The Angel VC
MAY 12, 2018
When Salesforce had around $1B in revenue, in 2008, it had around 3,300 employees, so at that time its revenue per employee was around $327,000. 8 – Weaning off AWS Look at this. For what it’s worth, this also gives you a hint on the margins of AWS. #9 If you know or have an idea what I’m missing here, I’d love to hear it! #8
Clouded Judgement
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
Subscribe now Foundation Models Are to AI what S3 was to the Public Cloud Many people look at 2006 as the birth of the public cloud - the year Amazon launched AWS. Microsoft launched Azure in 2010, and Google launched GCP to the public in 2011 (they launched a preview of Google App Engine in 2008, but made it publicly available in 2011).
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Clouded Judgement
AUGUST 2, 2024
Wayfair CEO compared the drop in spend to home goods to the 2008 financial crisis: “Customers remain cautious in their spending on the home and our credit card data suggests that the category was down by nearly 25% from the peak we saw in the fourth quarter of 2021. Consumers appear to be slowing down.
SaaStr
OCTOBER 3, 2019
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. And so we funded it in 2006 that full product didn’t come out until 2008. And they invented a lot of the SaaS metrics that we all know and love now, were invented by Marketo back in 2008.
SaaStr
JULY 20, 2021
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.
SaaStr
JUNE 15, 2021
At the end of the day, Twilio still sells communications, AWS still sells servers, but the way we’re selling it is different than how it was done in yesteryear. Jeff : Basically, we launched voice in 2008, very end of 2008. I think of developers as the strategy to get into the market for whatever you’re doing.
Intercom, Inc.
JANUARY 24, 2019
It’s less expensive than it’s ever been in terms of actually getting a product to market, whether it’s leveraging platforms like Salesforce or GCP or AWS or Heroku. We had already achieved the mission, so after 2008 we backed off the pedal, so to speak. “We’re really trying to accelerate success.
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