Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

I had a moment of clarity in 2003, a very long time ago, where I realized I was contributing to the mass destruction of the planet by producing products that were the highly disposable at the time: battery packs and stuff that was just protecting a couple of four AA batteries. Gerry: I’ve always been interested in industrial design.

Systems Review 112

Systems Review Scale Consulting Travel 112

OPEXEngine

MAY 19, 2020

Headed into the global financial crisis a decade ago, a group of almost 3,900 companies worldwide that we ran through Bain’s Sustained Value Creators analysis posted double-digit earnings growth, on average, from 2003 to 2007.

Scale 59

Scale Strategy Technical Review Acquisition 59

The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Urban legends tell the tale of the origins of the TLDR dating back to as far as 2003, which for modern day tweens are ancient times. Thought leadership takes time. The emergence of the TL;DR is a hidden SEO bonus The “TLDR” has been widely adopted as a blogging trick of the trade as of late. So you might as well embrace it.

Content Marketing 40

Content Marketing Strategy Marketing Growth Hacking 40

SaaStr

JULY 17, 2020

I think it’s more overall more like 2000 to 2003 in Silicon Valley, but there’ll be some industries and some verticals that either aren’t affected as much or snap back very quickly. Keith Rabois: No, I think it’s going to be more inconsistent. I think by segment.

Venture Capital 171

Venture Capital Travel PayPal Scale 171

SaaStr

APRIL 24, 2020

How does John think about the role of leadership in a crisis such as this? Where does John believe many leadership teams go wrong in times such as this? How can leadership teams ensure that a crisis is not self-fulfilling and how can one prevent that mindset? You’ve got executive people who want thought leadership.

Scale 210

Scale Leadership Strategy Technology 210

SaaStr

APRIL 25, 2019

So, I joined Google early on in 2003. And that trickles down to … We had our conversation with our leadership team, a couple of the director level and VPs, and then it trickled down to the next step of managing that. Dan O’Connell: Yeah. It’s funny. The first engineer that I sat next to … And I was in sales.

Acquisition 144

Acquisition Technical Review Systems Review AI 144

SmartKarrot

JUNE 22, 2023

Today’s super dynamic B2B environment mandates everyone in the leadership to be more innovative to get things done! Microsoft launched OneNote in 2003, and it became a part of its Microsoft Office suite in 2007. That’s where note-taking and task-management apps enter. Currently, OneNote is offered as a bundle with Windows 10 and 11.

Artificial Intelligence 10

Artificial Intelligence AI Search Underperforming Technical Team Machine Learning 10

Kellblog

JUNE 7, 2020

Market your category leadership. Thus, paradoxically, you likely would have been “dead right” as a BI vendor if you rejected the inclusion of financial planning in 2003. [10] You created a category, you’re presumably the market share leader in the category, and now your job is to make sure you stay that way.

Scale 105

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Finance 105

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Sam Jacobs: We are incredibly excited today to have a friend and rising star amongst thought leadership in the world of high growth companies. I came out of school in 2003 and really for the first six years of my career, I was pretty much what you would label a complete failure. About Justin Welsh & The Official Justin [1:50].

Sales Hiring 52

Sales Hiring Revenue Scale Underperforming Technical Team 52

SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

And by 2003 we were almost out of business. But then I met this conscious leadership guru Jim Detmar through some YPO friends, and he started just having me work on my own awareness. And so by the end of that first year I started to realize, “Oh, wow we’re starting to have problems. ” We had to do that three times.

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Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Payments 165

SaaStr

JUNE 11, 2019

Keith : So from 2003 to 2013 before I joined Khosla Ventures, I was a pretty active angel investor in Silicon Valley. Let’s shift now to the dynamics, or rather the stages of the startup, right? What’s the smallest deal you’ve done? Because you’ve done a lot of angel investments in your time as well.

Merchant Services 226

Merchant Services Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Scale 226

Sales Hacker

JULY 28, 2020

What great leadership looks like [31:37]. What was interesting to me was … this was 2003, we were in the midst of the war in Afghanistan. What great leadership looks like [31:37]. Sam Jacobs: What do you think great leadership looks like, Steven? How to thrive when exposed to difficult situations [16:22].

Sales Hiring 61

Sales Hiring Scale Interviewing Leadership 61

SaaStr

JUNE 23, 2019

Keith : So from 2003 to 2013 before I joined Khosla Ventures, I was a pretty active angel investor in Silicon Valley. Let’s shift now to the dynamics, or rather the stages of the startup, right? What’s the smallest deal you’ve done? Because you’ve done a lot of angel investments in your time as well.

Merchant Services 192

Merchant Services Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Scale 192

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. Matt’s been in the game for 20 years, and throughout that time WordPress and Automattic, and even what it means to publish, have expanded and evolved.

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Underperforming Technical Team Social Media Government Subscription 272

SaaStr

MAY 30, 2019

We sold that to IBM in 2003, and it was a fantastic experience. So, at the end of that day, as a leadership team, we gathered and we said, as horrible as today is, there are lessons that we will take from today. We built that business to about $800 million. That was perpetual license software. It makes a huge difference. Setting goals.

Scale 138

Scale Leadership Finance Software Review 138