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How Amazon Web Services (AWS) Achieved an $11.5B Run Rate by Working Backwards

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In 2006, after Amazon Web Services (AWS) helped pioneer what we now call the cloud, product development changed forever. Today, one-third of daily internet users visit websites built on top of AWS. AWS is now an $11.5B run rate business and has made up for an incredible 67% of Amazon’s operating revenue last quarter.

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Scaling to $5B with Cockroach Labs’ CEO Spencer Kimball’s Formula for Sustained Growth and Resilience

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Whether you’re going from nothing to something or already scaling and thriving beyond $10-100M, healthy, sustainable growth in SaaS is on every founder’s mind. Cockroach Labs’ CEO Spencer Kimball shares hard-won lessons from scaling from $0 to $5B and his time as an angel investor for more than 80 different startups. Ideas Are Cheap.

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Q&A with Maria Pergolino, Anthony Kennada, Aaron Ross and Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

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Aaron Ross | CEO @ Predictable Revenue. And so, she can, and Anthony just finished up basically going from the first sales hire at Gainsight at almost 100 million in revenue and has just retired. And I remember being at that Dreamforce in 2009, which was awful. So on a scale of one to 10, what type of feedback do you want?

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Tidelift and Cloudflare

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Finally, before YesWare, she was VP of Sales @ Engine Yard, where she tripled monthly recurring revenue, over the course of her 3+ year tenure, in 3 key leadership roles. Why does Bridget believe the best starting point for customer success is “company culture and value”? Loving our podcast content? Who has done this well?

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The Top 5 Questions Every CEO Wrestles With – Lessons From Host Analytics (Video + Transcript)

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I’ve also had more than 10 years of CMO experience, including a good run at Business Objects where I ran marketing as we grew from 30 million to over a billion in revenue during a nine-year period. So I am or have been an independent board member on four companies. When you’re building your company culture, in my opinion?

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David Barrett, CEO of Expensify: Good Intentions, Bad Advice: How to Keep Your Board Aligned with Your Vision (Video + Transcript)

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It’s probably that you’re small, you have very little revenue, you have a couple of employees maybe, you’re probably struggling, maybe your bank accounts are stretched, you’re probably incredibly stressed. It’s a brutal, awful slog in the start. ” “The cameras are awful.”

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Justin Bedecarre, Jen Nguyen, Jason Lemkin, and Aaron Levie

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Justin Bedecarre: And then another client of ours is an international company that has decided that they truly want to scale up in San Francisco. We’re going to learn so much about ourselves, about how we should and can run our companies, how we run our day-to-day lives. Is AWS in the lead?