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.

Azure 276

Azure Technical Review Scale AI 276

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?

AI Search 287

AI Search AI Artificial Intelligence Scale 287

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.

AWS 330

AWS Azure Cloud Scale 330

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.

Scale 64

Scale VP of Engineering Outsourcing Services Enterprise 64

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.

Cloud 318

Cloud GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Software Azure 318

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.

Merchant Services 307

Merchant Services Azure Software AWS 307

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.

Azure 98

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?

Scale 98

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%.

SaaS 317

SaaS Technical Review Benchmarks Azure 317

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.

Cost optimization & reporting 157

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

Cost optimization & reporting 167

Cost optimization & reporting Cloud Azure AWS 167

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.

Sales Hiring 232

Sales Hiring Scale Payments Cloud 232

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

Cloud 157

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.

Data Analysis 128

Data Analysis Software Data Scale 128

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.

Cloud 184

Cloud Software Azure AWS 184

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.

Scale 81

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 81

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?

AI 190

AI Cloud Revenue Technical Advisors 190

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.

Generative AI 145

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.

Cybersecurity 122

Cybersecurity Sales Hiring Scale Cloud 122

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.

ECS (Elastic Container Service) 97

ECS (Elastic Container Service) multi-cloud Kubernetes K8S orchestration (Kubernetes) EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) 97

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.

CTO Hire 144

CTO Hire AI Venture Capital Sales Hiring 144

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.

Management 105

Management Azure SaaS Systems Review 105

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.

Investment 118

Investment Cybersecurity Azure Cloud 118

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.

Well Architected Framework 130

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

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.

SaaS Payments 104

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payment Services Payment Solutions 104

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?

Data 130

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.

Cloud 167

Cloud Software Benchmarks Scale 167

Stax

APRIL 17, 2025

As these ecosystems evolve, ISV partnerships have become essential for companies looking to scale, reach new markets, and offer integrated ISV solutions. Software vendors recommend a platform to their customers (or vice versa), and earn revenue for each successful referral or sale.

Merchant Services 88

Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services Payments 88

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.

Mobile 130

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.

Marketplace as a Service 52

Marketplace as a Service Cloud Scale VP of Engineering 52

IT World

APRIL 8, 2020

VMware has pumped out a key version of its core networking software with over 100 new features and added security and application-management support all designed to help customers build and run large scale virtual networks. To read this article in full, please click here

Azure 52

Azure Software Scale Management 52

Sales Hacker

MARCH 10, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Nicole Wojno Smith , the VP of Marketing at Tackle.io. She also founded and leads the Atlanta Chapter of Revenue Collective. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Welcome to the Sales Hacker Podcast. What You’ll Learn. We’re on iTunes. And on Stitcher.

Sales Hiring 85

Sales Hiring Scale Marketing AWS 85

Neil Patel

DECEMBER 24, 2020

If your website is down, you can’t make sales, and you could quickly lose customers to the competition. Special events like Black Friday sales or the holiday season come to mind. UptimeRobot offers reliable website monitoring tools and will easily scale with your business as it grows. Uptime Monitoring. Load Testing.

DevOps as a Service 145

DevOps as a Service Software Review GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Systems Review 145

Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The Mosaic guys just figured out how to do that at scale for others. Ali: There’s a scaling law. If you’re scaling the parameters up, you have to scale the data with it. If you don’t have that, you’re not going to get the bang for the buck from scaling. It will be like AWS, GCP, and Azure.

Enterprise 110

Enterprise AI Artificial Intelligence Generative AI 110

OpenView Labs

JANUARY 24, 2022

Every year Tackle surveys sellers and buyers at software companies across the spectrum—from less than $10M to over $1 billion in ARR, across multiple industries, and in roles like alliances/partnerships, sales, operations, product/development, finance, marketing, IT, and more.

Marketplace as a Service 77

Marketplace as a Service Cloud Trends Software 77