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Benchmarking Atlassian's S-1 - How 7 Key SaaS Metrics Stack Up

Tom Tunguz

Founded in 2002, the Australian software maker Atlassian is an exceptional company in many regards. The chart above details the revenue growth of the business compared to the median of the 50+ publicly traded SaaS companies. But foremost, Atlassian is one of the best examples of flywheel SaaS companies yet. Atlassian operates at 83.4%

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

SaaStr

Felix will share insights on how he founded Collibra in Belgium, successfully relocated the company headquarters to New York City, and raised $233 million total in venture capital to become a unicorn company. If we combine it with a business model that nobody really understands, it’s just too much.

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The Birth of Freemium

ProfitWell

In that one sentence Dyson created the most prolific business model of the next two decades: freemium. From 1992 until 2002, the number of AOL subscribers grew 125X, from 200,000 to 25,000,000. At the end of the post, Wilson says: I would like to have a name for this business model. But it worked.

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The Things Nobody Tells You About An $8B Acquisition with Ryan Smith from Qualtrics (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Jared started, this is in 2002, he’s got the Antonio Banderas look going on there. I mean we targeted the academic market, which is a horrible business model. Ryan Smith: I think if you look at this, this is a great way for those who are new and the tech, if you look at 2002, we were in the shadow of the.com.