Clouded Judgement

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Amazon on AWS : “…customers are continuing to shift their focus towards driving innovation and bringing new workloads to the cloud. Azure (excluding Azure AI) continued to decelerate, and while AWS did come in ahead of expectations, it wasn’t a blow out.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Join us at the Moscone Center in San Francisco from March 18-22nd, for an extraordinary event dedicated to continually defining market innovations and providing insight into the future of games. Attendees include programmers, artists, producers, game designers, audio professionals, and business leaders.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 7, 2022

Then the infrastructure innovations disappear beneath the delightful application and we move onto the next wave with its own buzzwords. Some of them will employ the four fundamental innovations of web3 : permanent ownership, paying customers with “equity,” regulatory arbitrage, and new governance models (DAOs).

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 20, 2023

And hundreds of thousands of downmarket businesses that could get value out of ZoomInfo. We make sure that we can continue to maintain the new business sales motion while we’re doing that to see if we can get to a place where it’s additive. At the same time – there are only 1,000 Fortune1k companies, right?

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SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2024

We’re at the beginning of a platform shift, and for the first time, GenAI has become accessible to more than just the mega businesses of the world. The Pace of AI is Increasing Dramatically Something ground-shifting has been happening over the last five years — the pace of innovation. Last year, over $4B was raised in the first half.

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 25, 2023

DataBricks, whose business revolves around Spark operating in customer environments, has announced plans to acquire Mosaic, a vertically integrated model training & management system that functions on similar workloads. Five years ago, many startups defaulted to AWS for the generous credits, broad catalog, & rapid pace of innovation.

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FastSpring

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Looking to join SaaS founders and tech enthusiasts who are discussing the most innovative trends for SaaS companies? It is the largest in-person event in the country—2,000+ attendees, 800+ companies, and 100+ speakers—along with features such as Betakit Keynote Stage, AWS Pitchfest, Workspaces Tradeshow.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The Intercom team is looking forward to showcasing our latest features and improvements to the world’s leading Business Messenger and powerful customer support product. Our leading customer communication platform is used by the most innovative companies worldwide, such as Unity, Spendesk, (add approved customer logos in here).

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Executive teams and boards are demanding innovation with LLMs and data. The Pendulum Swings to Small Data : Modern Mac laptops have the same computational power as the AWS servers Snowflake used to launch the company. The Decade of Data Continues : The pace of innovation within the data world continues to accelerate due to data.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 30, 2022

As a founder, you may know exactly what tech stack you need to build your product – but what about when it comes to the tools you need to run your business? But these days, there are so many innovative and impactful tools that can massively streamline your workflows and help to set you up for success as you scale. Questions to ask.

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SaaStr

MARCH 22, 2023

Ed Lenta, the SVP and GM of Databricks, had the rare opportunity of scaling three hypergrowth companies — VMware, AWS, and Databricks. Instead of selling products, they were selling aspirational concepts and business value. Segment your business only if you have to. Of course, we all know how that turned out.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Open Source is one of the most successful enablers of global innovation in history, and Linux has grown into the most important software platform in the world, dominating every market it enters. Community is vital to the success of Open Source businesses. Innovation happens more easily on Open Source in a SaaS model.

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Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

AWS has decreased prices for EC2, elastic compute cloud, and S3, simple storage service, 42 times in eight years. The benefits of these databases have already cascaded to business intelligence and will undoubtedly benefit other fields. Cloud computing prices are hurtling to zero. Storage is following a similar path.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

ABOUT IN THE VAULT “In the Vault” is a new audio podcast series by the a16z Fintech team, where we sit down with the most influential figures in financial services to explore key trends impacting the industry and the pressing innovations that will shape our future. Follow this show on our podcast feed so you don't miss an episode.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Kazuki Ohta, CEO & Founder at Treasure Data, shares his company’s story of how pivoting at the right time saved their business and accelerated their growth to $100 million ARR. Commoditization From AWS & Google Cloud. The platform innovations slowed temporarily, which drove churn higher. How can you get back on track?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 2, 2021

Partnerships drive business and thriving ecosystems for SaaS companies unlike anything else. Aneesa Sayall (VP of Strategic Operations Customer & Partner Org at ServiceNow) interviews Lara Caimi, the ServiceNow Chief Customer & Partner Officer, about the journey to $15 billion and how building partnerships help propel the business.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Innovative startups. The first army are innovative startups. In simple terms, in order for a company to succeed they must have a good business idea and be able to consistently execute and evolve that idea better than anyone else. How can your business win market dominance and survive? Best in class public companies (e.g.

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CloudGeometry

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

2020 left no doubt: the growth of cloud computing is firmly grounded in the SaaS business model. Optimize cloud economics and drive Business Goals. The AWS Well-Architected Framework is one such approach that helps adopt architectural best practices (whether or not you run on AWS) and adapt continuously.

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User Pilot

APRIL 29, 2024

Your tech stack not only defines the backbone of your business operations but also influences your ability to innovate, scale, and deliver exceptional value to your customers. Service providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure offer server hosting and load-balancing services.

