75% of new Cloudability customers outpace their contract spending schedules
Matt Ellis · 1215 Cloudability CEO: We're Past $20m in ARR, 11% of Total AWS Spend · Nov 21, 2018 · at 17:41
Cloudability CEO Matt Ellis explains customer contract expansion and usage acceleration to Nathan Latka.
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“About 75% of our upfront new logos are spending ahead of where they thought they were because we accelerate what they do.”
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