SaaStr

AUGUST 8, 2023

The Accounting Team Responsibilities: Financial recording and reporting Compliance, Audits Accounts Payable/Accounts Receivable Tax, Treasury Your accounting team makes sure every financial transaction is recorded correctly and categorized. Cost Optimization Identify and implement strategies to improve margins.

Scale 239

Scale Finance Outsourcing Services Sales Recruiting 239

Clouded Judgement

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Subscribe now Cloud Giants Report Q4 ‘23 Two quotes from the Amazon and Microsoft earnings call really stood out to me this week. Similar to what we shared last quarter, we continue to see the diminishing impact of cost optimizations. Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies.

Cost optimization & reporting 167

Cost optimization & reporting Cloud Azure AWS 167

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.

Cost optimization & reporting 157

Cost optimization & reporting Cloud Azure AWS 157

Clouded Judgement

JUNE 19, 2024

The 62 companies that I’ll discuss here (which is not an exhaustive list, but is still comprehensive) all reported quarterly earnings sometime between April 24th – June 10th. These charts clearly show the ZIRP pull forward, the ensuing cloud cost optimizations, and then the recovery.

Cloud 318

Cloud GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Software Azure 318

Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 21, 2025

After a decade of expanding complexity in the modern data stack, companies are dramatically simplifying their architectures - and getting better results Second, we’re seeing a renaissance of scale-up computing. Content: I use my MacBook Pro to run 70 billion parameter models, which are equivalent to GPT 3.5 at 450 billion parameters.

Data 100

Data AI Search Scale Government 100

BetterCloud

MARCH 5, 2025

Lets dive into how to navigate the complexities of SaaS vendor management, focusing on cost optimization and risk mitigation to benefit both your IT systems and your financial health. For example, your sales and marketing teams may be subscribed to different business proposal tools. What is SaaS vendor management?

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Software Review Development Team Review Systems Review 52