Exhibit 99.2
Company Name: W3BCLOUD (W3B)
Event: 25th Annual Needham Growth Conference
Date: January 11, 2023
<<Gregory McNiff, Analyst, The Blueshirt Group>>
Good morning. Thank you for joining us. Today, we have W3BCLOUD. My name is Greg McNiff. I’m with The Blueshirt Group, and we’re providing IR services for W3BCLOUD. We’re joined today by Sami Issa, the CEO; and Wael Aburida, the CFO of W3BCLOUD.
I would ask you to note that the risk and disclaimers discuss forward-looking projections. Please read them in regarding this presentation. Additionally, they’ve agreed to take questions afterwards. I would ask that you refrain from asking about the pending transaction or any forward-looking projections. Thank you.
With that, I’ll turn it over to Sami.
<<Sami Issa, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer>>
Thank you. Good morning, everyone. Happy New Year. Am I supposed to see the slides here? Because I don’t see them. I hope you guys had a great holiday season. Greg, thankfully gave us the disclaimers and risks, and et cetera, so I don’t have to repeat that. And I will start. Oops, I’ll start with a story actually, and hopefully every – all of you know this, right, at least portions of it. So many years ago, 10-ish years ago, a brilliant man said that software is eating the world.
Does anybody not know this quote? You know this quote. Okay. 10 years later, his firm came up with a fantastic article that I suggest you guys all read it. And basically it says that there is a paradox in the cloud space and that out of the entire article, which I really recommend you read, I took two key points. Point number one that about 70% of cost of revenue for any software company that is using the cloud is the cloud service cost, which is clearly staggering.
Point number two is that about if you analyze the market including 50 public cloud comp – software companies, you will find that about $0.5 trillion is $500 billion of market value has been transferred from these software companies to the cloud providers. I mean, in this case, probably it’s a cloud provider, right? Because we know who owns the market in that space.
So from 2011, when the famous quote that software is eating the world – many north of 50 companies, software companies went public, all using the cloud as their backbone. And a whole ecosystem of VC and financial capital market funding was established around that notion. And then 10 – 12 years later, we discovered that the cost structure of the cloud has a fundamental problem.
You start – it’s the right way to start. The reason why they call this paradox is because it’s probably a good way to start as a software company with no cost on infrastructure. But then once you grow, it becomes incredibly difficult to exit. And that is the cause – that is the reason behind the $0.5 trillion of value transfer. This is in Web2. We haven’t even talked about Web3, but it’s important to kind of understand the history and how we are evolving, okay?