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Be the Up in a Downturn: Advice From SurveyMonkey’s Tom Hale

OpenView Labs

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. So we had to prune back even as we were pivoting the teams and the leadership to chase a new opportunity. Put your best talent and leadership on transformation.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Jennifer Tejada, Ben Chestnut, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

Earlier this year, we redoubled our focus on our enterprise segment where we have a strong leadership position. Jason Lemkin: You were nominally founded in 2001, right? Whether we start in 2007, 2009, 2001, it’s a slow roll to Act Two, right? And those are the outcomes that we’re looking for. You had to pay.

Scale 153
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Q&A with Maria Pergolino, Anthony Kennada, Aaron Ross and Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

If you haven’t signed up on the mobile app or whatever, it’s cool. Aaron : Well, also, as someone who went through this, especially like the 2000, 2001 times. ” So we want to own it and be able to work with sales and sort of a servant leadership perspective, put them in a position to prospect. Please sign up.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week: May 17, 2019

SaaStr

The worst was right after we started BigMachines in 2000, we had a massive bust in 2001. And that’s where I think a lot of founding people struggle, is you have to go from being a manager and being able to run one team to building a global, scalable, multi tiered leadership org. Godard Abel: Yeah, and I lived through two busts.

Scale 140
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The Midas List Live (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

So that was wearables mobile, we don’t yet know what the next platform is going to be. Ann: Yeah, I just…I go to those comments and just say… I was in the venture industry back in 2001. And so there were companies that had to pull their IPO in 2001. And it’s exactly what you need.