SaaStr

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Customers range from AWS skills-builder platforms with billions of users to Zoom using it for customers and employees. Docebo was started and funded in 2005 and became a SaaS player in 2012. The bigger you scale, the harder this can be. Leadership injections as you scale are tricky. Let’s dive into it.

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Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

AWS has decreased prices for EC2, elastic compute cloud, and S3, simple storage service, 42 times in eight years. The first manifestation of large scale, near-free compute I’ve seen is in machine learning. When I worked at Google in 2005, we would test individual machine learning models one or two at a time.

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2020

” When I took the helm at Evernote in 2005, many people had written the company off. We know about Zoom and we know about Slack and we even know about AWS, but look at these other categories. If you recall, it was one of the very first unicorns. The second is what I call establishing ground truth. E-commerce is on fire.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

Justin Bedecarre: And then another client of ours is an international company that has decided that they truly want to scale up in San Francisco. We don’t know when we’re going to be able to get safely back at scale. Is AWS in the lead? And they’re going to reduce their commute by 45 minutes.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 24, 2019

We’re helping startups and scale-ups that are strategically aligned with Salesforce, which is actually very important in terms of actually delivering solutions. So in 2005 when we announced the AppExchange, we actually had at that point 70 applications that would then be ready for launch in January. Marc is always wanting more.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Cassie is an operating partner at Primary Venture Partners, where she works closely with Primary’s portfolio companies to help them build, scale and optimize their go-to-market efforts. In 2005 I co-founded Altify, a Dublin-based global SaaS business focusing on sales and sales best practices. Cassie Young. Jenny Vance.

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