justin Bedecarre: And it’s a really inspirational thing to add technology and innovation to the workplace, how you find space, how you manage space, and build the office of the future. Is AWS in the lead?