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. Speaking of the long game, Matt talks about the launch of the 100-year subscription plan last year. What’s the Business Model Behind Automattic and WordPress?

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Underperforming Technical Team Social Media Government Subscription 279

Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

All of the businesses we’ve looked at in the past have been purely SaaS businesses. Tableau sells software the old-fashioned way, with perpetual licenses not subscriptions. To offset the mostly one-time payment from customers, Tableau employs a land-and-expand strategy.

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Benchmarks SaaS Payments Metrics Scale 100

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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Outseta

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

In 2003 we realized that CMOs were really struggling with the auction-based nature of media buying in Search and we knew that was a math problem we could solve in a way that would tie directly to their business success. Soren: This was 2003, and I was working as Head of Business Development for a web engineering company in Boston.

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Interviewing SaaS Payments Payments Technical Advisors 40