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SaaStr Podcast #394 with Sunil Dhaliwal and Jason Lemkin

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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? Everything just stopped.

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The Top 5 Questions Every CEO Wrestles With – Lessons From Host Analytics (Video + Transcript)

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Those that had raised a large amount of money at a ridiculous valuation prior to April 2001 or dead. So that’s the one scale is saying, “Big distraction, we can’t do this every year. ” And, of course, I mean look at all the stuff they’ve done since: AWS, Mechanical Turk, the fulfillment model.

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Q&A with Maria Pergolino, Anthony Kennada, Aaron Ross and Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

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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. So on a scale of one to 10, what type of feedback do you want? ” I’m like, that sounds awful. I mean, literally. Every retail shop was closed by 2000.