The cloud industry from 2000-2020 In 2000, emerging private cloud companies included, Salesforce, Netsuite, and Paypal, but there were zero private companies that were valued $1 billion. It wasn’t until 2008 that the industry saw a privately held cloud company, LinkedIn, reach a $1 billion+ valuation. So much has changed in just 20 years. As of February 2020, there are more than 86 private cloud u