Clouded Judgement

MARCH 28, 2025

Fast forward to the launch of AWS and the public cloud. Now, you still had to go out and hire engineers to build the product, build out the GTM team to build brand and distribution, etc. And now, engineering and distribution (go-to-market) constraints are greatly reduced with AI. So why try and compete now?

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SaaStr

MARCH 24, 2025

We are all becoming prompt engineers now. If your product doesnt leverage AI to improve efficiency or reduce costs, you might find yourself underpricing pressure. One Thing is Clear: AI Makes a Lot of Business Software Look Awfully Expensive Today. Is Deflation Coming? #5. Gross Margins Will Improve for AI-Driven SaaS. And front and center.

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FastSpring

APRIL 29, 2025

With AWS elasticity and real-time observability, FastSpring can make adjustments and scale instantly, ensuring uninterrupted transactions no matter how many players are buying. Moreover, we have an enterprise-grade engineering team that has built and maintains a scalable and resilient cloud-native stack using AWS.

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How To Buy Saas

MAY 29, 2025

For instance, companies like Sephora and Amazon have deployed AI-driven recommendation engines. AWS explains that intelligent automation (IA) is the process of using artificial intelligence (AI) to make self-improving software automation. Executives also leverage generative AI for idea generation and reporting.

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How To Buy Saas

JUNE 18, 2025

This fuels a robust ecosystem of AI chips (Nvidia, AMD), cloud AI services (AWS Sagemaker, Azure AI, Google Cloud AI), and SaaS integration (Salesforce Einstein, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Adobe Firefly). AWS Trainium2 & Ultracluster supercomputer details unveiled; embeds 64 Trainium chips, used by Anthropic + Apple trials.

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Frontegg

JUNE 23, 2025

Multi-cloud integration CSPM solutions operate across multiple cloud platforms, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and others. This simplifies operations, as development and security teams collaborate more easily, reducing deployment delays caused by security issues. Key capabilities of CSPM solutions 1.

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Blulogix

MAY 20, 2025

From statewide digital transformation initiatives to university research platforms running on AWS and Azure, cloud services have become essential infrastructure. Cloud providers like AWS and Microsoft Azure dont operate on fixed fees. Schedule a Demo Today Cloud Is Usage-Based. Your Billing Needs to Be Too.

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SaaStr

JUNE 19, 2025

AI Will Reshape Technical Roles in 18 Months (or Less) : Data engineers will become orchestrators rather than code writers. I want to build a better churn detection engine. Business Users Drive More Consumption Growth : The biggest unlock isn’t more data engineers—it’s enabling any business user to query data like ChatGPT.

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Full Session

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Integrations PostHog works well with Kafka, Slack, AWS, Google Cloud, GitHub, Tableau, and Looker. Recommendation engine: Suggest tailored products or content to users. PostHogs ability to host data on your servers offers greater privacy control than VWOs cloud-based model.

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Teamgate

JUNE 11, 2025

As Cory Watson, Principal Infrastructure Engineer at Keen , explains: “The ability to integrate API Monitoring into the communications channels our engineers use most often adds tremendous value, and allows us to respond to API failures much more quickly” Runscope also simplifies complex authentication scenarios.

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How To Buy Saas

MAY 21, 2025

Pros AI Recommendations Engine: Manatals AI helps surface the best candidates for a role by analyzing data patterns, which is incredibly useful for HR teams overwhelmed by large applicant volumes. Once set up, Manatal provides a powerful yet affordable engine to power your hiring in 2025.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 7, 2025

With a background that includes leadership roles at AWS, Microsoft, and Lenovo, Fred brings a wealth of experience in building high-performing teams and driving revenue growth. And I know you’ve had some great experience, particularly while you were at AWS, running different partner sales, channel sales. They cannot resell.

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FastSpring

JUNE 13, 2025

As a 25+ year digital veteran, David’s accolades include acquiring and operating many design plugin and theme businesses including WordPress’ #1 theme framework Genesis, and his teams have built plugins monetizing with marketplaces, direct purchase, and in support of SaaS products for top brands like Cloudflare, AWS, WP Engine, and more.

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Crafty CTO

JUNE 18, 2025

My live experience at the AI Engineer World’s Fair 2025 in San Francisco could be summarized as “extremely intense.” I hope these notes help you get a sense of the energy, trends, and ideas shaping the future of AI and AI Engineering.

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Blulogix

MAY 19, 2025

Chargeback as a Compliance Engine A true Chargeback platform doesnt just show what departments are usingit bills them based on real, metered consumption, using defendable pricing and allocation rules. That opens your organization up to audit risk, compliance issues, and potential funding challenges.

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User Pilot

APRIL 2, 2025

Userpilots data is fully encrypted and stored with SOC-compliant vendors like Amazon AWS and Google Cloud. Benefit from Userpilots ease of use Not every company has a dedicated engineering team ready to manage analytics and engagement tools. Keeping data protection front and center prevents data breaches, identity theft, phishing, etc.,

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Sales Hacker

MAY 13, 2025

14:30 The new battleground: how AI engines like ChatGPT shape discoverability. They work with startups and scaling businesses to help take HR off your plate, so you can stay focused on building product, growing revenue, and hiring great people – the go-to-market engine. Quick bio for the listeners. [00:02:00]

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 13, 2025

In those scrappy early days, the first sales hire sets the tone for your entire go-to-market engine. Culture becomes the engine. With a background that includes leadership roles at AWS, Microsoft, and Lenovo, Fred brings a wealth of experience in building high-performing teams and driving revenue growth.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 13, 2021

Our product engineers are empowered to build great features, fast. For this reason, we chose to run exclusively on AWS and wherever possible, we make use of battle-tested AWS services, be it RDS Aurora for our relational databases, the Simple Queue Service (SQS) for our async workers or ElastiCache for our caching layer.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Within the next 12 months, Adam Seligman, VP of Generative Builders at AWS, believes there will be an inversion of SaaS. There are a whole crop of coding assistants popping up that can write code and configure infrastructure like Github Copilot and AWS’ Code Whisperer. What does that mean? Your SDRs, what do they do?

