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A Founder’s Guide to Building and Scaling Marketing Channels: Lessons from Datadog’s CMO and First Marketing Hire

SaaStr

.” – Alex Rosenblatt The Channel-First Approach That Actually Works Instead of the everything-at-once approach, Rosenblatt advocates for a methodical, data-driven methodology: 1. At Datadog, their first focus was sponsored trade shows – specifically targeting the AWS ecosystem.

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Clouded Judgement 12.1.23 - Net New ARR Starts to Rebound + AWS ReInvent Recap

Clouded Judgement

Subscribe now Amazon ReInvent This week Amazon had their annual AWS ReInvent conference. ” AWS fully embracing the breadth over depth approach. General purpose GenAI tools dominate the market today, but the tooling layer is starting to emerge to allow enterprises to fine tune models to their specific data.

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Search at Intercom: Building our Elasticsearch cloud on AWS

Intercom, Inc.

For this reason, we chose to run exclusively on AWS and wherever possible, we make use of battle-tested AWS services, be it RDS Aurora for our relational databases, the Simple Queue Service (SQS) for our async workers or ElastiCache for our caching layer. Core part of Intercom. Search is an indispensable part of Intercom.

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How Generative AI Will Turn Traditional SaaS Models On Their Head with AWS VP of Generative Builders Adam Seligman

SaaStr

Within the next 12 months, Adam Seligman, VP of Generative Builders at AWS, believes there will be an inversion of SaaS. They want one that fits their unique needs and integrates with their data sources and third-party things. Could you write down the core features, data model, and primary functionality the app should have?

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Cloud Data Lakes - The Future of Large Scale Data Analysis

Tom Tunguz

Cloud Data Lakes are a trend we’ve been excited about for a long time at Redpoint. This modern architecture for data analysis, operational metrics, and machine learning enables companies to process data in new ways. We’re all storing data at increasing rates because every team inside a company needs data to succeed.

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Are You Really On The IPO Track? If Not, Maybe Don’t Unicorn

SaaStr

Take a look here at the lastest data from Carta on the Unicorn Class of 2021: You can see 61% werent able to raise another round. Thats $500m ARR growing 50%. Thats what all the last 5 SaaS IPOs, all the SaaS IPOs since 2021 in fact, were doing at IPO: Rubrik, Klaviyo, ServiceTitan, OneStream and Sailpoint.

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Session Registration Open for SaaStr Build 2022: Sign Up to Hear HubSpot’s GM, Amplitude’s CEO, AWS’ Head of Customer Success and CircleCI’s CEO

SaaStr

Why Customer Success and Product Should be Best Friends: Lessons Learned with AWS’ Head of Customer Success Harini Gokul. The post Session Registration Open for SaaStr Build 2022: Sign Up to Hear HubSpot’s GM, Amplitude’s CEO, AWS’ Head of Customer Success and CircleCI’s CEO appeared first on SaaStr.

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