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A Twist in the Tale: Microsoft's Strategic Partnership with OpenAI

In a twist of partnership strategy, Microsoft has announced 🔎Bing as the default search engine in OpenAI's Chat GPT. Remember, it was...

How the growth of 3rd party marketplaces in cloud repeats the same pattern in e-commerce

The growth of 3rd party #marketplaces in #cloud repeats the same pattern in e-commerce. The impact in e-commerce has been significant -...

In 3 years ALL major cloud platforms and enterprise application providers will offer marketplaces

In 3 years Gartner expects that 📢 ALL major #cloud #platform (think AWS, Red Hat, etc.) and enterprise application providers (Workday,...

Marketplaces were among the top 3 💰 funded categories in 2022, even after VC funding drained

#Marketplaces were among the top 3 💰 funded categories last year, even after VC funding drained. They significantly outperformed Nasdaq...

Cloud market ☁️ breakdown from infrastructure to products/services, all the way to the end customers

Nearly $600B ☁️ cloud market is largely built with partnerships as building blocks.. Here is a quick breakdown from infrastructure to...

CrowdStrike's partnership playbook. Why a top 10 SaaS platform is a partner-first company.

CrowdStrike is a disruptor 🗽 in the cybersecurity industry, the 2nd fastest SaaS company that reached $2bn ARR. It’s also a...

Box's (BOX ) partnerships playbook: from 0 to 1500+ partners

Today Box (BOX) is ~ $1Bn ARR, where ~ 40% of New ARR 🏆 comes in-directly via partners. But let’s look at how they started...

#5️⃣ from our 7 key partner insights in 2022 - becoming a #platform is among top aspirations in SaaS

🛠️ Becoming a #platform is among top aspirations in SaaS. But what should be true to become another Slack, Shopify or HubSpot? Companies...

#7️⃣ of 7 partner insights in 2022 - partnerships while difficult, are scaling up regardless

🎯 7 partner insights in 2022 - a brief summary of key trends from a busy year. 7️⃣ #Partnerships while difficult, are scaling up...

Fintech unicorns grew 11X growth in 5 yrs

To put things in perspective, there were 274+ #fintech unicorns in Sept 2022, up from 25 in 2017. 🔎 11X growth in 5 yrs, even after tech...