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Even More of SaaStr’s Most Respected Leaders Unveiled!

SaaStr

About Mikkel… According to Mikkel “the cloud’s biggest days are yet to come”, his stories of a time when “the cloud” wasn’t exactly the reality it is today inspired SaaStr attendees to heavily bookmark his session ahead of the event. He served as CEO for the company until 2002 before moving on to Materna.

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“The “Dos & Don’ts” of Building Winning SaaS Companies with G2 Crowd (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And so we started building a cloud solution, but it was a long arduous journey. I think in 2002 we only signed up two customers and this was after the dot-com bubble burst, 9/11 happened. It’s in the cloud. We built a CPQ in the cloud, can we partner?” Dell was selling configural PCs online.

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PODCAST 76: Bottom-up Approach for Sales Rep Productivity Model w/ Kevin Egan

Sales Hacker

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we talk to Kevin Egan, VP of North American Sales at Slack. Kevin’s sales career has taken him from Oracle, to Dropbox, to Salesforce, and now, to Slack. How experience as a sales engineer can play into your role as a sales leader. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

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SaaStr Podcast #394 with Sunil Dhaliwal and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

I wanted to have another fun, informal conversation with, one of, I think, the most insightful and smartest cloud investors, Sunil Dhaliwal. Interesting for a couple reasons, but Sunil’s been investing in cloud internet since before almost anybody. Sunil Dhaliwal: There was no systems management tools. One person, 50.

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What Are The Top 50 SaaS Companies in 2020?

SmartKarrot

There has been a gradual shift from client/server architecture to the options provided by a hybrid cloud – the integration of public and private cloud. Owing to cost-effectiveness and confidentiality attributes, SaaS businesses continue to opt for cloud services. 5000 Rank in 2019 in the security industry. billion in 2017.

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

SaaStr

It’s going to change how everyone thinks about cloud and SaaS for ever. And we were about a $50 million sales run rate, but I’d never done a media interview. Jared started, this is in 2002, he’s got the Antonio Banderas look going on there. We’re just getting started. Jason Lemkin: Thanks for coming back.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Zylo and TaskRabbit — July 26, 2019

SaaStr

252: Eric Christopher is the Founder and CEO @ Zylo, the software management system built for the cloud pioneering a new standard in software management. Prior to founding Zylo, Eric was the VP of Sales @ Sprout Social leading the revenue operations for over 11,000 customers. What was the founding moment with Zylo?