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Gas Gas Revolution

Tom Tunguz

This drop in prices has grown AWS into a $90b revenue business in 17 years. As storage & compute became less expensive, the economic viability of new use cases became increasingly apparent & developers built software on the cloud. The cost to save data to a blockchain is called gas. for Optimism & $0.08 for Arbitrum.

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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. Perhaps this dynamic drives consolidation in the market, paralleling the web2 infrastructure hypermarts of AWS, GCP, and Azure. Third, software engineers decentralize only a subset of the app. It’s too much complexity for a simple static blog.

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5 Predictions for 2020

Tom Tunguz

Software M&A in 2019 reached about $170B up from $136B in 2018, up 25%. Public software multiples remain at elevated levels. I think the median software multiple remains around 9x, and the bull market continues. Blockchain technology finds its second killer application. The M&A market continues to surge.

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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. Despite the bells and whistles of newfangled technology, the needle has hardly moved when it comes to how well the software fulfills the requirements of software users. You’ll likely just go faster in the wrong direction.

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

SaaStr

Justin Bedecarre: Whereas if you’re a software company, you can wait until, you don’t have to compel people to come in sooner than they feel safe. Five people in the digital team were looking at blockchain projects and three people on that digital team were looking for long term AI transformation. Is AWS in the lead?

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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).

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Simple Frameworks For Success (Full Video + Success)

OnStartups

What you should do, since now you're out of Twitch, you should do a professional network that's powered by the blockchain that, and I'm going to say this as kindly. A lot of people say LinkedIn sucks, and you're suggesting building a different one on the blockchain. So Bitcloud ended up doing Twitter with the blockchain.