Clouded Judgement

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. You can see some quotes from Azure / AWS in my Q2 recap , and pasted below. AWS was the the most positive sounding when it came to trends around optimizations. On Tuesday, Azure and Google spooked the market. which feels unlikely.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 25, 2023

I’m watching public company earnings to identify early trends in the software market to inform startups’ plans for 2023. Google Cloud Platform (GCP) & Microsoft Azure had strong quarters with about 28% annual revenue growth each. The total customer count for Azure’s OpenAI has grown dramatically.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 23, 2023

The transcript highlights the major trends in software of 2023. Below, I’ve listed those trends with data & excerpts from the earnings call transcript. We saw moderated consumption growth in Azure and lower-than-expected growth [elsewhere]. At some point, the optimizations will end.

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Clouded Judgement

MAY 3, 2024

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. We now have results from the three hypersclaers (AWS / Azure / GCP). ” Full quote below: “We're seeing a few trends right now. Follow along to stay up to date! The most notable change in tone was Andy Jassy talking about AWS.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 25, 2023

I’m watching public company earnings to identify early trends in the software market to inform startups’ plans for 2023. Both Google & Microsoft announced growth rates in GCP & Azure that held steady from one quarter to the next. Yesterday, Microsoft & Google announced earnings. The desire for AI is broad.

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Clouded Judgement

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. ” Microsoft on Azure : “And I think last quarter, we said one, we are going to continue to have these cycles where people will build new workloads. Follow along to stay up to date!

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

A year ago, AWS, GCP, & Azure averaged 44% annual growth. The collection of these three earnings calls presages continued reduction in growth rates, likely through the end of the year, as most businesses favor profits over growth - a trend echoing across Startupland. Growth will continue to slow this year.

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Clouded Judgement

APRIL 28, 2023

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. AWS (Amazon), Azure (Microsoft), and Google Cloud (Google) all reported this week. It’s pretty well understood that consumption trends will bottom and reverse prior to seat based purchasing. Azure came in at 31% (constant currency).

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Consumption continued to grow in the month of October…Consumption trends have improved.” “Yes, we actually saw quite a bit of energy coming from the Azure platform this quarter. ” The resurgence of strength is a recent phenomenon. ” “We are seeing stability in customer expansion patterns.

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Clouded Judgement

AUGUST 4, 2023

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. But what I would add is that we saw Q2 trends continue into July.” And most importantly, they’ve seen these positive trends continue. Follow along to stay up to date! So those balanced out in Q2.

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Clouded Judgement

APRIL 11, 2024

It looks at the YoY dollar change in quarterly revenue from the hyperscalers (just looking at Azure / AWS because the data goes back further) going back a few years. If we break this down and look at Azure and AWS independently (graphs below), you’ll see how the AWS “swings” were a lot more volatile.

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Clouded Judgement

MAY 10, 2024

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Follow along to stay up to date! Subscribe now Q1 Software Earnings Are… Not Good We’re about halfway through Q1 earnings season, and it’s not been pretty. So far - you’re either tied to AI tailwinds, or it’s rough out there.

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Clouded Judgement

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Hyperscalers Report Quarterly Earnings This week we saw AWS (Amazon), GCP (Google) and Azure (Microsoft) report earnings. At the same time, Azure came in below expectations. Follow along to stay up to date!

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Clouded Judgement

JANUARY 6, 2023

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Cloud Downgrades This week UBS came out with a couple research reports citing concerns in AWS / Azure growth. This brings me back to AWS / Azure downgrades. Follow along to stay up to date! How far do forward estimates need to come down?

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Clouded Judgement

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Hyperscaler Preview Next week Amazon, Microsoft and Google report earnings and we’ll see Q3 data for AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. Follow along to stay up to date! Said another way, the 10Y today is double what it averaged from 2010 to 2020.

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Clouded Judgement

JULY 28, 2023

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. AI = Data + Compute I’ll continue beating this drum, but we got two great quotes from Azure and AWS this week. This week we had two of the hypserscalers report (Microsoft / Azure and Google / GCP), and everyone was eager to see their results.

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Clouded Judgement

APRIL 21, 2023

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Next week we get all 3 hyperscalers reporting (AWS from Amazon, Azure from Microsoft, and GCP from Google). If we look at the trends in their most recent quarters YoY growth rates (below) you’ll see the deceleration has been meaningful.

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

I’m watching public company earnings to identify early trends in the software market to inform startups’ plans for 2023. Yesterday, Cloudflare announced earnings. I’m adding Cloudflare to the list of tracked companies for this series.

