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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Keith Rabois and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

353: Keith Rabois (Paypal, Linkedin, Square) and SaaStr Founder Jason Lemkin talk about the landscape of SaaS & Cloud fundraising and valuation in 2020. Does it not all bubble up to even the best cloud stocks? But we’ll still put up 2X even with COVID, which by most metrics that’s a pretty good year.

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More of SaaStr’s Most Respected Leaders Awards List Revealed!

SaaStr

About Eric… Elisa Steele holds strong at number twenty-two with high-interest metrics from our attendees who looked forward to her as a speaker. Duo Security, now a part of Cisco, is a provider of unified access security and multi-factor authentication delivered via the cloud. Eric Yuan Zoom Founder/CEO.

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Product Led, but People Focused

OpenView Labs

Deputy , for instance, was a reimagining of an in-house tool that took on a life of its own once we combined the core technology with the idea of product led growth and the power of a cloud-based platform. The first time I worked with Steve was back in 2003. The Catalyst – The Hybrid Product/Human Solution.

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Decacorns & Unicorns in 2020: Founders Fund Keith Rabois and SaaStr’s Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Look at this, the BVP Cloud Index we plummeted in March and then as we were talking about before, if you just put all your money just into Square on March 20th, you would have doubled your money, right? Does it not all bubble up to even the best cloud stocks? Does it not matter for the chart on the left? I think by segment.

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Building Customer Success Into The DNA of Your SaaS Start-up - An Interview With Aaron Fulkerson, CEO, MindTouch

Outseta

In early 2016 the company raised a $12mm Series A led by PeakSpan Capital to accelerate growth, largely on the back on fantastic customer success oriented metrics. This was in 2003 or 2004, and we were spending $2B dollars a year in research which is nothing by today's standards but it was for the most that was being spent at that time.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Domo and Gorgias — April 24, 2020

SaaStr

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. We controlled a lot of how the pieces came together and what were the operational metrics that we built to report up to the CEO.

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Top 10 Lessons Learned in Getting to $100M ARR with Adaptive Insights (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

From team to vision to metrics to funding and more, these principles provide the framework for high-growth, high performing SaaS companies. We sold that to IBM in 2003, and it was a fantastic experience. And, by the way, at Adaptive Insights, we’re a cloud based company. Cloud is one. Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020.

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