Clouded Judgement

MARCH 28, 2025

Any disruption of service at this facility could harm our business… We currently intend to add a second data center facility in 2008, the primary purpose of which is to add capacity. Fast forward to the launch of AWS and the public cloud. I created this subset to show companies where FCF is a relevant valuation metric.

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Cloud AI Scale Scaling 299

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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Cloud GCP(Google Cloud Platform) AWS Azure 176

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.

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Cloud Azure GCP(Google Cloud Platform) AWS 157

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.

Scale 151

Scale Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Technical Review 151

SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2022

Companies can create content that increases conversions and dialogues by using the tool’s metrics. The company offers many solutions that help to automate all of the sales process’s repetitive chores, such as sending follow-up emails and tracking engagement metrics. Capillary Technologies.

SaaS Payments 11

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payments 11

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 a lot of our SaaS efficiency metrics were worse because of those competitive dynamics.

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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. There’s details, metrics, and no one cared. Is that about the…?

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Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring AWS Business Model 246