> The combination of huge amounts of venture funding, a quickly growing competitive landscape, and the looming shadow of cloud industry giants all wanting a pie

> The combination of huge amounts of venture funding, a quickly growing competitive landscape, and the looming shadow of cloud industry giants all wanting a piece of the pie created a pressure cooker environment for the young company to operate within. I actually got an AWS ad on the same page while reading this comment. It's definitely hard to compete when your competitors(with lot of capital) can easily integrate your tech into theirs in no time.