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

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He also discusses all the trials, errors and successes he had throughout all of his previous startups. But then after joining them, and we sold that startup to another startup NICU, I went home to Pittsburgh in 1999 which led to the inspiration for starting our first business. Want to see more content like this session?

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

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How does a startup that launched during the financial crisis in 2008 become a unicorn company in 2019? Felix Van de Maele, Co-Founder and CEO of Collibra, will be joined by Teddie Wardi, Managing Director of Insight Partners, to unpack how he built a unicorn company from idea to conception to record growth. So it’s been awhile.

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

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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. I don’t think we thought we were going to do a startup. Jason Lemkin: Oh, I see. And then he took off to Google, which was really weird.

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

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Prior to founding Zylo, Eric was the VP of Sales @ Sprout Social leading the revenue operations for over 11,000 customers. Before Sprout Social he was VP of Sales at Shoutlet, responsible for global direct and channel sales teams and developing and managing strategic relationships. What was the founding moment with Zylo?

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Matrix Partners and EZPR — February 21, 2020

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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. * How does David think about scaling sales teams? How should founders think about sales rep compensation?

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