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Hitenism

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

In 2006, after Amazon Web Services (AWS) helped pioneer what we now call the cloud, product development changed forever. What once took millions of dollars and a team of engineers to create, a lone developer could suddenly hack together in half an hour. Today, one-third of daily internet users visit websites built on top of AWS.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

Why Customer Success and Product Should be Best Friends: Lessons Learned with AWS’ Head of Customer Success Harini Gokul. The post Session Registration Open for SaaStr Build 2022: Sign Up to Hear HubSpot’s GM, Amplitude’s CEO, AWS’ Head of Customer Success and CircleCI’s CEO appeared first on SaaStr.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 2, 2021

For the very first time, we’re releasing Engineer Chats , an internal podcast here at Intercom about all things engineering. Previously hosted by Jamie Osler , a Senior Product Engineer at Intercom for over seven years, it’s now up to Principal Systems Engineer Brian Scanlan to pick up the baton and keep the chats going.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Alert fatigue is a common problem among engineering teams that handle operations and maintain infrastructure. The result is lots of semi-meaningful alerts, noise, context-switching, and multitasking for the on-call engineer. Are the steps clear enough to be followed by any engineer on the team? Is the alert still relevant?

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2021

From premature optimization to over-engineering solutions for your product, it’s easy to get caught up in making technology decisions that slow you down instead of speeding you up. At Intercom, we’ve found success running Lambda as glue code between AWS services. The top ten technical strategies to avoid. Multi-cloud architectures.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 24, 2024

So AI products aren’t electric motors with one or two moving pieces, but more like the gas powered engines with many moving parts. AWS & others have stopped charging to move data. AWS cut prices more than 100 times in its first five years. Plus, data movement is less expensive than in the previous era.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Some of the brightest minds in data founded MotherDuck including BigQuery founding engineer Jordan Tigani & a broader team from Snowflake, Databricks, AWS, Meta, Elastic & Firebolt, among others. Motherduck raised a $12.5M Seed led by Redpoint and a $35M Series A led by a16z.

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SaaStr

MAY 16, 2022

So follow AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. Let’s look a whole level up to the real canaries-in-the-coalmine: AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. And AWS grew 37% at a $74B run-rate , down a bit from 39% the prior quarter but still adding an insane amount of new revenue. That’s the engine we’re all building on.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 25, 2022

This allows us to develop teams of deep domain experts to support and enable product engineers as they build the next generation of Intercom, and provide world class observability tooling, scaling, reliability, and secure-by-default build patterns. . Our tooling allows for high availability.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 19, 2022

We swapped the transaction database from PostGres to a blockchain like Ethereum or Sui , and the file storage from AWS S3 to a decentralized storage provider, perhaps Filecoin or ArWeave. That’s enough to confer the benefits of decentralization to users, while giving engineers the tools to build a functional app.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 28, 2022

That’s much more work than the automatic credit card payment with AWS. Can you imagine a site reliability engineer managing 15 to 20 tokens, coordinating with finance teams to ensure proper treasury management, while ensuring high uptime? Third, software engineers decentralize only a subset of the app.

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SaaStr

JUNE 4, 2022

Enough to pay some salaries and AWS bills, but it’s not that much. And each month, you barely add enough new revenue to hire just one of those great engineers you need. But it is so slow. You have 2,000 customers now. But at $10/mo, that’s still just $20,000 a month.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

AWS can’t support 20 partners equally. When partnering with big folks like Drata does with AWS, you have to bring business to them. Drata was one of three companies mentioned on stage by AWS’ Head of Partnerships because they did the most transactions on the marketplace than any other company. That’s a high value for AWS.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 9, 2020

But VPs are still sitting on their computers, struggling to hit their plans, manage their teams, hire the next great engineer, deploy their software releases, and hit their number. Emails get blocked, spam filtered. No one even has voice mail anymore. 50 calls a day feels awfully dated. Everyone gets 10,000 drip email campaigns sent to them.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

by Rich Archbold, Senior Director of Engineering at Intercom. In this battle, I’ve found a secret weapon hidden within one of our core engineering strategies, an idea called Run Less Software. When I say “execute”, I don’t simply mean the engineering challenges of building something. The same is true in software.

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SaaStr

JULY 26, 2021

The “best” sequence for building a repeatable sales engine is roughly: The CEO/founder should close at least the first 10 (or 20 or whatever) customers. It’s to scale a tiny engine into something bigger. But, sometimes a founder is >so< terrible at sales, so awful at it, that literally, it’s hopeless.

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SaaStr

MARCH 9, 2022

Focusing on smaller developers, in some ways it’s been a bit overshadowed by AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. DigitialOcean doesn’t want to take AWS, Azure and Google on in the enterprise and doesn’t really try. So DigitalOcean is the quiet Cloud platform that keeps on growing. Wow what a story!!

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