That makes sense honestly, B2B SaaS is lucrative, steady, and honestly probably moreso than a B2C business could be. Many of the big software players most people have never heard of.
As a consumer, you're almost certainly in a Salesforce system somewhere, but most people have no idea what Salesforce is.
The steel production and raw materials industry is a whole different world. I am not knowledgable in the area at all but a recent linkedin post by a friend was listing the biggest steel producers by country, I did not recognise any names except Tata from India and Thyssenkrupp from Germany.
Here is a list I found from a quick search, try to guess which country the biggest producers is based in or how many of top 5 you expect to have heard of before opening the link.
That is a lot of Chinese steel, at what looks to be about 25% of the total worldwide production, just by the companies listed in the top 41. It looks like possibly a majority of worldwide production isn't in this list (which seems to gut off at less than 10 million tonnes), so it's possible it's even higher, if there's a lot of small steel companies based in China as well.
This is actually pretty amazing. I predicted that the top few would be US based companies but I hadn't heard of them because they are rounding errors. I was wrong about that but the first US based steel company on the list is in my neighborhood. I ride up to their plant on my daily bike ride.
I am always amazed when I listen to my rancher buddy talk about cattle prices on weekly calls. There are so many industries I'm completely oblivious to.
I actually have agriculture experience. That's how I paid for college. You're absolutely right but I bet there's more than one AWS.
I think many people have heard of John Deere and Monsanto but what about McGregor? They may not be as big as AWS but even with Ag experience I bet there are bigger similar organizations.
I bet there are big custom harvest operations too. We had a two man operation on the Palouse but I heard stories about huge operations out of Texas that migrated through the midwest following harvest cycles.
As a consumer, you're almost certainly in a Salesforce system somewhere, but most people have no idea what Salesforce is.