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Who is Marty Cagan: Background, Books, Product Management Tips, and More

User Pilot

Beyond his corporate endeavors, Marty’s passion for nurturing talent and fostering innovation led him to found the Silicon Valley Product Group (SVPG) in 2002. In this role, he drove the development of products that took eBay’s global e-commerce platform to new levels of success.

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From Slooooow Growth to Hypergrowth with Collibra and Insight Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Teddie : And also we’ve seen the BI market that’s been acquisitions at the last. And then the value proposition changes because it’s not about regulatory and compliance, it’s all about now is AI and machine learning and analytics and so on. And so it’s interesting to see how that has changed.

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Salesforce’s Mike Kreaden on how to build a platform to drive growth

Intercom, Inc.

He joined me for a chat that ranged from the role of AI to how they choose startups to incubate. Customer nurturing now starts from the first touch, and AI can help with that. You’ve had a number of roles at Salesforce since you joined the company back in early 2002, from product management to startup relations.

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What Are The Top 50 SaaS Companies in 2020?

SmartKarrot

This is increasing the spending as more and more features are being offered, through acquisitions or expansion. A noteworthy contribution by AI has fortified cloud security. Cisco’s growth is often referred to as the ‘growth by acquisition’. It was acquired by eBay in 2002 but split in 2014. billion by 2022.

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5 Shifts to Move to Mega-Deal Thinking & Catch Whales: Overcoming Small-Deal Syndrome (Summit Replay)

Sales Hacker

What had happened was, we had gone through an acquisition of a product that the customer was using, and during that acquisition what many times what happens is many people in the acquired company tend to leave and go do something else. The customer was very, very unhappy, the customer was considering alternative providers.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Matrix Partners and EZPR — February 21, 2020

SaaStr

Prior to its July 2002 acquisition by Novell, SilverStream was a public company that had reached a revenue run rate in excess of $100M, with approximately 800 employees and offices in more than 20 countries around the world. Since then David has founded a total of four separate companies and performed one turn-around.

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