2024 W17 - Looking at Suppliers!

Humberto

Every week I post about one thing that happened at Rows. We're building in public!

I was just checking the cost split between our suppliers. Specifically I wanted to see the split among tech tools. There's a lot you can do with spreadsheets. But listing and aggregating things like suppliers is very obvious! This is the summary embed:

This is the actual spreadsheet!

Findings:

It's no surprise to find tech infra at the top. That said, Google Cloud was always our main compute supplier, but recently Microsoft Azure has been growing in spend (Azure OpenAI!).
Most of the stuff is inexpensive, relatively speaking. The biggest buckets are <1k and 1-10k. Even within 1-10k, the average (not in the report) is <5k.
There was one supplier with a relative high cost (near 10k per year) that I had no idea we had. The marketing stack makes some changes!

We can probably spend a bit more on tools; If your tool can help us get more Business people who are frustrated about how hard it is to work with data, maybe there's a way for us to work together. (No promise there).

Note: yes, I removed stuff like accountants and other suppliers IRL-AFK. Because Tech!

See you next week!

Humberto