Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 26, 2023

This drop in prices has grown AWS into a $90b revenue business in 17 years. As storage & compute became less expensive, the economic viability of new use cases became increasingly apparent & developers built software on the cloud. Compare that to AWS’ managed database, Aurora, which charges $0.0000002 per request. (I’m

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

The same is true in software. In this battle, I’ve found a secret weapon hidden within one of our core engineering strategies, an idea called Run Less Software. As well as being a critical philosophy behind how we build software, it also represents how I feel about the software industry and technology in general.

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Clouded Judgement

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Subscribe now Software Setup Currently, interest rates seem to be the primary driver of software valuations. Follow along to stay up to date! So until we get that data, we’ll see short term moves more tied to rates.

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Chart Mogul

JANUARY 28, 2022

A few months ago, we retired our last pieces of infrastructure on DigitalOcean, marking our migration to AWS as complete. Our journey was not your regular AWS migration as it involved moving our infrastructure from classic VMs to containers orchestrated by Kubernetes. Lack of modern cloud features and managed services.

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SaaStr

APRIL 2, 2023

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: It’s Now Year 2 of the Venture Downturn Clawbacks and Tracking-to-Cash: Two Sales Management Tools to Be Thoughtful With 8 Things That Are Just Harder in SaaS Now Tier 1 VC is Great. But More Money May Be Even Better. What’s Holding Up Buyers?:

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Clouded Judgement

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Amazon on AWS : “…customers are continuing to shift their focus towards driving innovation and bringing new workloads to the cloud. I’d say both of the “non AI” Azure / AWS figures weren’t actually that strong?

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Amanda Malko is CMO at G2, a software marketplace and review site that reaches over 60 million buyers annually across 2000 software categories. In this session, she shares insights and trends from research conducted this year that can help software buyers and sellers make smarter decisions about software and the market. .

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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. Today, one-third of daily internet users visit websites built on top of AWS. AWS is now an $11.5B Working backwards isn’t a silver bullet that guarantees you success on the scale of AWS.

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Frontegg

JUNE 30, 2021

Your development team would have to manage the infrastructure of the servers, updates, and incorporation of new functionalities separately for each instance. With a SaaS application that uses a multi-tenant architecture , the software and web development teams will need to implement and support a single codebase and not multiple mutations.

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Clouded Judgement

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. You can see some quotes from Azure / AWS in my Q2 recap , and pasted below. I believe one of the bigger reasons software has held up despite the run up in the 10Y to 5% is the expectation for re-acceleration (ie numbers / forecasts going up).

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 28, 2022

I would pay each product provider in their own token: one for storage, compute, caching/CDN, email subscription management, etc. Paying five decentralized providers in five different tokens means managing several wallets and monitoring token prices to hedge expenses. Third, software engineers decentralize only a subset of the app.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 19, 2018

Yet competition and the exponential rate of change in software are pushing against that mission. Enter our philosophy of Run Less Software. Our chat covers the origins of Run Less Software, how it has evolved at scale, and how it differs from the equally valid approaches of other engineering teams.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2021

This post is an adaptation of a talk I recently gave at the Amazon Web Services (AWS) community day event in Dublin about the technical strategies I’ve experienced that don’t work and the ones that have helped us to grow and scale at Intercom. At Intercom, we’ve found success running Lambda as glue code between AWS services.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 16, 2022

The secret to Intercom’s success in this realm is simple: years of consistent, careful, and multi-faceted cultural, organizational, systems and software engineering work. We manage risk and respond instantly when things go wrong. The program team works with managers across Engineering to deeply understand any risks we’re facing”.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 22, 2022

They will manage their own servers to reduce the $3m annual AWS bill by 60%. A recent survey showed the typical company would halve its costs by managing its own servers. Reverting back to self-managed infrastructure might hold some appeal for companies focused on financial optimization rather than growth.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The GDC Expo showcases the latest game development tools and services from leading technology companies such as AWS, Epic, and Google. Head over to the registration page to grab your ticket and get access to incredible speakers, unparalleled networking opportunities, and proprietary software that will maximize your experience even more!

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IT World

APRIL 22, 2020

Google Cloud has announced that Anthos — the company’s software for deploying and managing Kubernetes workloads across multiple on-prem and cloud environments — now supports running workloads on rival cloud platform Amazon Web Services (AWS), with Microsoft Azure support still in preview for now.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 25, 2022

At Intercom, we aim to run less software. We work exclusively with AWS as our cloud services provider and currently provide data hosting offerings in three different global regions – US, EU, and Australia – each architected across multiple availability zones for high availability. Our tooling allows for high availability.

