SaaStr
MAY 29, 2019
eventually rising to CEO in 2001. With over 8,000 enterprise business using Qualtrics, the company counts Fandango, Xerox, Microsoft and Jetblue among its many high profile customers. The company just raised another $33M round this March from Melinda Gates’ Pivotal Ventures and former Obama White House advisor Valerie Jarrett.
SaaSOptics
MAY 5, 2022
I was there when the bubble burst in 2001, the meltdown of 2008, and I’ve seen our industry rise again as SaaS businesses have attracted incredible amounts of capital over the past 10 years. How the magic happens. I’ve spent 20+ years in tech–all of it in the Internet sector. Maxio is more than the sum of its parts. What lies ahead.
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SaaStr
JANUARY 9, 2021
There are not a lot of women in tech, so Therese’s mentors were all older gentlemen who had been very successful in a business of their own. BlackLine was started in 2001 during a black swan event when the internet seemingly ended and we’re currently in the midst of another black swan event with the global coronavirus pandemic.
OpenView Labs
APRIL 16, 2020
Those who went through the 2001 and 2008 economic downturns emerged with valuable lessons on navigating a crisis—not to mention a heck of a lot of resilience. You were SVP of Business Strategy at Macromedia as the dot-com bubble burst and the economy halted after 9/11. And we introduced a subscription business model.
Valuize Consulting
JUNE 10, 2020
C ustomer success processes in B2B software businesses today are often inefficient, siloed and lacking scalability. Today, many businesses are investing in customer success technology in the hope that ‘plugging it in’ will solve the challenges that come with their current reality. It’s also typically hard to measure their impact.
SaaStr
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
371: It’s no secret that businesses today are struggling with an unpredictable economy. First, do no harm and deliver the business results. So, you kind of have to challenge that stack ranking in order to keep something that’s low on the list in play, or you have to make a really good business case for reordering that stack rank.
SaaStr
MAY 23, 2019
I’ve also had more than 10 years of CMO experience, including a good run at Business Objects where I ran marketing as we grew from 30 million to over a billion in revenue during a nine-year period. Those that had raised a large amount of money at a ridiculous valuation prior to April 2001 or dead. I sit on boards. ” Right?
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