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The Future of AI Is Amazing

Andreessen Horowitz

And during that 70 years, it, by every metric, has been a huge success. in 2003, Sebastian Thrun had just won the DARPA Grand Challenge, right? ” Like, autonomous vehicle is a solved problem back in 2003. I probably took my first AI course in the late ’90s. It’s been up and to the right.

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Benchmarking Tableau's S-1 - How 7 Key SaaS Metrics Stack Up

Tom Tunguz

Founded in 2003, Tableau followed a more gradual revenue growth curve than the median SaaS company. As mentioned above, these small initial deployments ultimately lead to much larger enterprise licenses measuring at least in the five figures and the pricing is part-and-parcel of the land and expand strategy.

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Benchmarking Hubspot's S-1 - How 7 Key SaaS Metrics Stack Up

Tom Tunguz

HubSpot’s target customer base are SMBs and with this price point, it’s possible to support a profitable inside sales model if the team is very efficient. DATA 2003 10 232. HubSpot’s average revenue per customer (ARPC) of about $7,752 is the fourth smallest of the companies I analyzed. RNG 1999 14 162. CTCT 2007 9 31.

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Breaking Down the Ultimate Question – NPS

ChurnZero

Net Promoter Score was first developed by Fred Reichheld, Bain & Company and Satmetrix in 2003. Since then it has been used heavily by companies, both large and small, to assess customer satisfaction and has become an important metric for growth-driven technology businesses. Anatomy of a Detractor.

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The Best NPS Tools & Software + How to Use Them to Cut Churn by Up To 30%

User Pilot

So since Reicheld published his seminal Harvard Business Review article “ The One Number You Need to Grow ” in 2003 – NPS rapidly grew to prominence. And since it’s such a popular metric – it’s easy to check how your company is doing compared to other companies in your sector. This comes at a price though: SaatisMeter.

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A Look Back: Slack at $30,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

In a kind of analogous way, everyone uses the Internet now, which wasn’t true certainly, when we started Flickr, in late 2003. Jason : When I’m from… pick your company, Dow, and I want to buy 1,000 or 2,000 seats of Slack next year, I’m not going to talk to a sales rep, and I’m going to pay a list price?

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Keith Rabois and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

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. But we’ll still put up 2X even with COVID, which by most metrics that’s a pretty good year. I think by segment.