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Clouded Judgement

JANUARY 27, 2023

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Azure (Microsoft) Quarter The week the first of the cloud giants reported - Azure. Early Look at 2023 Guides Given the Azure weakness reported on Tuesday, all software tumbled Wednesday morning with most names down 5-10%.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 26, 2022

In this session, she shares insights and trends from research conducted this year that can help software buyers and sellers make smarter decisions about software and the market. . Another exciting trend is that more products are being bought than ever before. Next year is forecasted to be even more bullish.

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Clouded Judgement

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Subscribe now OpenAI Updates OpenAI had their big developer day this week, and I wanted to call out two key announcements (and trends): increasing context windows and decreasing costs. Follow along to stay up to date!

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Cloud Artificial Intelligence AI GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 183

Clouded Judgement

MAY 26, 2023

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Early Look at May Consumption Trends This week kicked of Q1 earnings reports for companies with April quarter ends. This means we got commentary for the first time on May trends. Follow along to stay up to date! What did we learn?

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Here, we trace some of the biggest trends and stories in technology over the past decade, and try to find a narrative to make sense of it all. There is a great responsibility to ensure it trends towards the former, not the latter. Big tech takes over. Rise of the cloud and SaaS businesses.

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2019

Microsoft Azure sales grew at 76% year over year in its most recent quarter. Wow, trending #1 on Github. The implementation sounds overly complicated, but still, a unique and compelling incentive to run some of your app on Azure. Buy Microsoft Stock Because of Its Big Cloud Deals, Says JPMorgan. The Next CEO of Stack Overflow.

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

The SaaS industry is growing fast, but if you want to be one of the companies contributing to that trend, you'll need to know the secrets of successful SaaS businesses. SaaS trends that are on the rise. Here are some of the biggest trends in the industry right now: Cloud-based Services. AI Integrations.

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OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Microsoft’s recent deal with SAP to bring SAP cloud customers onto the Azure platform, together with similar deals with Oracle and VMWare, gives AWS a run for its money. Cost of revenue is trending down for SaaS companies, leading to higher gross margins. and Adobe is in third place with 6.7%

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Clouded Judgement

MARCH 22, 2024

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. This is why the consumption players (Snowflake, Mongo, Confluent, Azure, AWS, etc) so more variability in the macro slowdown. Follow along to stay up to date! ” Let’s look at consumption revenue - this is also not technically recurring!

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Combining these 2 market trends – 1) rising revenue multiples and 2) easier access to capital – is the “Rule of 40” still as relevant compared to 2015? You can’t pay your Azure bill or office lease in “Rule of 40” points. Ultimately, the “Rule of 40” is ONLY a metric.

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Clouded Judgement

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. As you can tell, there’s a BIG drop-off projected in 2023 Like Azure, they called for a big slowdown of consumption trends in the month of December. Follow along to stay up to date!

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Clouded Judgement

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. In the short term, enjoy the ride as the chase continues 😊 Kind of related to all of this - we now have seen the Q4’s from AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. Follow along to stay up to date! It’s a place I collect my thoughts.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 7, 2022

It becomes handy in analyzing different product trends where I want to look at customers of certain segments. For more on Destinations, check out our latest release, Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, or Azure Blob Storage as a destination. I export activities to recreate historical MRR by date for each customer.

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Clouded Judgement

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Maybe with the exception of hyperscalers (particularly Azure). Follow along to stay up to date! Already we’ve seen huge earnings move. It’s actually the complete opposite - there will be more deceleration in Q4 (according to guides).

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 25, 2021

It can identify market trends, uncover insights, determine outliers, and monitor crucial business metrics. Power BI can integrate with Azure Machine Learning—plus, its ML and AI features are driven by Azure functions built into the Azure Cloud.

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Blulogix

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Enhanced Data Insights Usage-based pricing generates extensive data that can be harnessed by technology companies to gain insights into customer behavior, preferences, and emerging trends. This shift is more than a trend; it’s a transformation of how technology is accessed, consumed, and paid for.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

It gives insights into trends and patterns by considering past actions within your product. Diagnostic analytics Diagnostic analytics involves finding the root cause behind customer data trends. Segmenting customers lets you recognize patterns and trends. It also gives you valuable feedback on how different user segments behave.

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OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

While we aren’t going 100% usage-based overnight, if you look at some of the mega-trends in software—things like automation, AI, and APIs—the value of a product normally doesn’t scale with more folks logging in. Usage-based pricing will be the key to successful monetization in the future.”. Land-and-expand is real.

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Mattermark

AUGUST 22, 2017

Natasha Azur of Osage Partners takes a look at trends in venture capital activity ( which we’ve also been digging into lately on the Mattermark blog ) in “ What’s the Pulse on 2017 Midyear VC Investment?

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