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Clouded Judgement - 3.28.25 - The New AI Risk Curve

Clouded Judgement

If we look at the NetSuite S-1 (filed in 2007) they said this: “We use a single data center to deliver our services. Fast forward to the launch of AWS and the public cloud. If you wanted to scale users and growth, you needed to scale a physical data infrastructure footprint. It wasn’t very elastic.

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The decade software ate the world

Intercom, Inc.

The wave of SaaS companies that built themselves on the likes of AWS and Azure have reinforced the pre-eminence of cloud computing. What was perhaps less predictable was the ensuing prevalence of the subscription-based business model. From movies and TV to music, we now live in a cloud-enabled, subscription-based streaming wonderland.

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David Barrett, CEO of Expensify: Good Intentions, Bad Advice: How to Keep Your Board Aligned with Your Vision (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

It’s a brutal, awful slog in the start. I would say, it’s always good to call out just how awful it is to be a founder, to be an entrepreneur, because that is a unique perspective that you bring to the board room that no one else shares. That sounds like an awful idea,” and then you have to work for it.

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How to Find Old Tweets

Neil Patel

In my case, we can see I joined Twitter pretty early on in March 2007. Finding my first tweet is as simple as going back to the advanced search feature and apply the following filters: My account (@neilpatel) The date range (March 1, 2007 – March 31, 2007). You can also use it to find your first tweet ever. TweetDeleter.

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GTM 146: The Future of Search, AI, and Digital Presence with Mike Walrath, CEO of Yext

Sales Hacker

in July 2007. 00:04:00] But that changed when we sold right media to Yahoo in 2007. And so I kind of had to bone up on the history of, what had gone on between, call it the late nineties and 2007 in the search space, we’re in a moment there in 2008, 2009 where we’re just getting our. At Yahoo!,

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Chargebee vs. Zuora: A Detailed Look

Baremetrics

Zuora Founded in 2007, Zuora is an enterprise billing and invoicing company that helps businesses launch and manage their subscription-based services. Their integration to SF is also quite awful, and most of the time, the data does not appear. Chargebee is extremely easy to use with an excellent and receptive support team.

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Key Lessons from a $5B SaaS Category Leader (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And those of us and those of you who are involved in these companies, even the successful ones look an awful lot more like this. You can see 2007 to 2008 we went from one to two. I think this is the misconception that many people have, that a successful company is a smooth up and to the right journey from the beginning.

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