SaaStr

MAY 20, 2020

Their competitor bought them out in April 2000, couldn’t IPO, and was bankrupt by August. He joined StubHub as CTO, but didn’t get nearly as much equity as the other CTO — because he “wasn’t committed enough.” But at that time, fundraising was really tough. But a few investors got it.

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SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2019

Megan Leuders: So a great example of that is when we’re selling to a large financial institution and we do sell to kind of the Global 2000. Eyal Manor : But there is a lot of investment in that direction. At Zenoss, again, our target market is Global 2000. And you’ve just mentioned several things.

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

And so once I had the idea I convinced my father to invest and become a customer. ” 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. He was investing in internet companies.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Interesting for a couple reasons, but Sunil’s been investing in cloud internet since before almost anybody. So, not that many people have started so early in the career, so long in the space, and great investments that we know like Datadog and Fastly, and good at it. GP and founder of Amplify Partners. Jason Lemkin: Crazy.

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Hull

JANUARY 22, 2019

These roles are filled by engineers that roll up to the CMO/COO (not CTO) as part of a growth team. By 2000, cookie-based A/B testing on web birthed the "Conversion Rate Optimization" industry. Brianne Kimmel made the move from marketing through growth to advising and investing. Same process, different medium.

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2024

At SaaStr Annual we had a great session with HubSpot Founder & CTO, Dharmesh Shah, and their Chief People Officer, Katie Burke, on building happier employees. So, for those of you thinking, “Hey, I’m going wait on the ROI of our culture, or I’m going to wait to invest in our employee experience,” wait no longer.

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