SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2022

Jason recently opened up an AMA on Twitter Spaces to answer questions about scaling and VC funding. While Azure and Google Cloud grew at record rates, Shopify for example, its SaaS business only grew 10% last quarter. We need this money to get sales and marketing going. Jason Lemkin: Today certainly is an interesting week.

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Scale SaaS Payments Scaling SaaS 245

SaaStr

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Many have used Digital Ocean at the cheaper, simpler version of AWS-Azure-Digital Ocean to get going fast and quickly. Or at least, maybe like many, tougher times meant holding the line on costs and people, leading to even more efficiency. But at scale, even the slightly less long version of the tail is where the money is.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Billion in ARR GitLab is growing 30% at $730m ARR Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud are on fire, fueled by AI But others are seeing more headwinds due to downturns in the “B2B2B” segment of tech. New Customer Count Still Up +12% to 50,700 So Mongo’s challenge isn’t that it isn’t bringing in new customers at scale.

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Azure Technical Review Scale AI 270

SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

As SaaStr Europa 2022 drew to a close, attendees took one more opportunity to ask Jason questions about topics like how to navigate the current market, the future of work, playing in a crowded space, and hiring your first VP of Sales. It was funny for Henry to say he segmented his sales team at 80 million in ARR. Transcript.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 1, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Hayden Stafford is the President and Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) at Seismic, where he oversees the global go-to-market (GTM) organization, including pre-sales, sales, customer success, services, partners, and more. The other thing is just.

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SaaStr

APRIL 26, 2024

At Glasswing Ventures, they tell their AI-native companies not to lead with AI because it’s such a superficial indication of interest. When you take the data, you may have a business goal of making more sales or delighting the customer. What should founders know about the modern AI stack that Enterprises can scale on?

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AI Search AI Artificial Intelligence Scale 281

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The budgets are >still< there, but they're harder to access, so sales needs to understand what your buyer's true goals are for next year and align with it. A similar story with arguably the #1 public leader in next-generation sales tools. So a great one to look at if you sell into sales.

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Clouded Judgement

JUNE 19, 2024

It’s worth pointing out that Azure is a bit above the long term trendline, while AWS is still below (but accelerating up). It’s worth pointing out that Azure is a bit above the long term trendline, while AWS is still below (but accelerating up). The graph below shows the median net retention going back to 2020.

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Cloud GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Software Azure 318

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 31, 2019

The most triumphant transfer of control from an original generation leader to a new CEO was surely that of Microsoft, which pivoted from chasing after Apple’s success in the consumer space under Steve Ballmer (don’t mention Nokia ) to successfully focusing on the cloud under Satya Nadella (please do mention Azure). The scale is extraordinary.

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Payment Solutions Payment Methods Software SaaS Payments 259

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

If you’re selling sales and marketing software, like Zoominfo, it can seem a lot tougher than 12-18 months ago. Growth in public cloud services (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Snowflake, etc.) If you’re selling cloud infrastructure, for the most part, growth may be down a smidge but is still strong, e.g., MongoDB.

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Merchant Services Azure Software AWS 300

Nimble - Sales

MAY 22, 2019

Nimble has migrated its market-leading SaaS CRM from Amazon Web Services (AWS) to Microsoft Azure. The migration enables Nimble to tap into Microsoft’s world-class Azure platform and partner ecosystem to scale.

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Azure Scale AWS Management 98

OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Since you aren’t limiting the number of users who can access your software, your customers are able to find new use cases—which leads to more long-term success and higher lifetime value. It requires shifts in go-to-market strategy, sales compensation, financial planning, billing, and much more. Ready to scale to $100+ million ARR?

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Scale Pricing Scaling AWS 98

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

” Year after year of lower sales and marketing costs and better customer retention really adds up. To compare the year 1 (meaning 12 months) investment in sales & marketing, we take 12 “cost” months divided by 20.8 “revenue” months, which yields a revenue growth:cost ratio of 0.57%.

