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From $1M to $3B ARR: Databricks CRO Ron Gabrisko on Scaling a Revenue Rocket Ship

SaaStr

With Databricks now one of the largest pre-IPO technology companies, with $10 billion of expected non-dilutive financing and a valuation of $62 billion, Ron’s insights are gold for any revenue leader looking to scale. And we expect our salespeople to understand the technology. We tend to be very technical.

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Signs We've Touched the Bottom

Tom Tunguz

Both Google & Microsoft announced growth rates in GCP & Azure that held steady from one quarter to the next. Microsoft’s Azure Open AI customer base grew 4x by count, up from 2500 last quarter : We have great momentum across Azure OpenAI Service. Satya Nadella’s view on technology?

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Thanks to Unit, Everstage, Aiven, Zip, and Mission Cloud for Sponsoring SaaStr Annual 2022!

SaaStr

Aiven provides managed open source data technologies on all major clouds. Currently, we offer Apache Kafka, Apache Cassandra, PostgreSQL, MySQL, OpenSearch, Redis, InfluxDB, Grafana, and M3 in more than 90 regions around the world on AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure, DigitalOcean, and UpCloud cloud platforms.

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Thanks to Calendly, Drift, Reprise, Secureframe, and Shift Paradigm for Sponsoring SaaStr Annual 2022!

SaaStr

Secureframe allows companies to get compliant within weeks, rather than months and monitors 100+ services, including AWS, GCP, and Azure. By breaking down the typical silos of technology and strategy, we collaborate with clients to increase revenues, align teams, and engage your best customers.

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Cloud-Based Solutions: The Sky Is the Limit for Retail Success

Speaker: Ryan Bryers, SVP of Global Engineering

With technology giants like Google, AWS, and Azure leading the charge, the true value of the cloud extends far beyond cost savings. In a rapidly evolving industry, the shift from traditional on-premise systems to cloud-based solutions has become crucial for retail success.

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Data Lake Engines - The Essential Layer of the Next Generation Data Architecture

Tom Tunguz

More data is being stored in data lakes like Amazon S3 and Azure Data Lake Storage. Under the hood, a number of query acceleration technologies combine to make queries 10x+ faster. We shared a vision for a new way of working with data. Today, the company is announcing a $70M Series C to help them along that journey.

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Seven Strategic Rationales for the Microsoft/Github Acquisition

Tom Tunguz

Microsoft has published Linux and FreeBSD for Azure. To migrate enterprise on-prem code to Azure is a huge competitive advantage. Elegant on-ramp for a developer to become a paying Azure customer. With that first party data set, they can acquire or compete with the teams building those technologies. M &A Intelligence.