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How Your Sales Team Can Use PLG to Acquire and Expand New Customers Faster with Uday Chakravarth, Former Head of PLG at Atlassian 

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With a PLG-heavy background, first working at Microsoft Azure and again with Atlassian, the PLG pioneers, he gives insights into leveraging PLG for the growth of your organization. Atlassian, Microsoft Azure, and Zoom are good examples of that. How PLG Evolved First, let’s start with PLG and its evolution.

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Clouded Judgement 10.27.23 - Cloud Giants Report Q3 '23

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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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Clouded Judgement 7.28.23 - Optimization Cycles and Economy Update

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Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. AI = Data + Compute I’ll continue beating this drum, but we got two great quotes from Azure and AWS this week. Powell said the Fed staff no longer is forecasting a recession. This could be a trend of improving buyer dynamics?

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Clouded Judgement 1.6.23

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Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Cloud Downgrades This week UBS came out with a couple research reports citing concerns in AWS / Azure growth. This brings me back to AWS / Azure downgrades. Follow along to stay up to date! How far do forward estimates need to come down?

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A Look Back at Q4 '23 Public Cloud Software Earnings

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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. If we break this down and look at Azure and AWS independently (graphs below), you’ll see how the AWS “swings” were a lot more volatile.

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What to Know About the Software Buying Landscape in 2023: What’s Changed, What’s the Same, and What Your Buyers Want with G2 CMO Amanda Malko (Video)

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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. . Next year is forecasted to be even more bullish. Another exciting trend is that more products are being bought than ever before.

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Clouded Judgement 5.26.23

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Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Early Look at May Consumption Trends This week kicked of Q1 earnings reports for companies with April quarter ends. This means we got commentary for the first time on May trends. Follow along to stay up to date! What did we learn?

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