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5 Interesting Learnings from MongoDB at ~$2 Billion in ARR

SaaStr

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. So the growth rates of Cloud infrastructure leaders have been all over the place. Cloudflare is growing 30% at $1.6

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SaaS Rule of 40 Drivers Using KeyBanc’s 2021 SaaS Survey

SaaStr

The SaaS “Rule of 40” has gained popularity due to its simplicity, requiring only two common financial metrics to be added together. You can’t pay your Azure bill or office lease in “Rule of 40” points. And that cautious SaaS platform would fall behind their more aggressive competitors. Concluding Remarks.

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Clouded Judgement 10.20.23 - Hyperscaler Q3 Preview

Clouded Judgement

Hyperscaler Preview Next week Amazon, Microsoft and Google report earnings and we’ll see Q3 data for AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. These are thought to be the early AI winners, largely due to all of the compute they’re selling to power GenAI applications.

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Microsoft backs off facial recognition analysis, but big questions remain

IT World

Despite concerns that facial recognition technology can be discriminatory, the real issue is that results are inaccurate. The discriminatory argument plays a role, though, due to the assumptions Microsoft developers made when crafting these apps.) Let’s start with what Microsoft did and said.

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Navigating the Impact of Generative AI on Enterprise Security: Insights from Industry Experts

Andreessen Horowitz

Here’s what they had to say about the key considerations for technology adoption and strategies CISOs can employ to navigate the rise of AI-driven security solutions: 1. Secondly, companies adopting generative AI will need to rethink their technology stack. What is the biggest security threat that enterprises face today?

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16 Changes to the Way Enterprises Are Building and Buying Generative AI

Andreessen Horowitz

In the near term, leaders are still rolling out this tech and figuring out the best metrics to use to quantify returns, but over the next 2 to 3 years ROI will be increasingly important. Implementing and scaling generative AI requires the right technical talent, which currently isn’t in-house for many enterprises.

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Clouded Judgement 3.22.24 - ERR vs ARR and the Conundrum of AI Revenue Streams Today

Clouded Judgement

” Let’s look at consumption revenue - this is also not technically recurring! This is why the consumption players (Snowflake, Mongo, Confluent, Azure, AWS, etc) so more variability in the macro slowdown. The most egregious is to take truly one time revenue, “annualize” it, and call it “ARR.”

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