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From $800k to $274M in 4 Years - The Story of Ariba

Tom Tunguz

Before its acquisition, which was consummated at the highest historical multiple of any software company , Ariba was the largest independent procurement software business. It sold software to help businesses buy the things they need in order to operate, everything from pens to planes.

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The impact of the cloud and PaaS on marketing

Practical Advice on SaaS marketing

Though "the Rouge" continued to operate as an assembly plant until 2004 when one last convertible Mustang GT rolled off the line in May of that year, Ford had decades earlier moved to a more decentralized manufacturing process. The evolution of application software development Application software development is on a similar path.

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