#27: Atlassian Mafia Part 2 - The Competitive Dynamics in SaaS from The Razor’s Edge

#27: Atlassian Mafia Part 2 - The Competitive Dynamics in SaaS

1 hour 1 minutes Posted Oct 6, 2020 at 8:00 am.

minute mark The onset of competition - Asana for Atlassian, Microsoft for Twilio, and writ large

The market's roving eye, excitement over IPOs or hot tickets vs. steady growing behemoths - Zoom vs. Cisco, Snowflake vs. Box vs. Salesforce, and the ongoing runroom for cloud growth and small/mid-caps like PagerDuty

The value of having multiple revenue streams, and the importance of Rundeck to PagerDuty as a first step

Microsoft's power move and Zoom's taking advantage of their position

The commitment to your cloud stack for a decade, and the challenge for incumbents of diversifying - Hipchat vs. Slack and Bitbucket vs. GitHub

Data Center redundancy and setting up your network

Snowflake dive, and the echo with VMWare; its competitive position vs. Redshift, Teradata, etc.

COVID-19 Status update around the world

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We continue our discussion with Jens Schumacher and Justen Stepka, long-time Atlassian vets who have seen the software sector inside and out. We take a broader focus in this discussion, looking at SaaS competition, the importance of integrated cloud stacks, and the broader COVID and macro set-up. This leads to us diving in on Atlassian, on PagerDuty, on Zoom, and on Snowflake, among other topics.

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