Clouded Judgement

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Subscribe now Cloud Giants Report Q4 ‘23 Two quotes from the Amazon and Microsoft earnings call really stood out to me this week. Similar to what we shared last quarter, we continue to see the diminishing impact of cost optimizations. Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies.

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Clouded Judgement

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Subscribe now Cloud Giants Report Q3 ‘23 Not a great signal for software this week from the Cloud Giants (AWS, Azure and Google Cloud)…After Q2 (3 months ago), the tone from the Cloud Giants around optimizations was largely: optimizations have started to ease, and net new workloads have picked up. Bucketed by Growth.

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Clouded Judgement

DECEMBER 1, 2023

General purpose GenAI tools dominate the market today, but the tooling layer is starting to emerge to allow enterprises to fine tune models to their specific data. This was repeated quite a few times AI tends to be additive budget for large enterprises. A strong data foundation is critical for an effective AI strategy!

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Clouded Judgement

AUGUST 4, 2023

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. Multiples shown below are calculated by taking the Enterprise Value (market cap + debt - cash) / NTM revenue.

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Clouded Judgement

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Hyperscalers Report Quarterly Earnings This week we saw AWS (Amazon), GCP (Google) and Azure (Microsoft) report earnings. Regardless, the misses by the hyperscalers is a good proxy for broader enterprise software demand. Quarterly Reports Summary Earning season is upon us! Follow along to stay up to date!

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CloudGeometry

APRIL 25, 2022

Big enterprise customers have been buying software for a long time. There’s real payoff from careful attention to the issues that enterprise customers care about. There’s real payoff from careful attention to the issues that enterprise customers care about. Here are seven things enterprise SaaS customers look for. #1

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