YellowDog bills customers based purely on managed core hours
Simon Ponsford · Buy Rendering Power with YellowDog, $1.8m ARR, $12.5m Valuation · Oct 23, 2021 · at 1:44
Simon Ponsford, CEO of YellowDog, explains the pricing and licensing architecture for his cloud compute orchestration platform to Nathan Latka.
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“The sales model is all, is, is all about licensing. So it's all about number of core hours that people use that we effectively manage for them.”
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