AWS Cloud Sales Recruiting Venture Capital 
SaaStr
NOVEMBER 13, 2020
394: Where is Venture Capital today? I wanted to have another fun, informal conversation with, one of, I think, the most insightful and smartest cloud investors, Sunil Dhaliwal. Interesting for a couple reasons, but Sunil’s been investing in cloud internet since before almost anybody. And how do you hack it?
Outseta
MAY 8, 2020
Perhaps best of all, the advent of cloud computing has made the barrier to entry in this field lower than ever before. There’s an awful lot of nuance here and the devil is in the details. I’d need to learn to raise capital and recruit developers. I needed a disruptive idea.
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SaaStr
AUGUST 20, 2019
I’m a vice president at Bessemer Venture Partners, which is a venture capital firm, which was very lucky to be a part of SendGrid’s journey. A fun story is that I met Sameer about five years ago at a cloud conference. We were signing up hundreds of new paying customers every month with five sales reps.
SaaStr
JULY 29, 2020
And so when you think back to what was happening, when we start back in 2010, when we were working on this idea in 2009, we just saw there’s this huge shift going on, where we were going from a world from hardware and software that you owned to services in the cloud that you rented. And I remember like AWS was growing really quickly.
Point Nine Land
JANUARY 30, 2019
If building the infrastructure of a SaaS product seems easy nowadays (with AWS and the myriad of developer APIs available), it was not the case fifteen years ago. Providing a “cloud based” service was really challenging in terms of infrastructure, and the first SaaS startups had to hire large engineering teams dedicated to this aspect only.
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