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Clouded Judgement 2.2.24 - Cloud Giants Report Q4 '23

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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 10.27.23 - Cloud Giants Report Q3 '23

Clouded Judgement

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.

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Clouded Judgement 12.1.23 - Net New ARR Starts to Rebound + AWS ReInvent Recap

Clouded Judgement

.” And Adam Selipsky at Amazon said “many customers have completed their cost optimization, and we’re hopeful for increased growth. Given most software companies are not profitable, or not generating meaningful FCF, it’s the only metric to compare the entire industry against.

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Clouded Judgement 8.4.23 - Cloud Giants Q2 Update

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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. The promise of SaaS is that growth in the early years leads to profits in the mature years. Follow along to stay up to date!

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Monetization: What SaaS platform builders need to know to prepare for growth, Part 2

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When developing a SaaS product plan, it’s important to recognize two foundational principles. First, SaaS is a business strategy, not a technology strategy. Second, there is no one-size-fits-all SaaS architecture (the second principle is a corollary of the first). Cost of discovery from the customer’s perspective.

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Clouded Judgement 10.28.22

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Hyperscalers Report Quarterly Earnings This week we saw AWS (Amazon), GCP (Google) and Azure (Microsoft) report earnings. It’s always great that the hyper scalers report first, I’ll keep an eye on all of the upcoming reports to see what trends emerge. Quarterly Reports Summary Earning season is upon us!

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7 Ways to build Enterprise Readiness into your SaaS roadmap

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Many started long before SaaS emerged as a smarter, better way to build, buy and sell software. That means they’ve got plenty of software they already depend on that needs to work with whatever your SaaS product can do for them. Here are seven things enterprise SaaS customers look for. #1