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State of the Cloud 2019: Europa Edition with Alex Ferrara, Bessemer Venture Partners (Video + Transcript)

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Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. Retail was mentioned twice, that’s it, and AWS was mentioned 78 times, so it’s probably not surprising that they’re doing this. I think it’s a really staggering stat.

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The Sendgrid Journey: Scaling From Growth Stage to $2B Acquisition in 4 Years (Video + Transcript)

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We collectively as a company were fortunate in doing all those things and, boy, was it a heck of a team effort, and it was a lot of fun. The business, while it had decelerated, it was still an extraordinary service. We had a great easy-to-use pricing model. Sameer Dhokalia: The go-to-market model was magical.

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