SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

” And actually Chris today 17 years later he’s actually still running that business at Oracle, but a lot of our other families so he joined us at the BigMachines in 2000 to run our European business. Tim Handorf you can see there, joined me at BigMachines in 2000. He’s still with us today, now running ThreeKit.

Sales Recruiting 166

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

So Pardot, SalesLoft and Calendly, you’re thinking, “How is this random guy from Atlanta 2000 miles away at the starting floor, at the ground floor of three pretty interesting SaaS companies?” Everybody got a $2000 a year budget to go to conferences like this to do continuing education. And it worked great.

Sales Recruiting 164

Sales Recruiting Scale Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring 164

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Aaron’s taking support calls, you’ve got people just … you do whatever you need to do to make the company successful. But we’re at a point now we’re 2000 employees. But you know, again, we’re 2000 people. And what that means is that they’re very specialized roles, right?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 7, 2020

There’s a lot of SaaS companies that are doing a 100 million ARR and they have 1000 people. And then they do 200 million ARR and they have 2000 people. That’s how you know you have a good business. That’s really a business with very little leverage and that’s really a business where people are powering it.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 21, 2020

It’s 2000 bucks, but it’s awesome. We’ve done everything from taking people down to the beach and give them 50 bucks in quarters to this young person on the left getting on a private plane, which is a really fun one that we run. We get a tremendous amount of revenue from it.

Sales Recruiting 254

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Sales 254

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

We made it and we eventually sold the company and had a great exit, but I think one of things that it teaches you is okay, you’ve got to be very disciplined and prudent about cash and you have to be prepared for downside but maybe the more important thing for me is the rebounds teach you a lot too.

Sales Hiring 114

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SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

For Slack, it was one that a team sends 2000 messages. It’s too much of a laginator, so we have to identify a leading indicator to learn fast. And I think a lot of you caught the aha moment. What is your aha moment? For Dropbox it was when a user added a file in a folder on a device.

Scale 206

Scale Sales Hiring Revenue VP of Engineering 206

SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2019

I’m an entrepreneur-turned-investor, co-founder of an early generation one, SaaS company called Message Labs that we founded in 2000. Exited to Semantic in 2008 and had a good exit for the early SaaS businesses then set up Notion and we focus on SaaS companies, mainly in Series A in the European market.

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Payments Payment Features SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 102

SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2024

At 2000, it’s a fact of life, right? Because I think the generation before us, you built your career at IBM, you stayed for a lifetime, you built your career at one company. If it’s not death, it’s painful. Katie Burke: So it’s certainly painful but it’s not death. Death under 20, it can be near death.

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2020

And I think trying to get that first team to come join you and then scaling the team 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. Actually people look different in those stages and some things are the same. People matter, they make a huge difference.

Sales Hiring 166

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