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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? Three of these companies went public.

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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. And the team deck doesn’t say who the CEO is? We called ourselves a team of four, actually, who operate and make decisions, and it’s just how we rolled. Jason Lemkin: Oh, I see. Ryan Smith: No. Jason Lemkin: What does it say?

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SaaStr Podcast #394 with Sunil Dhaliwal and Jason Lemkin

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394: Where is Venture Capital today? Sunil Dhaliwal: I was at one of the biggest firms around and I think we had a $200 million fund and people were like, I can’t believe we’re running $200 million in venture capital. And how do you hack it? This episode is sponsored by Outgrow. Jason Lemkin: Crazy.