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Going Big in Venture Capital

SaaStr

years ago in the first few months of SaaStr.com, in November 2012. A look back at sort of the same thing, same top fund, 10 years earlier, from 2012: I had a draft post I’d written weeks ago entitled something like “Color: Just an Enormously Large Seed Round Gone Horribly Wrong”, or something like that.

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Successes and Setbacks on the Road to $1B with Alessio Artuffo, President and COO at Docebo

SaaStr

Customers range from AWS skills-builder platforms with billions of users to Zoom using it for customers and employees. Docebo was started and funded in 2005 and became a SaaS player in 2012. In 2012, they started with a freemium model where people could go online with a credit card and pay $100 a month. Let’s dive into it.

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When did cloud computing start to become popular?

SaaStr

That $200b+ of additional Cloud and SaaS spend fueled 50+ Cloud unicorns and massive growth in AWS, Azure, etc. We all knew before 2012–2013 it would be big. It turned our CIOs and bigger companies were ready to transfer as much as another 20% of their $1 trillion+ IT budgets to Cloud far faster than any of us knew. But not this big.

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The SaaS Trust Crisis with Godard Abel (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And G2 Gives, we partner with philanthropies, we partner with some of our customers like AWS and Google Cloud, who can then make donations for every review, to thank their customers. And now, he’s an investor, but in 2012, he coined this very famous quote that, “Software is eating the world.”

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Key Lessons from a $5B SaaS Category Leader (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

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. Responses was acquired by Oracle, Neolane was acquired by Adobe all in 2012 and 2013. Challenges, mistakes, problems, surprises, every step of the way. And it’s the reaction to those problems.

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Founder’s Guide to Scaling Applications: When to Build, When to Buy and What Breaks by Algolia Co-founder (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

We founded the company 2012 in Paris. Today, there is way more variety of hardware on cloud provider when it was a case in 2012. And we were using a solution from Amazon AWS… We had one big issue first, which was a number of regions they were supporting were not the same vendors. So today we are a distributed team.

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Our New Transparent Pricing Dashboard: Where Your Money Goes When You Buy a Buffer Subscription

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Our hosting costs include service providers like AWS, Cloudflare, MongoDb, Twitter, etc. This means our software is hosted on the cloud and used over an internet connection via a web browser or mobile app. Merchant Fees At Buffer, we rely on Stripe, Google, and Apple for our payment processing needs. Stripe payments make up 98.5