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SaaS companies quickly replacing subscriptions with usage-based pricing

OPEXEngine

There is an appetite for usage-based pricing, and we expect this to continue to accelerate in the coming months,” says Kyle Poyar, operating partner at OpenView, a venture capital firm. It has tended to be used most in infrastructure platforms, like AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure. But that has been changing.

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

SaaStr

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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Starting Up In A Downturn with Cloudflare COO and Co-Founder Michelle Zatelyn (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

I mean them an Azure, like they’ve just had tremendous success, but 10 years ago that wasn’t a given. And what that means for your culture because it’s not just growth that drives retention, but it’s also the maintenance in the context of that growth, the maintenance of some baseline of culture and values.