SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

It was around that time about 12 years ago that Jeff Bezos launched AWS, and some of you may remember that, when he did this, Wall Street analysts were looking at him and saying, “Why would you take what’s already a very unprofitable business and drive it further into the red by investing in this AWS initiative?”

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 14, 2021

When it launched in 2011, Treasure Data’s positioning was a Hadoop-based big data warehouse in the cloud. Commoditization From AWS & Google Cloud. Kazuki Ohta, CEO & Founder at Treasure Data, shares his company’s story of how pivoting at the right time saved their business and accelerated their growth to $100 million ARR.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

And I remember at Facebook, one of the things that I was really impressed by at the time, and we’re going back now to the 2011 era… “I remember Zuck used to talk about two timelines, roughly six months and 20 years. I was having a great time there, back in 2011. That’s the dream, that’s the vision. Paul: No comments.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

And I remember at Facebook, one of the things that I was really impressed by at the time, and we’re going back now to the 2011 era… “I remember Zuck used to talk about two timelines, roughly six months and 20 years. I was having a great time there, back in 2011. That’s the dream, that’s the vision. Paul: No comments.

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BetterCloud

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Since 2011, BetterCloud has been on a mission to help organizations realize the promise of SaaS by empowering them to more easily manage and secure SaaS applications. Today marks a milestone event in the history of BetterCloud, and more importantly, a monumental step forward for the SaaSOps movement.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

2011 – MySQL. 2011-2014 – MongoDB. Internally, too, we were suffering – our infrastructure team spent nearly all their time keeping user storage alive, and it was not the sort of problem that we could solve by spending more with AWS. Evaluating AWS Databases. A brief history of user storage.

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SaaStr

JUNE 25, 2019

I’ve been with the company since 2011. A little more about me, as I’ve said, I’ve been with Eventbrite since 2011. I started right at the end of 2011, and I started in the role of VP of engineering. This was what Eventbrite was in 2011 when I started. That’s my walk up music.

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Chargify

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

It’s likely that you have seen one of Martech’s Marketing Technology Landscape diagrams illustrating the rapid growth from ~150 players in 2011 to over 5,000 in 2017: Increased competition and saturated markets have eroded differentiation and perceived-value between products. with numerous upsell and cross-sell opportunities.

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SaaStr

APRIL 24, 2020

I think it was 2011 when they did the annual analyst meeting, and they dropped their revenue forecast by $100 million. And so, you’ve got this tendency to evaluate scenarios in your head, and some of those scenarios are pretty awful. And the stock popped. We thought, “What in the world just happened?”

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2022

Found in 2011 by Sanjoe Jose, Talview is one of the fastest hiring and recruitment software for enterprise employers. Found in 2011 by Byju Raveendran and Divya Gokulnath, BYJU’S is an e-learning program, a brand of the Bangalore-based educational technology ( EdTech ) Think and Learn Private Ltd.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 16, 2020

In 2011 I got a call from Andrew Chen to come out and work for him at a startup that he was running, which was my first time working in a very, very rigorous environment, focused on user growth and experimentation. .” So tell me Paul, how did you make your way into the world of SaaS and how did you come to found Balsa most recently?

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Unbounce

JULY 30, 2019

A mystery box takes an awful lot of the pressure off visitors looking for a meaningful gift. Since 2011, in fact, they’ve made the countdown to the sale itself into an event with “Countdown to Black Friday Deals Week.” ” But this period is also punctuated by flash sales and specials meant to keep the customer excited.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2019

I was the 12th employee of a test prep company that grew to close to 200 employees by the time I left, joined Twitter when they were really starting to build out the sales organization in early 2011, as the first sales manager hired, and after being there for over six years, I really missed the building stage of the company.

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