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The decade software ate the world

Intercom, Inc.

The wave of SaaS companies that built themselves on the likes of AWS and Azure have reinforced the pre-eminence of cloud computing. What was perhaps less predictable was the ensuing prevalence of the subscription-based business model.

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How SaaS is Like Monty Python and 6 Other Things I Learned at SaaStock 2019

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British comedy has matured a lot in the last few decades, so people now don’t have to resort to a film that’s over 40 years old for entertainment. This is already at play — services like AWS, Stripe, and others have brought down the cost of starting and running a business to a fraction of what they used to be just a decade ago.

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How SaaS is Like Monty Python and 6 Other Things I Learned at SaaStock 2019

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British comedy has matured a lot in the last few decades, so people now don’t have to resort to a film that’s over 40 years old for entertainment. This is already at play — services like AWS, Stripe, and others have brought down the cost of starting and running a business to a fraction of what they used to be just a decade ago.

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11 Disruptive Innovation Examples (And Why Uber and Tesla Don’t Make the Cut)

OpenView Labs

Video streaming took the entertainment industry completely by surprise, quickly rising from the bottom of the market as a low-cost way for people to watch shows and movies to eventually disrupting the cable industry and driving video rental stores into the ground. They were cheap, small, and portable … but the sound quality was awful.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Domo and Gorgias — April 24, 2020

SaaStr

John Mellor: But then probably the biggest transition was watching Adobe transition into the subscription business model with its Creative Cloud product as it’s known today. ” Clearly, Wall Street and the Adobe team knew the benefit of a subscription business model and the transition into SaaS.

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