SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

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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Panintelligence

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

She points out the need for non-stop investment in cybersecurity: A lot of money goes into banks in protecting the customers, but fraudsters are also investing heavily in cybercrime. You must constantly be innovating, and companies will be spending more and more on this for an awful long time."

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 31, 2019

The wave of SaaS companies that built themselves on the likes of AWS and Azure have reinforced the pre-eminence of cloud computing. It has been an eventful, often fraught decade in tech, then, and that’s not even to mention artificial intelligence or machine learning, Alexa or Siri, Bitcoin or WeWork, Edward Snowden or GDPR.

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Running your own server to handle your customer's valuable data requires a huge investment to match the same level of security and reliability that comes baked into services like Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure cloud. This has always been a bad idea, but in the days of machine learning and massive data, it can kill a business.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Machine learning is only as keen as the data set it analyzes. The content that resonates best with buyers discusses issues and tells great stories, says Cameron Tanner at AWS. But investing time in building that expertise can slow reps down. Until that data set becomes a broader corpus, AI is still just hype.

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Just like machine learning before it disappeared in the background, AI will soon be so ubiquitous that it’s no longer a differentiator. Chatbots and virtual assistants using natural language processing and machine learning will become the norm for things like customer support. In a better way too.”

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 24, 2019

Machine learning can get the right message or recommendation out in a responsive way – not just from the customer’s next best action, but from the sales perspective, too. John: You guys have made a lot of investments or bets on early stage companies. Customer nurturing now starts from the first touch, and AI can help with that.

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