Legacy Vendors
topic on 2 shows · 3 statements across 3 episodes
the Official SaaStr Podcast 
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3 statements about Legacy Vendors, every show
Cloud macro battle will result in fatalities among legacy tech vendors
“And so there's this macro battle of risk going on with the legacy vendors, and there will be some fatalities there, but it's enabling the infrastructure service layer that now the pure place can continue to benefit from.”
Deeter: Cloud acquisitions exceeded $90B in 2018 as legacy vendors bought in
“If we think back on 2018 alone, over ninety billion dollars of acquisition activity as the legacy vendors tried to buy their way into this space to catch up with the wave that, ah, the innovators have been leading.”
Svane: B2B startups can disrupt legacy vendors via consumer-oriented CIOs
“Everybody here who has a B to B startup, it's, there's a huge opportunity right now because a lot of the established vendors are lacking tremendously behind. You have a whole new generation of much more consumer-friendly, consumer-oriented CIOs and executives …”