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Cloud Ventures @cloudventures.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

POV in 2026: You heard every major LLM company leader say coding was going to become autonomous and you didn't build anything?

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Cloud Ventures @cloudventures.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Asked a VP of Engineering how they're handling AI adoption Their response: "We're paying our best engineers 2x to build AI tooling instead of hiring as many new grads as we used to" Don't believe me? Even giants like Microsoft and Netflix are taking this approach 👇

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Cloud Ventures @cloudventures.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

How 90% of Cloud Cost discussions go at a large organization

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Cloud Ventures @cloudventures.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

I wish you could block people on Teams

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Cloud Ventures @cloudventures.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

SF people love to make fun of non-technical people without realizing every B2B SaaS company relies on sales teams closing million-dollar deals Coding ain't paying the bills until someone sells it

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Cloud Ventures @cloudventures.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

How do you gain an edge if you're AWS or GCP? "Make them an offer they can't refuse" Turn the Cloud deal into a balance of trade partnership (AWS) OR Invest equity in the company (GCP) x.com/cloudventur...

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Cloud Ventures @cloudventures.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

If your CTO looks like this, you are not migrating to the Cloud

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Cloud Ventures @cloudventures.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Crazy how much you can grift off once being a former-VP at Amazon There's probably another 500+ other VPs at Amazon looking at him jealous he created an entire business off their personas

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Cloud Ventures @cloudventures.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

The system of record (ERP, CRM) is no longer important software and will become an archaic layer Agent solutions will be the new layer of interaction with employees Salesforce ➡️ Agentforce Microsoft ➡️ Copilot Studio SAP ➡️ Joule

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Cloud Ventures @cloudventures.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Me trying to build a vibe-coded project in one weekend

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Cloud Ventures @cloudventures.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

How to make a post go viral on 𝕏 today: 1.) I can’t believe this app is free 2.) Never deleting this app 3.) I think about this a lot

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Cloud Ventures @cloudventures.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

This is the exact persona to avoid when selling Cloud Infrastructure The “technically correct but commercially irrelevant” engineer will tank every deal x.com/zeeg/status...

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Cloud Ventures @cloudventures.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Perplexity is a good product and will become a major search engine

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Cloud Ventures @cloudventures.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

How do the AI influencers not get tired of testing every new single model that comes out every week? Like do people really even see the incremental improvement anymore?

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Cloud Ventures @cloudventures.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

When finance teams try to tell engineers how to optimize their cloud costs x.com/notch/statu...

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Cloud Ventures @cloudventures.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Microsoft's enterprise deals are now bigger than AWS in some sectors Why? Because Microsoft bundles Office + Azure + Enterprise agreements into one renewal contract that's impossible for CIOs to ignore Cloud deals are becoming one pillar of an overall company partnership

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Cloud Ventures @cloudventures.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

How my wife sees me when I talk about why Cloud Infrastructure is the most important technology right now

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Cloud Ventures @cloudventures.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

If you're paying Accenture to define your AI strategy, you're NGMI

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Cloud Ventures @cloudventures.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

🚨BREAKING: Claude discovers marketing

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Cloud Ventures @cloudventures.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Your most secure systems have one critical vulnerability: the humans who operate them. Story time: 🍿 A developer at a cybersecurity firm received what appeared to be a legitimate recruitment email from a prestigious hedge fund.

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Cloud Ventures @cloudventures.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

$20 p/m for all these different AI tools feels like when it was $6-7 for an Uber Subsidized costs to gain max market share and will inevitably raise prices

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Cloud Ventures @cloudventures.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

How one line of code can be the difference between $500k and $1m of cloud spend Erik Peterson, Founder and CTO of CloudZero, came on FinOps Weekly to host a webinar and discussion called “Million Dollar Lines of Code” Some of the key takeaways:

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Cloud Ventures @cloudventures.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Am I the only one that thinks Ask Grok and Ask Perplexity bots don't provide much more value than just searching it yourself? They frequently miss the context behind an image or post and it just feels like a waste of resources

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Cloud Ventures @cloudventures.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Theory: once you pass a certain threshold of metrics (>250 followers, post consistency, etc.) X finally starts to promote your content into the For You page Last week was the first time a post pushed past 500 views without any retweets/quote tweets

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Cloud Ventures @cloudventures.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Both my analytics and my feed supports this x.com/ElyKreimend...

