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ISVs vs SaaS: What’s the Difference?

Stax

Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and Software-as-a-Service Providers (SaaS) operate within the same market, thus creating a push-and-pull revenue dynamic. TL;DR ISVs develop and distribute software products independently and often collaborate with hardware manufacturers and platform providers. Learn More What are ISVs?

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In the Vault: Placing Multiple Bets on a ‘Mosaic of Solutions’ With Former Global Payments CEO Jeff Sloan

Andreessen Horowitz

In this conversation, a16z General Partner Angela Strange talks with J eff Sloan, former CEO of Global Payments, about how he was early to spot significant industry trends, how to make bets that move an organization, and the sea change that AI represents for the financial services industry. Angela: Why Global Payments?

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Thanks to Unit, Everstage, Aiven, Zip, and Mission Cloud for Sponsoring SaaStr Annual 2022!

SaaStr

Unit helps tech companies build financial features into their products: accounts, cards, payments, lending & more. Aiven provides managed open source data technologies on all major clouds. Meanwhile, we do what we do best; manage cloud data infrastructure. With Aiven, developers can do what they do best: create applications.

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Thanks to Bee, ChartMogul, Maast, SecureFrame, and StratusGreen for Sponsoring SaaStr Annual 2023!

SaaStr

Our mission is to build powerful and secure cloud software for subscription businesses of all sizes, with a strong emphasis on good design and ease of use. Maast offers payments, banking, lending and more as features in software provider’s platforms – with one relationship, contract and integration.

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Snowflake, CrowdStike and SumoLogic: “How to Leverage the Cloud Giants to Scale to 100 Million ARR and Beyond”

SaaStr

Jessica Alexander, Senior Director Cloud Technology & OEM Partnerships, Crowdstrike. So for the audience, cloud giants are turbocharging startup sales, and the predominant reason for this is because they’re fundamentally changing IT budgets at the customers that we’re all selling to. Rico Mallozzi, Sr.

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Is it Really ARR? In 2021+, Yes. As Long As NRR is > 100%

SaaStr

But like “Cloud” and “SaaS”, its definitely has evolved. 50% revenue from software (recurring), 50% from payments (not-recurring). . Half of its revenues comes from its software. And yes, it’s a software company. Well of course it does. 220m in ARR, $13B market cap.

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The decade software ate the world

Intercom, Inc.

Putting narrative order on the past decade, a 10-year-period that has somehow remained stubbornly nameless, is quite the challenge, but it’s impossible to make sense of the 2010s without understanding the role of software. Big tech takes over. To give some perspective, there were about 300 million smartphones sold in 2010.