On the future of cloud services and BYOC — Jack Vanlightly
to the extent that there's a part of software that will still retain more of the economics of software, it will be integration tools that are end-product-agnostic.
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Dropbox had initially been built on Amazon’s cloud platform, and the product was growing so fast that the hosting bills had become very expensive.
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Lower gross margins due to heavy cloud infrastructure usage and ongoing human support;
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a company only pays for the capacity it uses when it uses it.