SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

I’m going to get the numbers wrong, I think Amazon has 10,000 open positions out in AWS. These are categories of software that have existed for 30 or 40 years for a reason. You can mock Salesforce or Oracle or Workday, but these are endemic issues that will always need heavy software. Are they smarter and love software?

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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. And we’re not all building the most mission critical software, but our stakeholders don’t want to rip us out.

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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. But back in 2006 they were fighting conventional wisdom and the conventional wisdom at that time was that you could not make money selling software to marketers. And it’s the reaction to those problems.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 13, 2025

He also co-founded WGI Group, LLC, to provide growth capital to early and expansion stage startups in enterprise software, consumer internet and digital media industries. Why software innovation must start with intelligence, not workflow. Previously, Michael was co-founder and Chairman of Moat Inc. Quick bio for the listeners. [00:02:00]

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SaaStr

APRIL 24, 2020

It was back when you used different words for it, things like managed software or application service provider. Number one is they didn’t really have an enterprise software selling group when they bought Omniture, so that route to market was something they were very interested in creating. That company is just phenomenal.

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SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

Then, I started a company, which I sold in early 2000. How does it differ, in terms of traditional enterprise software, versus open source? 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? Then, I went into sales school, Xerox sales school.

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FastSpring

MARCH 10, 2023

In 2006, founded iOSXpert — now the largest partner of the Mac-based CRM and project management software Daylite. We are more or less a business consulting company as a software consulting company that as there are many outside, but we are specialized in Apple users, helping Apple users. They were creating ERP software for Mac users.

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2020

And so when you think back to what was happening, when we start back in 2010, when we were working on this idea in 2009, we just saw there’s this huge shift going on, where we were going from a world from hardware and software that you owned to services in the cloud that you rented. And I remember like AWS was growing really quickly.

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2024

Ever since I was a little boy on the dusty streets of India, I’m like, “Someday, there will be an industry where we can ship software, without actually shipping software, and all customers will be on a single version. I’ve been in the software industry for a long, long time. It will be awesome.”

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