With AI driving the next wave of innovation, having reliable, scalable, and cost-efficient infrastructure is more crucial than ever. We’re excited to hear from Tuhin Srivastava, Founder @ Baseten on powering the next generation of AI-native products with performant, reliable, and scalable inference infrastructure. You won't want to miss it! Register now 👉 https://lu.ma/v35t9ppf
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We built billing so you don't have to. Orb is the first fully extensible billing engine for B2B pricing use cases.
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Is AI shaking up how we think about SaaS pricing? In a recent Forbes article, Alvaro Morales, CEO of Orb, discusses this industry shake-up and argues that traditional pricing models may fall short as AI reshapes productivity and usage patterns. Full article here: https://mnlo.vc/forbes-orb
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Orb and Baseten are coming together to bring you: AI’s Hard Economics for Good Times 📣 AI is booming, but balancing innovation with smart decisions and strategic investments is key to keep the good times rolling. Hear from our technical panel focused on layers of the AI stack, featuring: Tuhin Srivastava (Founder @ Baseten) Kshitij Grover (Founder @ Orb) Joshua Ma (Head of AI @ Airtable) Evan Conrad (Founder @ SF Compute). Moderated by Corinne Marie Riley (Greylock) Look forward to apps, drinks, and a good time 🍻 Register now: https://lu.ma/v35t9ppf
AI's Hard Economics for Good Times - presented by Baseten & Orb · Luma
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Another episode of #Build vs #Buy podcast just dropped! This week I speak with Kshitij Grover, CTO at Orb. We discuss how billing is a critical part of every business but almost never adds customer value and most certainly doesn't delight customers. So why do some #SaaS companies have entire product teams dedicated to building out billing? Some challenges with self-rolling billing infrastructure include: 1. 🛠 It's a lot of work to build and maintain 2. 💸 Lack of flexibility for price testing 3. 🙅♂️ Nobody wants to work on it 4. 🍺 Doesn't "make your beer taste better" - Jeff Bezos Linky links below: youtube: https://lnkd.in/g2XfqiXf spotify: https://lnkd.in/gSrAg54D apple: https://lnkd.in/gn8n3KpW P.S. Kshitij is probably one of the most articulate individuals I have ever spoken with. I really enjoyed the conversation. P.P.S Special shout out to Schaeffer Arnold for editing out the part where my wife pokes her head into the frame and my daughter starts screaming. 😂
Kshitij Grover, Co-Founder & CTO at Orb
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I sat down with Kshitij Grover on the Orb podcast to talk through how Cloudflare Emerging Tech and Incubation team runs. I have loved working with a team that builds products from the bottom up, shares them for free, and iterates. We take a lot of big shots, and failure is ok. At the end of the day, our goal is inventing the future of the Internet. And thanks, Kshitij, for the chat! https://lnkd.in/g3kWkgfw
Orb | In conversation with Dane Knecht, SVP at Cloudflare
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Following the launch of Orb’s financial reporting module, the team has been hard at work making enhancements that are sure to delight finance and accounting teams. Product updates include new features to streamline the revenue accounting process, improve invoice clarity, and enable more granular revenue analysis and forecasting. Catch the latest here: https://lnkd.in/gnyFzehH
Orb | New in the Orbit: product updates from June and July
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Orb is, without a doubt, entirely a team venture. And we’re looking for ambitious people to join us. I often think about when the Orb team went to Sausalito for a team offsite. We drifted around the Bay. It was perfect. We sailed for hours and went at a few dozen miles. And, honestly? We learned way more about each other in those hours than we had in the last 2 months. It sounds cliche, but sailing’s a great metaphor for teamwork. Every role on the boat is important and you absolutely need to work together, or else you’ll get soaked. We’re all very different people from different backgrounds with different talents, but that only added to the camaraderie of the day. And that’s a good way to view Orb: you can be yourself here. Sound interesting? Take a look at our site. Shoot us a message and let’s see what floats.
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Yesterday, Arsh Khandelwal and I talked at LinkedIn HQ about Orb's technical investment around Orb's alerting features at the scale of 1M+ events/sec. This is an incredibly important feature for Orb's customers to provide timely notifications to *their* customers on hitting a spend cap or usage limit → your customers don't like surprise overages, you don't want to swallow spillover infra costs for excess use. What makes implementing real-time alerting for billing hard? Why isn't this a solved problem a la Datadog? A preview of what's tricky: - Flexibility: Orb is the only billing system that lets you configure your billing metrics with SQL. This makes computing incremental query results significantly harder; traditional stream processing approaches don't work out of the box. Approximates aren't good enough... and remember that the number of groups explodes here quickly since each customer on each timezone has a different timeframe you're evaluating. - Business complexity: usually, your customers want to get alerted on accrued spend across all metrics they're subscribed to. You'll need to factor in a combination of credit burndown for some metrics, rollovers, minimums, tiered pricing, etc. This is a lot of domain data to load in a perf-critical path. Billing doesn't operate on a single p x q anymore. - Varying requirements: You might want to alert on a subset of self-serve, high risk customers with a much higher SLO than your trusted enterprise accounts. Being able to fast-lane some customers is critical.
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Next, we have Evan Kiser, who joined Orb on the Customer Experience Engineering team in March. Here's what Evan shared on why he joined Orb. "I am thrilled to be a member of the team at Orb, where we're building products to help businesses evolve their billing and monetization strategies. As part of the customer experience team, I am incredibly excited to help develop a world-class customer support operation, guiding customers from initial implementation throughout their journey with Orb. Orb's product is used by leaders in finance, sales, and engineering, and getting to interact with and assist these diverse stakeholders is both exciting and rewarding. Our team at Orb is exceptionally talented, and I am eager to see what we will accomplish together." We're hiring! Check out our open roles here: https://lnkd.in/d46pzxJY
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