Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Putting narrative order on the past decade, a 10-year-period that has somehow remained stubbornly nameless, is quite the challenge, but it’s impossible to make sense of the 2010s without understanding the role of software. To give some perspective, there were about 300 million smartphones sold in 2010.

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

And as a result of this large concentration of spend, these large cloud vendors have created cloud marketplaces that allow you to take that $158 million of committed spend and actually use it to procure startup solutions and other ISV solutions on their respective marketplaces. AWS’s marketplace has seen 1.5

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SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2022

If you didn’t catch it the other day … and you can read about it on SaaStr …Microsoft and Google Cloud both had extremely strong quarters, Microsoft Azure grew 40% last quarter , and a record number of nine-figure and billion-dollar deals. Microsoft Azure’s at incredible scale and it still grew 40% last quarter.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

You see that both organizations embracing this cloud movement, but specifically in COVID, more and more companies turning to the cloud as their solution for business continuity or for business growth in these times when shelter in place is making on-prem solutions difficult and in many cases, impossible to use. It is staggering.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

I think Azure’s like 7,000, Google. These are categories of software that have existed for 30 or 40 years for a reason. You can mock Salesforce or Oracle or Workday, but these are endemic issues that will always need heavy software. Then a lot of folks will say, “Well, great, another video app.

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