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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

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That is excluding a single line of code or paying any salaries. At the time we viewed Amazon’s offering, EC2 as too nascent. It’s needed for Fandango, RottenTomatoes, Movies.com, Lunch.com and scores of other companies. No wonder people had to raise $5 million just to get started back then. We raised $16.5

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