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Employee Spotlight: Bill Wilson, Senior Director of Product and Kite Designer

FastSpring

How long have you been working in the SaaS/Tech industry? My first job in tech was in 1998 as a software developer. and have been working in tech ever since. In about 2002, I got into more of a leadership position for satellite offices of larger companies. I’m going to date myself. I started with Java 0.9

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

SaaStr

Our relationship to technology has changed a lot in the last little while in a way that I don’t think we’ve really noticed yet, like the frog in the pot of water. There’s a vendor review approval process, and a security policy analyst, and their in house counsel wants to mark up the TOS. You had a BlackBerry in 2002.

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Salesforce’s Mike Kreaden on how to build a platform to drive growth

Intercom, Inc.

Mike has been in and around startups for the better part of three decades: as a consultant, as a co-founder and now as the Managing Director of Salesforce Incubator, which propels new startups into the marketplace. He joined me for a chat that ranged from the role of AI to how they choose startups to incubate. Short on time?

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week: May 17, 2019

SaaStr

Godard Abel: Well G2 in some ways, is the fourth or fifth startup I’ve helped to build, and I really got going now about 20 years ago. So I helped them build that, and we sold to a bigger startup, Niku, which went public. So it was I think the most severe recession I certainly lived through, especially in tech.

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

SaaStr

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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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Fmr. CEO of Host Analytics and CEO of Namely — Jun 14, 2019

SaaStr

241: Dave Kellogg is a leading technology executive, independent board member, advisor and angel investor. He’s the leading technology executive, independent board member, advisor and Angel investor. So, as a startup operator I’m very sensitive to running out of cash. So my first thing is, be situational.