OPEXEngine

DECEMBER 7, 2021

There is an appetite for usage-based pricing, and we expect this to continue to accelerate in the coming months,” says Kyle Poyar, operating partner at OpenView, a venture capital firm. It has tended to be used most in infrastructure platforms, like AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure. But that has been changing.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we talk to Alison Wagonfeld, CMO of Google Cloud. About Alison Wagonfeld and Google Cloud (01:52). Alison Wagonfeld is the Chief Marketing Officer for Google Cloud. Now, without further ado, my interview with Alison Wagonfeld, CMO of Google Cloud. We’re on iTunes. And on Stitcher.

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SaaStr

JUNE 26, 2024

MongoDB was down 23%, a great Cloud stock consistently growing in the 30s. You can see the growth on the platform side with Azure, Google, and AWS and how much it’s accelerating in AI. Monday is on its way to a billion in revenue, growing at 34%. Zscaler is growing 32% at $2.2B. B2B2B B2B2B had a rough week a couple of weeks ago.

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Outseta

AUGUST 23, 2017

Let’s start with probably the most familiar scenario - I was working at a tech company, with top tier venture capital investors. What would happen is one of the development guys would come to me and say ‘We need more cloud hosting servers, I think we should use these, can we do it?’ Where do we want to end up come year’s end?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

394: Where is Venture Capital today? I wanted to have another fun, informal conversation with, one of, I think, the most insightful and smartest cloud investors, Sunil Dhaliwal. Interesting for a couple reasons, but Sunil’s been investing in cloud internet since before almost anybody. And how do you hack it?

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Outseta

MAY 8, 2020

Perhaps best of all, the advent of cloud computing has made the barrier to entry in this field lower than ever before. There’s an awful lot of nuance here and the devil is in the details. While they may have *technically* sold something, this is pretty much a tell-tale sign that they didn’t create much of value.

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SaaStr

MAY 24, 2020

We now have 347,400 readers and subscribers to The Cloud Daily! Oracle Squares Up to AWS with Cloud Cost Calculator. Who would have thought Oracle would be driving to be #3 in the Cloud? The post Top 10 Cloud Stories of the Week appeared first on SaaStr. from SaaStr. Let’s take a look! #1.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2019

I’m a vice president at Bessemer Venture Partners, which is a venture capital firm, which was very lucky to be a part of SendGrid’s journey. A fun story is that I met Sameer about five years ago at a cloud conference. I’ve never been behind a table before so I feel very talk show hosty.

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2020

And so when you think back to what was happening, when we start back in 2010, when we were working on this idea in 2009, we just saw there’s this huge shift going on, where we were going from a world from hardware and software that you owned to services in the cloud that you rented. And I remember like AWS was growing really quickly.

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Point Nine Land

JANUARY 30, 2019

If building the infrastructure of a SaaS product seems easy nowadays (with AWS and the myriad of developer APIs available), it was not the case fifteen years ago. Providing a “cloud based” service was really challenging in terms of infrastructure, and the first SaaS startups had to hire large engineering teams dedicated to this aspect only.

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SaaStr

MAY 21, 2019

Join Bessemer Venture Partners’ Byron Deeter and Kristina Shen as they take a look at trends and predictions for the cloud industry in 2019. This marks the company’s fifth annual in-depth look at the cloud computing industry. Byron Deeter – Partner @ Bessemer Venture Partners. Just ten years ago.

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