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Clouded Judgement 8.2.24 - Uncertainty Everywhere

Clouded Judgement

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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Clouded Judgement 9.27.24 - The Foundation of Foundation Models

Clouded Judgement

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). 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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GTM 140: How Microsoft Scaled from $600M to $5B: The Enterprise Playbook with Hayden Stafford

Sales Hacker

Um, the goal was to bring all of those assets of Azure Modern Workplace, the business application side together, build a really powerful data set, um, all within that common data platform on Azure. Azure and how much consumption you’re driving there and transacting through their marketplaces. And, um, I made the jump.

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Top 30 SaaS Companies in India

SmartKarrot

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.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Tidelift and Cloudflare

SaaStr

And we started CloudFlare during the economic downturn right after the financial crisis in 2008. ” Because again, it was 2008. I mean, them and Azure, they’ve just had tremendous success. It’s way easier to compare business metrics. I’m Michelle Zatlyn. And so we started to work on this in 2009.

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Starting Up In A Downturn with Cloudflare COO and Co-Founder Michelle Zatelyn (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Michelle : During the economic downturn right after the financial crisis in 2008. I mean them an Azure, like they’ve just had tremendous success, but 10 years ago that wasn’t a given. Michelle Zatelyn | COO + Co-Founder @ Cloudflare. And so we started to work on this in 2009. And so this huge shift was going on.