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Clouded Judgement 8.4.23 - Cloud Giants Q2 Update

Clouded Judgement

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Subscribe now Cloud Giants Update “What we're seeing in the quarter is that those cost optimizations, while still going on, are moderating and many maybe behind us in some of our large customers. Follow along to stay up to date!

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Clouded Judgement 4.21.23

Clouded Judgement

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). Morgan Stanley released a report yesterday suggesting “cloud optimizations [were] an intensifying headwind in Q1.”

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Snow Angels Come Early to Data : Snowflake's Strength Spells Success for Startups

Tom Tunguz

” A surprising impact of the cost-cutting may be increased margins for SaaS providers on infrastructure as their own cost reductions manifest as margin improvements. Improved terms from the cloud service providers have contributed to margin expansion.”

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Clouded Judgement 10.28.22

Clouded Judgement

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. It shows the number of months it takes for a SaaS business to payback their fully burdened CAC on a gross profit basis.

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Clouded Judgement 11.10.23 - OpenAI Updates + Datadog Gives the All-Clear?

Clouded Judgement

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Quarterly Reports Summary Top 10 EV / NTM Revenue Multiples Top 10 Weekly Share Price Movement Update on Multiples SaaS businesses are generally valued on a multiple of their revenue - in most cases the projected revenue for the next 12 months.

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Clouded Judgement 8.11.23 - Datadog Consumption Trends

Clouded Judgement

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. The weakness they called out was from larger cloud-native businesses. The hyperscalers (AWS, Azure, GCP) are seeing some uptick, but this is largely from selling compute (ie cloud GPUs). Follow along to stay up to date!

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