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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. It can order subscription. But again, at the time SaaS wasn’t, subscription wasn’t the norm at all.

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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. Harry Stebbings: Well, I think I should invoice you for the advice because that was fantastic.

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The Birth of Freemium

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From 1992 until 2002, the number of AOL subscribers grew 125X, from 200,000 to 25,000,000. Bundled service providers like AOL have phased out and cloud-based subscription services are enjoying their time in the sun. We’ve got words like subscription, ad supported, license, and ASP, that are well understood. But it worked.

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