SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2023

And we ended the day with an incredible combo of the hottest app at that time (and one of the hottest ever), Slack, who likely was around $30m ARR or so … and hadn’t yet added a sales team! In a kind of analogous way, everyone uses the Internet now, which wasn’t true certainly, when we started Flickr, in late 2003.

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

And by 2003 we were almost out of business. And I thank a lot of that to actually Met Gourniak, who I hired at that time. And I started as an engineer and as an MBA and frankly in business school back then they didn’t even have a class on sales. We’re starting to having lay people off.” And no boring demos.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 13, 2025

In 2003, Michael founded Right Media – the world’s first open exchange for digital advertising. They work with startups and scaling businesses to help take HR off your plate, so you can stay focused on building product, growing revenue, and hiring great people – the go-to-market engine. Thats where TriNet comes in.

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SaaStr

APRIL 24, 2020

It started back in 2003, when I joined Omniture, which was an analytics company founded here in Utah. It was back when you used different words for it, things like managed software or application service provider. John Mellor: And that year, when I joined in 2003, Omniture did $8 million in revenue.

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SaaStr

APRIL 25, 2019

So, I joined Google early on in 2003. The first engineer that I sat next to … And I was in sales. We were always building a full platform that a sales or a support organization could go and buy. In my past career I was running sales organizations who are used to having a target and having a team.

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SaaStr

JULY 15, 2020

Last month, housing sales in the US are actually ahead of last year, like literally ahead. I think it’s more overall more like 2000 to 2003 in Silicon Valley, but there’ll be some industries and celebrated goals that either aren’t effected as much or snap back very quickly. Somehow this defies logic but is true.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 28, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Steven Broudy , Vice President and Head of Sales at Bevy, which helps companies build virtual communities. Steven is a long time SaaS sales executive, having worked at MuleSoft before coming to Bevy. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. We’re on iTunes.

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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. What specifically distinguishes eventual winners? They invested substantially in R&D instead of dialing back.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 16, 2019

Ep 257: Justin Welsh is the former SVP Sales @ PatientPop, the startup that offers the first all-in-one practice growth platform that’s HIPAA-compliant and is proven to grow your practice. During his 5 years at PatientPop, Justin grew sales from $0 to $56m alongside the full build-out of the sales team. Justin Welsh: Yeah.

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