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Predicting Cloud Growth Rates for 2023

Tom Tunguz

Yesterday, Google & Amazon announced earnings which completes the picture. A year ago, AWS, GCP, & Azure averaged 44% annual growth. Google: [GCP] saw slower growth of consumption as customers optimized GCP costs. Google: [We] are pushing Google Cloud to Profitability.

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From $1M to $3B ARR: Databricks CRO Ron Gabrisko on Scaling a Revenue Rocket Ship

SaaStr

His view is your sales team teaches your customers how to get value out of your product. Similar to most structures of a technical sales team. From the early days, we had a more technical sales team.” Hire early sales reps who are excellent at discovery and customer education. You gotta know the product cold.)

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A Look Back at Q1 '24 Public Cloud Software Earnings

Clouded Judgement

GCP data is a bit more noisy as they don’t disclose GCP itself, but rather Google Cloud which includes GSuite. Sales Efficiency: Gross Margin Adjusted CAC Payback Demonstrating the ability to efficiently acquire customers is the fifth aspect of a successful quarter.

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Thanks to Calendly, Drift, Reprise, Secureframe, and Shift Paradigm for Sponsoring SaaStr Annual 2022!

SaaStr

Drift brings Conversational Marketing, Conversational Sales and Conversational Service into a single platform that integrates chat, email and video and powers personalized experiences with artificial intelligence (AI) at all stages of the customer journey. appeared first on SaaStr.

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Clouded Judgement 10.11.24 - Budget Flush

Clouded Judgement

For software companies, this phenomenon can be a tailwind, as it drives accelerated deal closures and increased sales velocity, sometimes with less price sensitivity from buyers looking to quickly deplete their budgets. Where was redundant spend that could be consildated. Where was wasted spend with low ROI. Cloudflare is up 17%.

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Thanks to Demandwell, DuploCloud, Prismatic, SafeBase, and WorkOS for Sponsoring SaaStr Annual 2023!

SaaStr

DuploCloud offers an end-to-end DevOps software platform for dev teams that don’t have dedicated DevOps engineers and augments those that do. The platform automates the provisioning of your application to the cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure), integrating cloud ops, DevOps, and security/compliance with 24×7 monitoring and support.

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5 Security Changes Your Company Needs to Make to Land Enterprise Deals from Secureframe

SaaStr

As a startup, you’re doing a million things at once: building a product, answering customer tickets, developing a sales playbook, trying out different marketing hacks, and keeping the lights on. Security, besides having a password that isn’t “password123”, is probably not a major priority. . If you need a Pull Request Template, here is ours.