Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

A lot of the things that we ultimately did when I was running Global Payments from 2013 to 2023, a lot of things that we ultimately did were not even like a glint in my eye back in 2009, 2010 when I was just thinking about coming over. Think about the ascendancy of the cloud in terms of technology environments.

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Outseta

MAY 8, 2020

Exactly 10 years ago today—May 10, 2010—I slinked through office doors that opened to my first day of work at a “real job.” Perhaps best of all, the advent of cloud computing has made the barrier to entry in this field lower than ever before. There’s an awful lot of nuance here and the devil is in the details.

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Outseta

AUGUST 23, 2017

Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, Co-founders of project management software company Basecamp , weighed in on this exact topic in their 2010 book Rework. What would happen is one of the development guys would come to me and say ‘We need more cloud hosting servers, I think we should use these, can we do it?’

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 31, 2019

The most triumphant transfer of control from an original generation leader to a new CEO was surely that of Microsoft, which pivoted from chasing after Apple’s success in the consumer space under Steve Ballmer (don’t mention Nokia ) to successfully focusing on the cloud under Satya Nadella (please do mention Azure). Big tech takes over.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2022

Found by Girish Mathrubootham and Shan Krishnasam in 2010, Freshworks specializes in providing SaaS customer engagement solutions to businesses of all sizes. CloudCherry is a cloud-based CRM ( customer relationship management ) company that assists its clients’ tracking and enhancing their customer engagement. Freshworks.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2022

My job was to look at what was happening in the world economy – it was like 2010 at the time, and so everything was kind of falling apart – and then look at data about it and try to come up with recommendations about what policymakers should do. The core of this is the data warehouse. There are a bunch of ways you can define it.

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SaaStr

JUNE 15, 2021

Twilio is a cloud communications platform that allows software developers to embed communications into the apps that they’re building. 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 : Yeah, I saw one.

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SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

This is where the cloud meets. And so when we think back to what was happening when we started back in 2010 when we were working on this idea in 2009, we just saw there’s this huge shift going on, where we were going from a world from hardware and software that you owned, to services in the cloud that you rented.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Amazon Web Services (AWS). Amazon, the global marketplace, also offers several other services, one of which is Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS offers cloud services to businesses. Coupa is a cloud-based expenditure management software for businesses. Founded in: 2010. Founded in: 2010. Coupa Software.

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2020

And so when you think back to what was happening, when we start back in 2010, when we were working on this idea in 2009, we just saw there’s this huge shift going on, where we were going from a world from hardware and software that you owned to services in the cloud that you rented. And so this huge shift was going on.

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