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The decade software ate the world

Intercom, Inc.

The wave of SaaS companies that built themselves on the likes of AWS and Azure have reinforced the pre-eminence of cloud computing. Perhaps Game of Thrones will be remembered less for its shock twists or disappointing finale than for being the last show of its kind, the final exercise in collective televisual entertainment.

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How Top Sales Leaders are Adjusting their Sales Process (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

We can save companies $100,000 on their AWS bill. Everybody wants to save $100,000 on their AWS bill right now. We want to tell anybody that listens, you can save $100,000 on your AWS bill and demos are actually as high as they’ve ever been in late stage tech. We found something that works. Jason Lemkin: Got it.

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Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot: From Day 0 to IPO. What Went to Plan. What Most Certainly Didn’t (Video, Podcast + Transcript)

SaaStr

Jason : I’m very entertained, so keep going. I would love to say, “Oh, I wrote this software, and I put two servers on AWS, and put a credit card form up, and the money just kept flowing in.” We built out a marketing and inbound sales machine over the years. I’m going to take a deep breath. Much appreciated.

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How SaaS is Like Monty Python and 6 Other Things I Learned at SaaStock 2019

Chart Mogul

British comedy has matured a lot in the last few decades, so people now don’t have to resort to a film that’s over 40 years old for entertainment. This is already at play — services like AWS, Stripe, and others have brought down the cost of starting and running a business to a fraction of what they used to be just a decade ago.

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4/15: an Uber-important IPO

ProfitWell

News out of Disney’s Investor Day : the entertainment giant will likely offer ESPN, Hulu, and Disney+ as a bundle, making their product even more appealing in what will certainly be a Netlflix/Amazon showdown. If entertainment continues to fragment, fewer people will be able to afford multiple subscriptions. billion in the past year.

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5 Major Product Marketing Trends to Watch In 2021

OpenView Labs

Considering how short our attention span is, the use of videos to quickly inform, educate, entertain, and convert strangers to customers is pretty ideal. Examples of SaaS companies that have adopted this pricing model: HubSpot, Zocdoc, Salesforce, and AWS. It provides a seamless expansion path as customers get hooked on a product.

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AI Food Fights in the Enterprise

Andreessen Horowitz

You absolutely can have accuracy that beats the really large model, but the model you built can’t also entertain you on the weekend, answer physics questions, and help your kids do their homework. It will be like AWS, GCP, and Azure. You can train a smaller model—the latency will be faster and it’s cheaper to use later.