How to predict and control your AI SaaS cloud spend with Ed Barrow @Cloud Capital

saas.unbound is a podcast for and about founders who are working on scaling inspiring products that people love, brought to you by https://saas.group/ , a serial acquirer of B2B SaaS companies. In episode #4 of season 6, Anna nadeina talks with Edward Barrow, Co-Founder & CEO @ Cloud Capital, a Cloud Cost Management platform helping finance (CFOs) and engineering teams control, forecast, and optimize cloud spending, especially on AWS, by bridging financial and technical visibility. ----------- Episode's Chapters ----------- 1:37 — Ed's Journey: From Bootstrap to VC-Backed SaaS 6:48 — Post-Acquisition Life: M&A and Private Equity 9:16 — Cloud Spend Benchmarks: 10-20% of Revenue 12:10 — The Commitment Trap: Saving Money vs Taking Risk 15:39 — AI's Impact on Cloud Economics 20:11 — How Cloud Capital Works: Financial Risk Transfer 29:28 — Building AI-Native: Wisdom Plus Automation 34:01 — Partnership Strategy: Bottom-Up vs Top-Down 41:49 — 20 Years of Lessons: Running at Brick Walls 43:55 — Founder Hack: Walking Meetings Ed - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ebarrow/ Cloud Capital - https://www.cloudcapital.co/ Subscribe to our channel to be the first to see the interviews that we publish - https://www.youtube.com/@saas-group Stay up to date: Twitter: https://twitter.com/SaaS_group LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/14790796