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The Latest in VC Funding + Scaling SaaS: An AMA with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin (Pod 581)

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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. And the money is just to facilitate it. Probably a good thing to talk about.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Byron Deeter, Elliott Robinson, Henry Schuck, and Jason Lemkin

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They’re facilitating virtual schooling, they’re helping governments organize. Azure has been gaining on them rapidly and is growing a double that rate. Then they found somewhere in like year 2014 and ’15 that they could layer in something like payments as an additional way to monetize their customer base.