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A Flare Across the Clouds : Cloudflare's Earnings Report

Tom Tunguz

I’m watching public company earnings to identify early trends in the software market to inform startups’ plans for 2023. But it may also suggest that many resellers with large sales teams looking to sustain their transactional businesses are able to drive additional software bookings. Yesterday, Cloudflare announced earnings.

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Are You Getting More Competitive, Or Less Competitive? Hitting the Plan Might Not Be Enough

SaaStr

All software slowly but surely gets out of date. DigitalOcean is growing more slowly than its mega competitors Azure, AWS, etc. If nothing else, you can pretty reliability track headcount growth on LinkedIn). Your competitors have the same seasons. You can’t blame it on market changes. Again, they play in the same market.

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Clouded Judgement 3.22.24 - ERR vs ARR and the Conundrum of AI Revenue Streams Today

Clouded Judgement

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Enterprise software businesses strive for 90-95% gross retention (generally the percent of revenue that sticks with you vs churns altogether), with net expansion in the 120%+ range (the aggregate change in expansion - contraction - churned revenue).

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16 Changes to the Way Enterprises Are Building and Buying Generative AI

Andreessen Horowitz

Leaders are starting to reallocate AI investments to recurring software budget lines. In 2024, however, many leaders are reallocating that spend to more permanent software line items; fewer than a quarter reported that genAI spend will come from innovation budgets this year.

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Tabular: Turning Your Data Swamp into a Data Lakehouse with Apache Iceberg

Clouded Judgement

If you don’t want to manage all of the infrastructure around Iceberg (plus allocating headcount to do this!) Typical data lake storage solutions include AWS S3, Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS), Google Cloud Storage (GCS) or Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). Iceberg is one ingredient in the fully packaged Tabular lakehouse.

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Best Applicant Tracking Systems for 2025

How To Buy Saas

Modern ATS software automates tedious tasks like job posting, resume screening, and interview scheduling, freeing HR teams to focus on engaging with candidates. From cloud-based SaaS solutions to on-premise enterprise software , businesses worldwide are leveraging ATS technology to build efficient, fair, and scalable hiring pipelines.

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The Bar Has Gone Up: The New Era of HyperFunctional SaaS with Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

Google Cloud , Azure, and GitLab, all tied directly or indirectly to AI, are seeing massive acceleration. But Google Cloud, Azure, and GitLab are all benefiting and on fire. You have to maybe either sell to different customers, or have to build more software or be more AI. You have to build better software for less money.