SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

Aaron : Well, also, as someone who went through this, especially like the 2000, 2001 times. And I remember being at that Dreamforce in 2009, which was awful. Every retail shop was closed by 2000. ” I’m like, that sounds awful. And every vendor was just staring at each other like the world’s dead.

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FastSpring

MARCH 10, 2023

And then there was this big ERP dying, which was shot after the first ecommerce new academy scene was going down for 2000 2001. So it was very exotic, that you’re making business on Mac machines, not only using them for a creative world, even using them for real business properties. And I love that very much.

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SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

Then, I started a company, which I sold in early 2000. And I remember AWS was growing really quickly. And at the time there was a big debate of, will big companies ever really use AWS? And who you need to be your first 20 teammates, who you need to be 20 to 100, who you need to go from 300 to 2000.

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SaaStr

APRIL 24, 2020

That market grew four, five fold in five years from ’95 to 2000 because you got people out of the intellectualizing of what technology could do to them or for them into the sheer business environment need to compete or to survive. John Mellor: And that’s where we are now. Our CEO, of course, was there.

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BetterCloud

MARCH 31, 2020

Does using it remind me of Windows XP/2000? (No If it’s hosted on AWS and some AWS AZs go down, do they have continuity built in? Does the application have self-service support? Do they have public support pages and documentation? Do they have a chat option within the app if someone wants immediate help? Administration.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 3, 2019

And those of us and those of you who are involved in these companies, even the successful ones look an awful lot more like this. In 2000 when the early marketing automation companies tried to exist there wasn’t the need, but by ’06 marketers were using digital advertising, email marketing, Google Ad Words.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

I’m going to get the numbers wrong, I think Amazon has 10,000 open positions out in AWS. We give away thousands… It’s not just tickets, but we do give away 2000 tickets. Jason Lemkin: We have budgeted in, we would like 2000 great, less represented founders at Annual and 1000 at Europa.

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Outseta

MAY 8, 2020

There’s an awful lot of nuance here and the devil is in the details. Likewise, a company that’s generating 2000 leads per month might be much better off focusing their sales team’s efforts on just 200 of the very best leads—but your VP of Marketing’s performance is being assessed against a lead quota.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

I think every one of us that had lived through 2001 and 2002 or 2000, 2001, and then again, lived through ’08, ’09, we immediately pulled out our playbooks and we’re like, “Here it is, this is the downturn we’ve been waiting for.” Sunil Dhaliwal: What have I seen? Right out of the gate, everybody stopped.

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2024

” “I hated Katie at that company meeting, it was awful.” At 2000, it’s a fact of life, right? I don’t know if a 2000 person public company you can take that position, but what have you learned when you hear these types, especially in 2018, when you hear these comments?

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2020

And I remember like AWS was growing really quickly. And at the time there was a big debate of, “Will big companies ever really use AWS?” ” Well, fast forward 10 years later, that seems like such a naive thing to say today. Actually people look different in those stages and some things are the same.

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Point Nine Land

JANUARY 30, 2019

In my article “SaaS” is not to be understood as an industry, but rather as an innovation wave (product and business model innovation) which impacted the B2B software industry in the 2000s and came after the “on-premise” wave. Comparing the installation phase for the SaaS and AI waves 1.1 Infrastructure. Integration.

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