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How Much Should You Expect Your Startup to Slow in 2022?

Tom Tunguz

With about 39% market share, AWS reigns supreme as the largest provider. GCP reported 37% growth & Microsoft 40%. Results from these clouds suggest the market isn’t as soft as the 30% estimate - at least not yet. AWS’s growth rate is the slowest of the three largest public infrastructure clouds.

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

Tom Tunguz

" As with many other companies reporting strength in the market, AI & unstructured data workloads are fueling growth. And as a result, our salespeople are really not inclined to do much in GCP.” Consumption continued to grow in the month of October…Consumption trends have improved.”

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The 4 Questions Startups Should Ask Themselves about Building with Generative AI

Tom Tunguz

There are 4 questions a startup should ask themselves about building a startup that uses generative AI. There are 4 questions startups should ask themselves about building with generative AI. Layer : application, platform, or infrastructure? Market : how to compete with incumbents?

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The Critical Question Facing Web3 Infrastructure Startups

Tom Tunguz

Perhaps this dynamic drives consolidation in the market, paralleling the web2 infrastructure hypermarts of AWS, GCP, and Azure. How this quandary resolves will determine the most attractive places to build new infrastructure startups. Third, software engineers decentralize only a subset of the app.

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Microsoft's Billion Dollar AI Business

Tom Tunguz

I’m watching public company earnings to identify early trends in the software market to inform startups’ plans for 2023. Yesterday, Microsoft & Google announced earnings. Google Cloud Platform (GCP) & Microsoft Azure had strong quarters with about 28% annual revenue growth each.

AI Search 201
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Signs We've Touched the Bottom

Tom Tunguz

I’m watching public company earnings to identify early trends in the software market to inform startups’ plans for 2023. Yesterday, Microsoft & Google announced earnings. Both Google & Microsoft announced growth rates in GCP & Azure that held steady from one quarter to the next.

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5 Security Changes Your Company Needs to Make to Land Enterprise Deals from Secureframe

SaaStr

As a startup, you’re doing a million things at once: building a product, answering customer tickets, developing a sales playbook, trying out different marketing hacks, and keeping the lights on. The reality is all large companies, and more and more mid-market companies, will require a SOC 2 report from their vendors.