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Valerian Tech

JULY 18, 2023

Introduction Cloud computing has revolutionized the way businesses operate by increasing agility, scalability, and cost-efficiency. We will also discuss how different companies can integrate cloud computing into their business operations, along with the challenges they might encounter along the way.

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Frontegg

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Tel Aviv, October 14, 2020 – Frontegg , creators of the first platform for fast-tracking SaaS development and innovation, today announced a $5M Seed round led by Pitango , with backing from i3 Equity and Global Founders Capital. Before AWS, engineering teams had to scale their own infrastructure.

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OpenView Labs

JUNE 4, 2019

If you spend much time in the startup and tech ecosystem, you’ve probably heard the term “disruptive innovation” more times than you can count. But not all companies that are commonly known as disrupters actually fit the traditional definition of disruptive innovation. Innovations are mischaracterized as disruptive. 3D Printing.

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Chart Mogul

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The company’s sole analyst at that time used AWS Athena to query them from the S3 bucket, created additional materialized views to combine and aggregate them, and visualized them into dashboards with Superset using its AWS Athena connector. We used our daily AWS RDS snapshots and loaded them daily to Snowflake tables.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 10, 2023

He’ll walk you through the three stages of growth: 0-$1M — From nothing to something $1M-$10M — Building, innovation, and customers $10M-$100M+ — Scaling and thriving And what sustainable growth strategies you can implement (and pitfalls to avoid) wherever you’re at in your SaaS journey. The health of your business long-term.

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Casey Accidental

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In a previous post , I talked about how product work post-product/market fit shifts from zero to one innovation to features, growth, and scaling work. But a question founders and teams often ask is when do we start layering in innovation work again that creates new value props. You can read parts 1 and 2 here and here.

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How To Buy Saas

APRIL 25, 2024

Most notably, it’s started to help businesses who use cloud-based services operate and deliver their services to their customers more efficiently. How has AI changed SaaS businesses? Most interestingly, we’ll discuss how artificial intelligence has improved the operation of SaaS businesses over the years and what to expect next.

Artificial Intelligence 52

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 28, 2020

If you’ve used the AWS IAM (identity access management) console, you realize how complex access control has become. Enterprises will move pieces of their business over. Cloud is more expensive for larger enterprises. Many are considering moving back to their own infrastructure and using the cloud to manage bursts.

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Clouded Judgement

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Typical data lake storage solutions include AWS S3, Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS), Google Cloud Storage (GCS) or Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). In truth, innovations in the past few years are helping evolve the data lake (swamp) into a data lakehouse! A natural question is “why do we have two tiers?

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Blulogix

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Take your business further with BluIQ’s flexible, scalable, enterprise-grade intelligent billing solutions. With the shift from one-time software licenses to subscription-based models, businesses and consumers have become accustomed to the idea of paying for technology services on a recurring basis.

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SaaStr

MAY 14, 2019

You could not build a business in Europe. That’s what you put your business on. And that is also changing our expectations to business software. Business software used to be terrible. Businesses have a very different expectation to the kind of software that they put in their business. Forget about it.

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Panintelligence

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

As innovation in Fintech SaaS increases, so does the pressure to safeguard sensitive data. But Andy says Fintech SaaS is hitting a big challenge: mixing innovation with tight security. Fintech companies are all about pushing tech boundaries, but the more they innovate, the bigger the risk of sophisticated cyber threats.

Payments 52

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CloudGeometry

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

It’s increasingly impossible to imagine a SaaS business without a firm commitment to DevOps thinking. Those awesome new tricks that seem to show up out of nowhere within cloud-first applications like Google Workplace, Slack, Facebook, Twitter, Stripe, the iPhone, and Amazon (both eCommerce and AWS)? That’s a mistake.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 19, 2018

Our team’s mission is to help Intercom evolve, scale and be trusted by every internet business in the world. I started at Amazon before they had Amazon Web Services (AWS) so I was lucky enough to see AWS born out of the guts of all of the great operations work done for the amazon.com retail website. Who do we outsource to?

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

One thing we’ve learned in helping our founders and operators scale their businesses is that cash is one of their most precious resources. Cashflow is the lifeblood of a business. Fora is an innovative executive relationship management (ERM) platform poised to transform C-suite decision-making through cutting-edge AI technology.

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Stax

APRIL 18, 2024

While they operate under different business models, ISVs and SaaS share similarities in software development, cross-platform accessibility, and industry reach. ISVs, or Independent Software Vendors, are businesses that develop and distribute software products to end-users. Learn More What are ISVs?

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 16, 2022

Intercom is a product-led company, focused on maximizing product innovation and development velocity. That also means we hold ourselves to high operational standards: minimizing costs, speedily addressing quality issues that arise within existing products, and mitigating security risks. Without rock solid availability, nothing else matters.

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Scytale

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

As the demand for efficient compliance management grows, companies such as Drata and Vanta have emerged as leaders in the field, offering innovative platforms designed to simplify and enhance the compliance journey. This innovative practice harnesses cutting-edge technology to revolutionize traditional compliance processes.

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