SaaStr

JANUARY 27, 2024

SaaStr was created in 2012 to democratize learning and how to build B2B companies, and WordPress was started in 2003 to democratize publishing. What’s the Business Model Behind Automattic and WordPress? A year later, they created Automattic as a commercial services business around WordPress.

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Underperforming Technical Team Social Media Government Subscription 274

Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

Founded in 2003, Tableau followed a more gradual revenue growth curve than the median SaaS company. For every sales and marketing dollar Tableau invests, the business returns more than $1.54. And they have been investing at this rate for as long as we have data to measure it.

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OPEXEngine

MAY 19, 2020

This potential change in the interest rate environment will be a new regime for most management teams, and should prompt them to take a multiyear view of their capital structure and the timing of investments. Other lagging companies strayed outside their core business, investing in the latest hot sectors and tools, praying for a winner.

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SaaStr

APRIL 24, 2020

It started back in 2003, when I joined Omniture, which was an analytics company founded here in Utah. John Mellor: And that year, when I joined in 2003, Omniture did $8 million in revenue. ” Clearly, Wall Street and the Adobe team knew the benefit of a subscription business model and the transition into SaaS.

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SaaStr

MAY 30, 2019

We sold that to IBM in 2003, and it was a fantastic experience. And, during that period of time we began to see the early phase of cloud and SaaS companies, and we saw the change in the business model and had conviction that it was a powerful change and would really fundamentally alter the way we thought about software companies.

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SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2023

In a kind of analogous way, everyone uses the Internet now, which wasn’t true certainly, when we started Flickr, in late 2003. Jason : A lot of things I want to chat about with limited time, but I want to talk about business models, because we’re here about scaling revenue. Slack for Business?

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 24, 2019

Salesforce figured out in 2003 that just having the list of partners on our site that integrated with customers wasn’t enough; we needed to facilitate the discovery, the ranking and the promotion of community advocacy around these solutions. John: You guys have made a lot of investments or bets on early stage companies.

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