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Cloud Ventures @cloudventures.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

There's a reason you can tell so many people are using AI-generated tools to write on X/LinkedIn AI has no natural voice. Even if you train it on your own content. It'll write about topics you write about, but it's very obviously not you. Don't give in and fall to it

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Cloud Ventures @cloudventures.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

The biggest life changing moment for me was switching from finance to tech. I never considered myself a technical person by background, but I became a nerd for it. I learn for the love of the game. Something that can't be forced. And it's definitely not for everyone

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Cloud Ventures @cloudventures.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

How tech twitter perceives people outside of tech twitter

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Cloud Ventures @cloudventures.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Cloud Providers in 2020 vs. Today:

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Cloud Ventures @cloudventures.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

HR is the biggest joke Applied for some roles internally, resume hadn't been reviewed in 3-4 weeks Look to message hiring manager, but only an HR contact is listed since it's a general application Is OOF for the next few days She comes back

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Cloud Ventures @cloudventures.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Why Cloud COGS is the single most important metric for the overall business health of a software company If your unit economics are broken, your business model is broken They 10x’d the price of their ChatGPT subscription from $20/month (Plus) to $200/month (Pro). Pro has:

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Cloud Ventures @cloudventures.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

If this infographic still feels confusing… you're not alone. Cloud networking costs remain one of the most misunderstood areas of cloud infrastructure. It’s no surprise companies get frustrated.

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Cloud Ventures @cloudventures.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

An under-rated topic in cloud security is zero trust. We take this for granted today with MFA But you have to assume the attacker as already penetrated the environment From there, how do you architect your network to protect and remediate the attacks instantly

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Cloud Ventures @cloudventures.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Why is it that every time I open up the X app, I just see the most intriguing post and then my For You page refreshes We need a feature to go back to that

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Cloud Ventures @cloudventures.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

If there's any one chart that backs up Dario Amodei, Kevin Scott, Sam Altman, and Amjad Masad that coding will be autonomous in the next 1-2 years, it's this one

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Cloud Ventures @cloudventures.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Society if deal desk approved the discount

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Cloud Ventures @cloudventures.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Sitting in an open workspace and I hear this product manager say she's going to be speaking at a learning session for college students on what a PM does She wanted to call it, "What the heck does a PM even do?" She's about to be the reason even more PMs are let go of

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Cloud Ventures @cloudventures.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Wall Street would hate it, but it would be a competitive advantage if cloud providers made sure every customer is optimized on their compute spend You take a short hit in revenue on Month 1 for consistent guaranteed revenue for 3 years It then creates a flywheel effect to invest more into cloud

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Cloud Ventures @cloudventures.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

FOMO drives VCs more than fear of failure Let me explain Cybersecurity founder had: – Great idea – Clear GTM – PoC – Differentiation Got rejected by 20+ VCs. “Not a real market,” they said.

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Cloud Ventures @cloudventures.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

I love doing polls on X because it's free market research to get to the consensus (or lack thereof) and real-time feedback. Why don't more startup CEOs do this?

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Cloud Ventures @cloudventures.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Prompt that got me this, "Create an image of me as a real-life action figure. Be specific as possible based on what you know about me. And put multiple interesting things that represent who I am inside the packaging. I've attached an image of me"

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Cloud Ventures @cloudventures.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

When I had worked on a Cloud deal with Snowflake, I felt this culture engrained in every single employee Frank Slootman, Former CEO of Snowflake, is one of the best CEOs of all time, no question

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Cloud Ventures @cloudventures.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Chief of Staff is just a glorified title for an executive assistant Change my mind

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Cloud Ventures @cloudventures.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

“Security is a shared responsibility” Except when there's a data breach Then it’s just the CISO's fault. Not Jim from Finance.

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Cloud Ventures @cloudventures.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

How-to on engagement bait on LinkedIn "xx topic is dead!" According to them, Software Engineering, Agile, DevOps, and now Platform Engineering are all dead

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Cloud Ventures @cloudventures.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

They actually did the thing, wow

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