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5 Interesting Learnings from Crowdstrike at ~$3 Billion in ARR

SaaStr

64% of Large Customers Sourced From Partners They are AWS’s largest cybersecurity partner. Only Founded in 2011. Most Enterprises Buy More Than 60 Endpoint Security Products So there is room for many winners here. #8. What’s your channel / partner strategy? #9. Even in a time of odd uncertainty in Cloud and SaaS.

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$100 Million ARR Pivot: From Platform Product to Vertical Apps With Treasure Data CEO Kazuki Ohta (Podcast #506 and Video)

SaaStr

When it launched in 2011, Treasure Data’s positioning was a Hadoop-based big data warehouse in the cloud. Commoditization From AWS & Google Cloud. Kazuki Ohta, CEO & Founder at Treasure Data, shares his company’s story of how pivoting at the right time saved their business and accelerated their growth to $100 million ARR.

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The decade software ate the world

Intercom, Inc.

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 9.27.24 - The Foundation of Foundation Models

Clouded Judgement

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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Making our user storage more scalable and secure

Intercom, Inc.

2011 – MySQL. 2011-2014 – MongoDB. Internally, too, we were suffering – our infrastructure team spent nearly all their time keeping user storage alive, and it was not the sort of problem that we could solve by spending more with AWS. Evaluating AWS Databases. A brief history of user storage.

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Why You Want To Develop Product Painkillers, Not Vitamins with DigitalOcean CPO Gabe Monroy (Pod 633 + Video)

SaaStr

You Make Something Awesome, and No One Buys It Before Monroy joined Digital Ocean, he built a SaaS product with a friend in 2011. Tech companies realized that this cloud thing might be for real, but the word on the street was that AWS was too hard and complex for customers to realize its benefits. That’s when OpDemand was born.

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Move Over Subscriptions. The Future Is Elastic And Built Around Relationships.

Chargify

It’s likely that you have seen one of Martech’s Marketing Technology Landscape diagrams illustrating the rapid growth from ~150 players in 2011 to over 5,000 in 2017: Increased competition and saturated markets have eroded differentiation and perceived-value between products. with numerous upsell and cross-sell opportunities.