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Stack Overflow for Teams reached 15,000 customers, starting with Microsoft
“Microsoft was customer number one, and then we went from enterprise down to where we are today, which we've now got 15,000 Customers leveraging Stack Overflow for the teams.”
Budman: Backblaze Storage Costs One-Quarter of AWS and Google
“And so we actually introduced a, an offering where you can use storage for anything, similar to an Amazon or Google or a Microsoft offering, but one quarter of their price point.”
Nimble signs deal with Microsoft to resell CRM through Outlook VARs
“We just signed a deal with Microsoft where they became a reseller of Nimble. Microsoft has started to resell Nimble with Outlook through their VARs And they're going to gift their VARs Nimble, so that their VARs can be better, smarter, faster at sales and mark…”
Stack Overflow's first enterprise product was a private clone of its site
“The early version of the product was literally a copy of the public stack overflow, but obviously completely a private version of it, and just sort of Tested in the context of these big companies.”
LMS365 bootstrapped to $18M ARR before raising a $20M Series A
“The Series A was for twenty million. So it was actually under the premise that we have a world-class cash flow engine. When you sell to Microsoft customers, they're used to paying upfront. So that made us bootstrapped all the way up to eighteen million dollars…”
Major cloud data warehouses now offer native data clean room capabilities
“What's interesting is, is a lot of the cloud data warehouses do this, are doing this now. So AWS, GCP Microsoft are trying to do this, and that's where data sharing now happens at the cloud data layer. And then Snowflake and Databricks have capabilities around…”
Britton: Suzy's clients include P&G, J&J, Microsoft, and Coca-Cola
“Our clients are Procter & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, you know, Coca-Cola, you know, we have blue chip companies who aren't going to go away.”
Microsoft included Driscoll's open-source tool in the Visual Studio installer
“They got ahold of these guys at Microsoft, and then eventually Microsoft promoted it. Like it was, you know, on their website, and it eventually was in the installer for a little while, that kind of thing. You could actually select a feature and install my pro…”
Joost de Valk: Microsoft and The Next Web run Yoast software
“I mean, there are sites like thenextweb.com or microsoft.com that run our software, where there's hundreds of people working on that site, and it's only one site.”
iCIMS has secured enterprise customers like Microsoft, Amazon, and Intuit
“We've been signing some very large companies, you know, the Microsofts, the Amazons, the Intuits, et cetera.”