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Mat Ellis

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
221 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1215 Cloudability CEO: We're Past $20m in ARR, 11% of Total AWS Spend

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

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1215 Cloudability CEO: We're Past $20m in ARR, 11% of Total AWS Spend

Our bill's personal accountability in February was the same as it was in April 2015 for businesses 11 times bigger.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1215 Cloudability CEO: We're Past $20m in ARR, 11% of Total AWS Spend

So in that mode, we have to charge you a bit more like regular software, and it's based on the kind of modules that you're using.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1215 Cloudability CEO: We're Past $20m in ARR, 11% of Total AWS Spend

Yeah, we sign annual contracts.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1215 Cloudability CEO: We're Past $20m in ARR, 11% of Total AWS Spend

Generally, we put a package together for you based on whether you're just reporting or whether you're reporting and you're optimizing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1215 Cloudability CEO: We're Past $20m in ARR, 11% of Total AWS Spend

And typically it's a hundred to 250 grand ACP.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1215 Cloudability CEO: We're Past $20m in ARR, 11% of Total AWS Spend

It's a sweet spot.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1215 Cloudability CEO: We're Past $20m in ARR, 11% of Total AWS Spend

Well, I spent 10 years in big data.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1215 Cloudability CEO: We're Past $20m in ARR, 11% of Total AWS Spend

I followed my wife out to Oregon, which is where she grew up.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1215 Cloudability CEO: We're Past $20m in ARR, 11% of Total AWS Spend

And I had no job.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1215 Cloudability CEO: We're Past $20m in ARR, 11% of Total AWS Spend

It's middle of the recession.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1215 Cloudability CEO: We're Past $20m in ARR, 11% of Total AWS Spend

I had 10 ideas to go follow, all in big data.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1215 Cloudability CEO: We're Past $20m in ARR, 11% of Total AWS Spend

And two months in... And what year was this?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1215 Cloudability CEO: We're Past $20m in ARR, 11% of Total AWS Spend

It was 2010.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1215 Cloudability CEO: We're Past $20m in ARR, 11% of Total AWS Spend

And two months in, I'm in hospital.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1215 Cloudability CEO: We're Past $20m in ARR, 11% of Total AWS Spend

Two emergency surgeries.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1215 Cloudability CEO: We're Past $20m in ARR, 11% of Total AWS Spend

No healthcare because it's Obamacare.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1215 Cloudability CEO: We're Past $20m in ARR, 11% of Total AWS Spend

Very large healthcare bills.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1215 Cloudability CEO: We're Past $20m in ARR, 11% of Total AWS Spend

And I needed to get back on my feet and get back to being liquid.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1215 Cloudability CEO: We're Past $20m in ARR, 11% of Total AWS Spend

I called around a few buddies who were moving to cloud.