Cloudability

“We'll be double, double, double. So sometime I think by the end of next year we'll be over 50.”

“About 75% of our upfront new logos are spending ahead of where they thought they were because we accelerate what they do.”

“But if you're trying to do all things to all people today, you're going to lose in every vertical. You've got to win in one vertical and then combine the winning vertical, the winning solutions. And that happens when the industry matures.”

“We're actually reducing your bill typically by 20 to 30% a year on a unit cost.”

“Well, we went through a period, we grew the business 40 times in revenue early on, and we grew the revenue the data set size ten million fold.”

“We have 11% of Amazon's revenue going through our system, and a fairly large amount of the other two big clouds going through our system.”

“So sometime in the next five years or mature, we will probably be an IPO. We can use our currency to combine or join a combined entity and go out there and just become something akin to a new version of Cisco or SAP.”

“It's about fifty-fifty right now.”

“32 in equity.”

“Inside the first year.”

“130 three quarters of us are based in Portland, Oregon.”

“We processed two exabytes of data last year.”

“The way you made technology work before was you had smart people to make it just work. That Ubuntu server wasn't going to stay working unless it's someone to keep it working. Now you buy it from Google for eight cents an hour. Now the problem is not making it …”

“Our bill personally at cloudability in February was the same as it was in April, 2015, for a business of 11 times bigger.”

“With some of those companies like Axio, we have, you know, under a thousand customers.”

“Typically it's a hundred to 250 grand ACPs.”

“We are doubling or more than doubling every year.”

“And the first three customers who signed with us in 2012 are still customers with us today.”

“I mean, I've had not with CloudAbility, but with other companies, I've had sort of the email from CE saying, hey, we've done Series A, B, C, whatever from now on, we probably won't be updating you ever, and I won't reply to your emails, kind of thing, which is…”

“I mean, the chick size was, from memory, it was like, 20, 30 k, so not much at all.”

“So I was the first first investor in Cloudability. And again, that was super interesting. Invested introduced those guys to Brad and the team at the Foundry you know, watch that investment play out over time. And then they got, got acquired by Aptio.”