Clouded Judgement

APRIL 11, 2024

Q4 earnings season for cloud businesses is now behind us. It looks at the YoY dollar change in quarterly revenue from the hyperscalers (just looking at Azure / AWS because the data goes back further) going back a few years. I consider >120% best in class for companies selling to SMBs (like Bill.com).

Cloud 177

Cloud Software Azure AWS 177

Clouded Judgement

JUNE 9, 2023

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Usage on Snowflake is driven by queries run on Snowflake Azure: Neutral Tone With Strength in AI Overall I’d characterize Azure’s quarter as a net positive. They were also more constructive on cloud optimizations bottoming.

Trends 130

Trends Cloud Azure AWS 130

Clouded Judgement

MARCH 22, 2024

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Subscribe now ARR (Annual Recurring Revenue) vs ERR (Experimental Runrate Revenue) ARR (Annual Recurring Revenue) is one of the most popular SaaS (Non-GAAP) metrics. It’s probably better described as re-occurring vs recurring.

AI 183

AI Revenue Cloud Technical Advisors 183

SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

Jessica Alexander, Senior Director Cloud Technology & OEM Partnerships, Crowdstrike. So for the audience, cloud giants are turbocharging startup sales, and the predominant reason for this is because they’re fundamentally changing IT budgets at the customers that we’re all selling to. Rico Mallozzi, Sr.

Scale 201

Scale Marketplace as a Service Cloud SaaS Payments 201

Clouded Judgement

JUNE 20, 2023

Q1 earnings season for cloud businesses is now behind us. On the Microsoft earnings call they said (related to Azure): “But at some point, workloads just can't be optimized much further. As you can see from the data below most cloud businesses beat the consensus estimates for Q1.

Cloud 161

Cloud Software Benchmarks Scale 161