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FastSpring

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

It is the largest in-person event in the country—2,000+ attendees, 800+ companies, and 100+ speakers—along with features such as Betakit Keynote Stage, AWS Pitchfest, Workspaces Tradeshow. Our platform includes branded localized checkout, subscription management, and so much more. Schedule a demo now or at SaaS North in person!

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IT World

AUGUST 27, 2019

SAN FRANCISCO—VMware has uncorked a variety of software products and services aimed at letting customers more quickly and securely build and manage hybrid-cloud environments. VMware used its VMworld customer event here to expand its cloud role to Dell/EMC and broadened its role with Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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Audacix

JUNE 9, 2023

Table Of Contents As a software engineering leader, you know application security is no longer an activity that you can palm off to someone else. With the increasing number of sensitive data security breaches, it's essential to have the right automated application security tools in place to protect your software.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 8, 2023

Strategic finance can be thought of as a project management function for your company’s underlying business model or a BizOps team that operates within a more financial lens. Capital Raising Manage and execute equity and debt transaction to raise capital. Cross-Functional Alignment Get buy-in from all stakeholders on key initiatives.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Our mission is to build powerful and secure cloud software for subscription businesses of all sizes, with a strong emphasis on good design and ease of use. ChurnZero lets your CS team manage and expand accounts at scale with proactive, personalized engagement that helps every customer succeed.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 20, 2023

For example, Google and AWS are already ZoomInfo customers, but only certain sub-segments within those businesses – not the entire org. From Henry’s perspective, their software vertical and tech customers have hit a wall. The worst emotion for software sales is uncertainty.

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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. Prismatic is the integration platform for B2B software companies.

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 25, 2023

Clouds are picking teams in one of the most important dislocations in software. DataBricks, whose business revolves around Spark operating in customer environments, has announced plans to acquire Mosaic, a vertically integrated model training & management system that functions on similar workloads.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

How quickly do the fastest growing software companies build their teams? In fact, this data bolsters the notion that management team’s top priority is recruiting, especially after the business has reached product market fit and capitalized itself well. The answer is incredibly quickly. They start around 25 people.

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Clouded Judgement

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Hyperscaler Preview Next week Amazon, Microsoft and Google report earnings and we’ll see Q3 data for AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. Follow along to stay up to date! Said another way, the 10Y today is double what it averaged from 2010 to 2020.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 30, 2022

When you’re selecting tools for your startup tech stack, you don’t need all the bells and whistles of enterprise software – in fact, tools built for more mature companies will likely have more complexity (and thus more costs) than you really need at this early stage. AWS – Cloud computing. Look for tools that can scale with you.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Since Michael founded the firm in 2004, it has grown to over 30 offices worldwide, and they’ve worked with Intel, AWS, and Salesforce, among many other well-known brands. Needless to say, Michael knows a thing or two about helping software and big tech manage their global marketing presence. 00:01:00] Enjoy.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 9, 2020

But every business leader has a few top pressing problems that a software vendor can solve. 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.

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Blulogix

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Streamlining Success: Five Keys to Automating Usage-Based Billing for Managed Services Providers By BluLogix Team Don’t forget to sign up now to learn more about how to implement usage based pricing models in our upcoming webinar with MGI Research. Efficient management of new services and clients.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 27, 2021

Anyone who has ever tried to sell software to developers probably learned pretty quickly that traditional B2B marketing tactics just plain don’t work. That’s why I interviewed more than 50 developers in DevOps, DevSecOps, and generalist back-end roles about how they prefer to discover, try, and purchase software. Here’s What I Learned.

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IT World

APRIL 10, 2019

Cisco has released a cloud-service program on its flagship software-defined networking (SDN) software that will let customers manage and secure applications running in the data center or in Amazon Web Service cloud environments. Check out What is hybrid cloud computing and learn what you need to know about multi-cloud. |

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 8, 2020

The customer success team would like help deploying the software to new customers. Most of the time, customers suggest these integrations as part of their feedback to account management and customer support. Marketplaces: AWS marketplace, Heroku marketplace, Salesforce marketplace. The sales team asks for more leads.

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User Pilot

APRIL 29, 2024

Service providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure offer server hosting and load-balancing services. Service providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Microsoft Azure offer infrastructure services that support backend development. Programming languages.

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

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 But also it’s allowed us to get much closer to our provider, I mean, we host and run 100% on AWS, but pull data from everywhere.

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