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State of the Cloud 2023 with Bessemer Venture Partners (Video + Podcast)

SaaStr

Discover Bessemer Venture Partners’s annual State of the Cloud report, going through trends, benchmarks, and metrics that underpin the Cloud economy. The past twelve months have been relatively turbulent for Cloud founders. What does this mean for Cloud companies? What does this mean for Cloud companies?

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In the Vault: Placing Multiple Bets on a ‘Mosaic of Solutions’ With Former Global Payments CEO Jeff Sloan

Andreessen Horowitz

In this conversation, a16z General Partner Angela Strange talks with J eff Sloan, former CEO of Global Payments, about how he was early to spot significant industry trends, how to make bets that move an organization, and the sea change that AI represents for the financial services industry. Angela: Why Global Payments?

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14 User Behavior Trends For SaaS in 2024

User Pilot

Product analytics can help you track changing user behavior for your app but here are some industry-wide changes that are influencing purchasing decisions in 2024. The former tracks trends for software users , while a consumer behavior trend mainly refers to online shopping, such as buy-now-pay-later payment methods.

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BarbAIrians at the Gate: The Financial Opportunity of AI

Andreessen Horowitz

Released in 1979, VisiCalc was the first “killer app” of finance (on the Apple IIe!), Generative AI is likely going to usher in a far more profound method of company transformation. Verification, validation, obscure corner cases, automation of tedious tasks—all of these can be done by AI. billion, against almost $2.8

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Summary of New York Tech Week 2023 (Itaú BBA, BTG, BofA)

SaaSHolic

Three important factors for companies to consider when implementing AI are discussed: organizational structure, management systems, and leadership models, with an emphasis on simplicity and financial optimization in data processes.

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Will AI Accelerate Vertical SaaS Adoption?

Point Nine Land

However, there’s a vast discrepancy between the speed of mainstream adoption for consumer apps and the rate at which most companies transition to a new technology and delivery mechanism like SaaS. And when we look beyond North America, global cloud maturity rates vary widely, too.” restaurant locations. restaurant locations.

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Unbundling the Game Engine: The Rise of Next Generation 3D Creation Engines

Andreessen Horowitz

The emergence of generative AI, cloud computing, and new spatial platforms is poised to disrupt 3D creation end-to-end. The name RenderMan was coined in reference to the Sony Walkman for a futuristic rendering software that was so tiny it could fit inside a pocket.