Cloud Services
topic on 5 shows · 6 statements across 5 episodes
the Official SaaStr Podcast 
Top Founders 
the MAD Podcast 
How I Built This 
All-In
6 statements about Cloud Services, every show
Cloud Music Adoption Required Incremental Hardware Stepping Stones Like the iPod
“For example, you look now at the cloud services. They were out the same time we really got started, and it was a wonderful thing, but people could not get their heads around getting their music out of the cloud. It was, it took a lot of incremental change, lik…”
Pursuing open source and cloud SaaS simultaneously creates two distinct companies
“But the really worst thing about trying to do open source and also, of course, trying to build a cloud service, which you fundamentally need to do, we're at the SAS conference here in 2023, is that you're actually going to build two different companies, much l…”
Startups should avoid open-source unless target customers reject managed cloud services
“So I'd say that if you're starting from scratch in 2023, you should only ever consider doing both of these things at the same time. If your ICP that you just believe is really the sort of narrow set of potential customers out there that really need and want yo…”
Kimball: Cloud services are cannibalizing the open-source business model
“Open source ate the software world, and now I think cloud services are very much cannibalizing the open source business model.”
Calacanis: People will buy mini servers or rent encrypted private cloud services
“I do think you're going to see people buy mini servers to put or rent their own cloud services That are encrypted and impossible to unlock.”