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From $1M to $3B ARR: Databricks CRO Ron Gabrisko on Scaling a Revenue Rocket Ship

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These early conversations helped shape Databricks product, pricing, and go-to-market strategy. Pricing: Keep It Simple (At First) Databricks started with a simple, consumption-based pricing model. Because thats how their customerswho were used to AWS, Azure, and GCP pricingexpected to buy. Talk to users. Ron recalls.

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A Look Back at Q1 '24 Public Cloud Software Earnings

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GCP data is a bit more noisy as they don’t disclose GCP itself, but rather Google Cloud which includes GSuite. Change in Share Price At the end of the day what investors care about is what happened to the stock after earnings were reported. In these situations the stock’s earnings reaction could be flat.

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Signs We've Touched the Bottom

Tom Tunguz

Both Google & Microsoft announced growth rates in GCP & Azure that held steady from one quarter to the next. There are two forces in tension : overall cost reduction efforts by companies & the desire to invest in AI. The desire for AI is broad.

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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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Clouded Judgement 11.10.23 - OpenAI Updates + Datadog Gives the All-Clear?

Clouded Judgement

When I think about the monetization of AI (and which “layers” monetize first) I’ve always thought it would follow the below order, with each layer lagging the one that comes before it. Model providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc as companies start building out AI). 2024 will be the year of AI applications!

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Clouded Judgement 5.31.24 - Software Sentiment Crumbles

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This can lead to an airpocket of valuation as companies transition to a different primary valuation metric Outside of the hypserscalers (Azure, AWS, GCP) who have uniquely benefited from AI revenue (mainly selling compute), everyone else has largely struggled. Coming in to Q1 there was broader optimism. Q4’s were generally good!

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Clouded Judgement 5.10.24 - Software Weakness Across the Board

Clouded Judgement

So far - you’re either tied to AI tailwinds, or it’s rough out there. And in the public universe, it’s really only been the hyperscalers who’ve benefited from AI.

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