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

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Felix : I think now looking back, I think the big proxy there is we sell typically into the chief data officers, I think the first chief data officer that was ever hired was at capital one in 2002 and 2008 we started Collibra in 2010 so two years after we started Collibra world, there were 15 chief data offices, one five and in 2014 there were 400.

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

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I lucked into SaaS all the way back in 2002 when it was called ASP. Eric Christopher: I think one thing that’s an interesting trend is that a lot of early SaaS companies sell to a lot of other SaaS companies because they’re early adopters. What was that a-ha moment? Eric Christopher: Great questions.

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Building a $100M ARR Sales Team the Second Time Around with WP Engine (Video + Transcript)

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One is you will be able to identify trends in your business far quicker and take action when you see those things happening when you’re focusing on the inputs. This can be a really, really exciting time in a company’s history, but also one where companies tend to go and make mistakes. What about through partnerships?

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