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. On top of that- we HAVE seen significant pricing pressure. S3 has dropped nearly 97% in price, while EC2 has fallen nearly 90%! Why am I mentioning all this?

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Buffer Resources

AUGUST 16, 2023

Our hosting costs include service providers like AWS, Cloudflare, MongoDb, Twitter, etc. Another area we anticipate we will continue to invest in is AI. At this point, we have built an AI assistant to generate content for our customers, and we are also using AI internally for areas such as Engineering and Marketing.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

It was around that time about 12 years ago that Jeff Bezos launched AWS, and some of you may remember that, when he did this, Wall Street analysts were looking at him and saying, “Why would you take what’s already a very unprofitable business and drive it further into the red by investing in this AWS initiative?”

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2022

Found in 2011 by Sanjoe Jose, Talview is one of the fastest hiring and recruitment software for enterprise employers. Found in 2011 by Byju Raveendran and Divya Gokulnath, BYJU’S is an e-learning program, a brand of the Bangalore-based educational technology ( EdTech ) Think and Learn Private Ltd.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 31, 2019

It was in August 2011 that Marc Andreessen coined the famous phrase “ Software is eating the world ” in a Wall Street Journal op-ed. Apple survived the death of Steve Jobs in October 2011 under the thoughtful stewardship of Tim Cook, and continued to essentially be the iPhone company, while branching into wearables and services.

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Clouded Judgement

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Subscribe now The Platform Evolution Cycle I think we’re entering a really interesting point in the AI platform shift. I call this the “Reinvention Loop", and I think we’re just starting to hit this point in the AI platform shift. This is why we’re seeing some of these AI companies scale as quickly as they are.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2019

I was the 12th employee of a test prep company that grew to close to 200 employees by the time I left, joined Twitter when they were really starting to build out the sales organization in early 2011, as the first sales manager hired, and after being there for over six years, I really missed the building stage of the company.

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