article thumbnail

The Identity Crisis Facing Open Source Companies in the Cloud

Tom Tunguz

But the clouds are rolling in for open source companies (pun intended). Today, open source software faces an identity crisis: what does it mean to be an open source company in the cloud? On the other hand, the future is in cloud. But what does it mean to be open source in the cloud? It’s enterprise-first selling.

Cloud 272
article thumbnail

Doubling Down: Mary D’Onofrio, Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners

SaaStr

To prioritize efficient growth. #4. What’s your pulse check on the venture markets right now, today? Multiples have come down since the peak, and today the venture-growth markets are prioritizing efficient growth. HashiCorp __ Mary is a partner at Bessemer, where she primarily focuses on cloud software investments.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Cloud Daily from SaaStr Crosses 100,000 Followers. Lessons Learned.

SaaStr

So we decided to hack it a bit and use it as a feed to share our favorite 3-4 Cloud stories a day. We called our feed “ Cloud Daily “ In 6 months, we went to 100,000+ subscribers / followers and almost 7,000,000 views! Cloud Daily is 1000x more successful than our pretty darn similar feeds on Twitter and Flipboard.

Cloud 153
article thumbnail

Founders Today Just Need to Assume the Next Round Never Comes

SaaStr

And while AWS’s growth is down a bit, it’s still at epic levels, Azure isn’t even really down, and Google Cloud is growing faster than ever. It’s still close to the best times ever in SaaS for growth and customers, even with mixed signals in the economy. And yet … the stock markets have plummeted.

AWS 317
article thumbnail

Speaker Submissions are OPEN for SaaStr Europa 2023 in London, 6-7 June

SaaStr

CROs at well-known Cloud leaders. Great sessions on PLG, growth marketing and demand gen. We always end up with too many great potential speakers and not enough slots, so don’t wait to the last minute. What we’re looking for most of all: Underrepresented CEOs, founders and CXOs from $5m-$5000m ARR.

Cloud 207
article thumbnail

CB Insights: Yes, Venture is Down. But Really, It Just Seems to Be Back To Where It Was Before The Covid Boom.

SaaStr

This week in enterprise software: Top 10 #SaaS #Cloud multiples as of today's market close. The median multiple fell below 5x at market close for the first time since 2016 (when it briefly fell below 5x) pic.twitter.com/QZ605lMswz. And with it, the venture markets have clearly slowed down.

Startup 248
article thumbnail

Episode 42: A Mistake in Every Sentence

Sales Hacker

Manager, Outbound Growth Marketing at Greenhouse) and Will Allred (Co-Founder & COO at Lavender) to get TWO perspectives and TWO approaches on real sales emails, every week on Sales Hacker. We have centers of excellence in Cloud, Custom Software Development, DevOps, PEGA, SaaS, AI, Data warehousing, Data Analytics, BI, and Testing.