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The 18 Awesome Women of SaaS in Asia

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In 2018, she founded Work In Progress, a hub that connects professionals and fosters a coaching culture. Bai Xue believed in the internet – and in 2003 she did the unthinkable: she quit a secure and well-paid job at Panasonic to join the startup movement. And then she studied software development at Fullstack Academy.

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

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Namely is an HR software company that offers HR, payroll, benefits and talent management tools to businesses. Elisa Steele is the CEO of Namely and board member of Splunk, Cornerstone OnDemand as well as an advisor to Tile and People.ai. She later joined Jive Software as President and CEO before going on to Namely.

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

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They were building time and expense software. But my co-founders has done an amazing job, creating a scale platform that now has 600,000 reviews and 3 million SaaS software buyers coming every month looking for products like yours. And by 2003 we were almost out of business. We’re starting to having lay people off.”