In building Third South, we gave very little premeditated thought to the topic of vendor consolidation. After owning and operating assets for two years, we now have opinions!
Each of our portfolio companies does two things, more or less: deliver a web-hosted service to a customer and accept payment for those services. Exactly how each company does the service delivery varies.
Some are apps in an ecosystem where significant infrastructure is provided by the ecosystem host. Others are more traditionally built SaaS, where we are responsible for all aspects of service delivery from development to deployment.
Our Preferred Stack (details below)