Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

I’m watching public company earnings to identify early trends in the software market to inform startups’ plans for 2023. The surge in pipeline is notable given the uncertainty in the market but the close rates are low & sales cycles slow : another confirmatory data point for startups to plan cautiously in 2023.

Cloud 243

Cloud Azure Headcount Software Review 243

Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 21, 2024

Generative AI took the consumer landscape by storm in 2023, reaching over a billion dollars of consumer spend 1 in record time. In 2023, the average spend across foundation model APIs, self-hosting, and fine-tuning models was $7M across the dozens of companies we spoke to. Budgets for generative AI are skyrocketing.

Generative AI 145

Generative AI Enterprise AI Artificial Intelligence 145

Clouded Judgement

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

If you don’t want to manage all of the infrastructure around Iceberg (plus allocating headcount to do this!) Typical data lake storage solutions include AWS S3, Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS), Google Cloud Storage (GCS) or Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). Iceberg is one ingredient in the fully packaged Tabular lakehouse.

Data 130

Data Government Scale GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 130

SaaStr

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Google Cloud , Azure, and GitLab, all tied directly or indirectly to AI, are seeing massive acceleration. But Google Cloud, Azure, and GitLab are all benefiting and on fire. We’ve been taught unicorn math to grow headcount faster than revenue, and maybe if you’re venture-backed, you can do it. Is there a bubble? Does it matter?

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Sales Hiring Scale AI SaaS 321