Clouded Judgement

APRIL 21, 2023

Next week we get all 3 hyperscalers reporting (AWS from Amazon, Azure from Microsoft, and GCP from Google). On AWS, in their Q4 earnings call they said AWS was growing “mid teens” in January (down from 20% in Q4). The big question I have - everyone knows the market is tough right now.

Cloud 130

Cloud Azure AWS GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 130

Clouded Judgement

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Hyperscalers Report Quarterly Earnings This week we saw AWS (Amazon), GCP (Google) and Azure (Microsoft) report earnings. Overall, it wasn’t pretty… AWS grew 28% when expectations were 30-31%. Multiples shown below are calculated by taking the Enterprise Value (market cap + debt - cash) / NTM revenue.

Cloud 130

Cloud Azure AWS Cost optimization & reporting 130

SaaStr

APRIL 27, 2021

After polling CIOs, Gartner found that total SaaS spend will grow from $100B in 2020 to $140B in 2022: A few interesting implications and learnings: The growth in SaaS buying should give you a +20% a year boost on top of your other sales and marketing efforts. That’s a huge tailwind. This is your time, folks. Go make it happen.

GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 167

GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Azure AWS SaaS 167

Clouded Judgement

JULY 28, 2023

AI = Data + Compute I’ll continue beating this drum, but we got two great quotes from Azure and AWS this week. Satya at Microsoft said “Every AI app starts with data and having a comprehensive data and analytics platform is more important than ever.” Meaning labor markets continue to be strong!

Cloud 130

Cloud Azure AWS GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 130

Clouded Judgement

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Hyperscalers (AWS, Azure, GCP as companies look for cloud GPUs who aren’t building out their own data centers) Infra (Data layer, orchestration, monitoring, ops, etc) Durable Applications We’ve clearly well underway of the first 3 layers monetizing. Revenue multiples are a shorthand valuation framework.

Cloud 183

Cloud Artificial Intelligence AI GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 183

Clouded Judgement

AUGUST 11, 2023

” It’s really important that new business is still healthy, and a sign of overall market health. While the overall median revenue multiple of the software universe is ~6x (which is ~25% below the long term average of ~8x), high growth software is currently trading at a premium to it’s long term average (9.4x

Cloud 130

Cloud Trends Azure GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 130

OPEXEngine

JANUARY 11, 2022

There are many vendor benefits, too — it is easier to sell and it embodies a customer success solution orientation that drives high customer lifetime value and revenue. These contracts are very common in ‘revenue share’ models (i.e., Less predictable revenue. they do not have to overprovision for “just in case” scenarios).

Pricing 52

Pricing Payment Solutions Outsourced Development Compensation 52

SaaStr

JULY 19, 2022

Using the Drift Conversation Cloud, businesses can personalize experiences that lead to more quality pipeline, revenue and lifelong customers. More than 5,000 customers use Drift to deliver a more enjoyable and more human buying experience that builds trust and accelerates revenue. Usually, it takes a paradigm shift to grow.

GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 224

GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Artificial Intelligence Enterprise readiness Azure 224

SaaStr

OCTOBER 6, 2022

We help B2B SaaS marketers turn organic search into a source of repeatable revenue through software and coaching. DuploCloud offers an end-to-end DevOps software platform for dev teams that don’t have dedicated DevOps engineers and augments those that do.

GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 201

GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Azure AWS compliance 201

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 24, 2019

It’s now so inexpensive to go to market that having a great tech vision and product isn’t enough. It’s less expensive than it’s ever been in terms of actually getting a product to market, whether it’s leveraging platforms like Salesforce or GCP or AWS or Heroku. You got 37 the first go-round.

Scale 151

Scale Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence AI 151

OpenView Labs

JANUARY 24, 2022

At Tackle, we have seen our sellers experience huge revenue growth, the product catalog is expanding rapidly for buyers, and budgets are growing at unprecedented rates. One of the trends we saw over the last year is how Cloud Marketplaces are leveraged across the spectrum of go-to-market. .

Marketplace as a Service 77

Marketplace as a Service Cloud Trends Software 77