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Even More of SaaStr’s Most Respected Leaders Unveiled!

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He served as CEO for the company until 2002 before moving on to Materna. You may have heard of a few of their customers: American Eagle, IBM Cloud, Instacart, Netflix, Paypal, and Gap just to name a few. His sales focused, actionable content made an impact on the audience. He moved the company to San Francisco in 2009.

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A Look Back: Slack at $30,000,000 in ARR

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And we ended the day with an incredible combo of the hottest app at that time (and one of the hottest ever), Slack, who likely was around $30m ARR or so … and hadn’t yet added a sales team! I’m like, “Where can I talk to a sales rep?” Can you get to $100 million without a sales team, do you think?

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What Are The Top 50 SaaS Companies in 2020?

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The Atlassian Corporation has reached billions in revenue even without an enterprise sales team, all by creating user-friendly software development, team collaboration, project management tools including JIRA and Confluence. It was acquired by eBay in 2002 but split in 2014. Customer Support. Finance & Accounting. Salesforce.