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SaaS Technical Review Benchmarks Azure 311

Clouded Judgement

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Subscribe now Cloud Giants Report Q3 ‘23 Not a great signal for software this week from the Cloud Giants (AWS, Azure and Google Cloud)…After Q2 (3 months ago), the tone from the Cloud Giants around optimizations was largely: optimizations have started to ease, and net new workloads have picked up. Staggering scale already.

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Cost optimization & reporting Cloud Azure AWS 157

Clouded Judgement

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

” Microsoft on Azure : “And I think last quarter, we said one, we are going to continue to have these cycles where people will build new workloads. The hyperscalers benefit from massive scale, distribution, trust and depth of customer relationships in ways no other software companies do. Overall Stats: Overall Median: 6.0x

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Cost optimization & reporting Cloud Azure AWS 167

SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2019

We'll be taking over the entire San Jose convention center and surrounding areas just for attendees, delivering even more tactical content and advice on scaling than ever before, and more importantly, help you connect with 15,000 of your fellow SaaS Founders, Investors and Leaders in 2020! SaaStr Annual 2020 Tickets Go Up $500 at Midnight!

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Cloud Azure Scale Software Engineering 141

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

If we look at that and step back, you can think of this, again, from the leading perspective of the public’s first, which is this evolution over time. Even at spectacular scale, they’re still growing at 30%. Azure has been gaining on them rapidly and is growing a double that rate. They had to reinvent themselves.

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Sales Hiring Scale Payments Cloud 229

Clouded Judgement

APRIL 11, 2024

It looks at the YoY dollar change in quarterly revenue from the hyperscalers (just looking at Azure / AWS because the data goes back further) going back a few years. If we break this down and look at Azure and AWS independently (graphs below), you’ll see how the AWS “swings” were a lot more volatile.

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Cloud Software Azure AWS 184

Clouded Judgement

AUGUST 2, 2024

Cloud Giants Report Q2 We also got the Q2 quarters from AWS / Azure / GCP this week! ” Then Microsoft said this: “To meet the growing demand signal for our AI and Cloud products, we will scale our infrastructure investments with FY '25 capital expenditures expected to be higher than FY '24. Top 5 Median: 14.4x

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Cloud Azure GCP(Google Cloud Platform) AWS 157

Neil Patel

JANUARY 25, 2021

But here are a few other factors you should look out for when evaluating a prospective software. These tools should help you understand your business in more detail, including important metrics, inventory, and sales numbers. Whether it’s real-time analytics data streaming or offering insights at scale, this tool can do it all.

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Data Analysis Software Data Scale 128

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 8, 2018

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Chris Degnan , Chief Revenue Officer of Snowflake Computing, one of the fastest growing SaaS platforms in the world. At Snowflake, he was the first rep and single-handedly built the outbound-engine on the way to scaling the business from pre-revenue all the way past $150M+ in ARR.

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Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 83

Clouded Judgement

MARCH 22, 2024

This is why the consumption players (Snowflake, Mongo, Confluent, Azure, AWS, etc) so more variability in the macro slowdown. This brings me to AI (everything leads to AI these days…). But this is changing - many categories are becoming commoditized leading to massive pricing pressure. Do you have ARR or ERR?

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 21, 2024

Some naysayers doubted that genAI could scale into the enterprise at all. On a much smaller scale, we’ve also started to see some leaders deploying their genAI budget against headcount savings, particularly in customer service. Simply having an API to a model provider isn’t enough to build and deploy generative AI solutions at scale.

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Generative AI Enterprise AI Artificial Intelligence 145

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 9, 2021

This larger percentage of investment in early-stage funding rounds signals an industry ripe with growth potential and sales opportunities. TL;DR: Early-stage cybersecurity venture funding = new sales opportunities for you. Orca Security provides security and compliance for Amazon Web Services , Azure , and Google Cloud Platform.

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Cybersecurity Sales Hiring Scale Cloud 123

Frontegg

JUNE 17, 2021

As explained in the first part of this series, we clearly saw why Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is the way to go when it comes to establishing self-serving applications that can be scaled up and developed fast(er). Scale up (or down) fast Better Latency – Access points all around the world for better performance.

