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

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It was around that time about 12 years ago that Jeff Bezos launched AWS, and some of you may remember that, when he did this, Wall Street analysts were looking at him and saying, “Why would you take what’s already a very unprofitable business and drive it further into the red by investing in this AWS initiative?”

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When Does Open Source Make Sense for a Business?

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The answer likely depends on your market segmentation, as freemium may ease adoption friction for SMB/mid-market companies. Are you targeting enterprise or mid-market/SMB? This is often where licensing questions start to come up as well. Enterprise sales are quirky beasts.