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In the Vault: Placing Multiple Bets on a ‘Mosaic of Solutions’ With Former Global Payments CEO Jeff Sloan

Andreessen Horowitz

In this conversation, a16z General Partner Angela Strange talks with J eff Sloan, former CEO of Global Payments, about how he was early to spot significant industry trends, how to make bets that move an organization, and the sea change that AI represents for the financial services industry. Angela: Why Global Payments?

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ISVs vs SaaS: What’s the Difference?

Stax

Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and Software-as-a-Service Providers (SaaS) operate within the same market, thus creating a push-and-pull revenue dynamic. TL;DR ISVs develop and distribute software products independently and often collaborate with hardware manufacturers and platform providers.

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Building a Multi-tenant Enterprise SaaS Application on AWS (Step-by-Step Guide)

Frontegg

One of the most significant benefits of using a multi-tenant application architecture is updating the application platform for all the clients at once. Customers also prefer softwares that provides frequent and streamlined updates because it makes the process less cumbersome while ensuring the service is updated.

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When and How to Build Second Products

Casey Accidental

Format changes are usually only required around platform shifts already occurring or platform shifts a larger company is trying to drive. This is creating a new value proposition for your existing audience so that you can acquire, retain, and/or monetize them better. I have written more about platforms here.

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Keeping data secure in Fintech

Panintelligence

This figure, having risen by 15% over three years, shows how cybercrime is really putting the squeeze on businesses financially. And losses from Authorized Push Payment (APP) fraud totalled nearly £500 million in 2022. You must constantly be innovating, and companies will be spending more and more on this for an awful long time."

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Snowflake, CrowdStike and SumoLogic: “How to Leverage the Cloud Giants to Scale to 100 Million ARR and Beyond”

SaaStr

And if you also look at the platform as a service category, that’s also an additional $50 billion of spend, and that’s typically with those same vendors. And it’s one of the three large cloud vendors that we all know: Microsoft, AWS, and Google. AWS’s marketplace has seen 1.5

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Our New Transparent Pricing Dashboard: Where Your Money Goes When You Buy a Buffer Subscription

Buffer Resources

Our hosting costs include service providers like AWS, Cloudflare, MongoDb, Twitter, etc. Merchant Fees At Buffer, we rely on Stripe, Google, and Apple for our payment processing needs. Stripe payments make up 98.5 percent of our total revenue and 83 percent of our fees. Google and Apple payments make up 2.5%