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SaaStr

JUNE 26, 2024

Even though HubSpot grew 23% at $2.5B, there was weaker demand and longer sales cycles, and they had to do pilots with CEOs and CIOs. You can see the growth on the platform side with Azure, Google, and AWS and how much it’s accelerating in AI. Or Scale AI securing $1B. Being AI doesn’t necessarily lead to riches.

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CTO Hire AI Venture Capital Sales Hiring 141

Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 7, 2024

While their growth at this scale is breathtaking, it’s not surprising. We’re thrilled to partner with Wiz in co-leading their newest round of financing and to support the company as they help businesses around the world secure increasingly complex cloud environments. Even among an impressive set of cyber predecessors, Wiz stands out.

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Investment Cybersecurity Azure Cloud 118

User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

Userpilot is a leading B2B product growth tool that excels at in-app engagement , product analytics, customer feedback collection, customer support, and integrations. It’s suitable for businesses wanting control over their infrastructure and the ability to scale. Frequent issues can lead to significant disruptions in service.

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payment Services Payment Solutions 104

User Pilot

MARCH 12, 2024

Similarly, poor encryption or authentication methods may lead to unauthorized data access. Your goal here is to ensure there are no security vulnerabilities or performance issues as the system scales. Automate your workflow to save time Manual user provisioning is a time-consuming, error-prone process that can lead to security gaps.

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Management Azure SaaS Systems Review 105

CloudGeometry

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

It is the secret to effective tiering and scaling. Given the speed and intensity of competition in this market, it’s essential to SaaS success at any scale — and at any point on the lifecycle of your SaaS product offering. Let’s take a closer look at what that means and how it works.

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Well Architected Framework SaaS AWS Construction 130

Baremetrics

JULY 8, 2021

This allows their team to focus on product, sales, and customer success while staying lean. MetricFire is a full-scale platform that offers infrastructure, system, and application monitoring using a suite of open-source monitoring tools. Stripe is the leading payment processing service for SaaS and subscription businesses.

Payment Services 105

Payment Services Payment Solutions Payments SaaS Payments 105

Clouded Judgement

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

If you want features in your lakehouse (on top of open source Iceberg) for ingestion, CDC, streaming (file loading, Kafka connect, etc), schema evolution, compaction, optimization, time travel, snapshots, auto-scaling, maintenance (no more writing spark jobs to delete snapshots!), A natural question is “why do we have two tiers?

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Data Government Scale GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 130

Neil Patel

JANUARY 21, 2021

Landing pages have a significant role in improving conversion rates, and it’s key to helping you score more sales leads through your digital marketing efforts. You can match prospective plugins to the above categories. Data tracking is crucial for scaling and improving your website. Conclusion.

Payment Methods 145

Payment Methods Software Review Scale Payments 145

Clouded Judgement

JUNE 20, 2023

The real headwinds to software (tougher expansion, longer sales cycles / procurement, slower new business, budget crunches / RIFs, etc) started last August. But what we’re really looking for is budgets expanding, shortening sales cycles, less pressure on expansion, etc. This makes it an “easier” comp.

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Cloud Software Benchmarks Scale 167

SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

Justin Bedecarre: And then another client of ours is an international company that has decided that they truly want to scale up in San Francisco. We don’t know when we’re going to be able to get safely back at scale. I need like sales, procurement, collaboration. Some of them are like a wait and see approach, right?

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Sales Recruiting Cloud CTO Hire Sales Hiring 207

Neil Patel

JANUARY 7, 2022

A slow website can lead to: shopping cart abandonment lost conversions dissatisfied customers damage to your brand’s reputation lower ranking in the SERPs. Popular CDN’s include: Rackspace, Amazon CloudFront, and Microsoft Azure. Website performance can be measured by the number of server errors, and the size of downloaded web pages.

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Mobile Azure Scale User Experience 130

OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Cloud marketplaces like AWS Marketplace, Azure Marketplace and Google Cloud Platform Marketplace are digital storefronts where companies can list their offerings for software buyers to find, purchase and provision software. . When it comes to the sales process, cloud marketplaces have clear benefits.

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Marketplace as a Service Cloud Scale VP of Engineering 52