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Three Secrets to a Successful Acquisition

SaaStr

In 2005, eBay spent $2.6 One of the most notorious examples of a post-M&A culture misfit is the 2005 merger of Kansas-based Sprint and Nextel. in 2005), recently acquired TalkIQ, a leader in the artificial intelligence and machine learning, and our shared culture and values have been a key factor to the success of this deal.

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Scaling a SaaS Startup to $1B+ ARR: Insights from UiPath’s CEO and Founder (Podcast +Video)

SaaStr

Join us as we uncover lessons from UiPath’s success in creating a new category within RPA Enterprise Automation – Robotic Process Automation – while navigating the challenges inherent in digital transformation powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies.

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A Look Back: Everything Breaks When You Go Into Hypergrowth Mode, with UiPath’s CMO (Europa Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

2005: Started as a tech outsourcing company. Bobby: I think what’s interesting is there were some AI terms earlier thrown around about AI is this, the CIO of United Health Group said at a dinner that he will not allow anyone in his team to say the words AI and machine learning in a sentence if they can’t say ROI in the same year.

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The Innovations Free Compute and Storage Unleash

Tom Tunguz

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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Top Global SaaS Trends You Should Know with Google Cloud and Zenoss (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Traditionally we’ve been around since 2005 and traditionally have been a software on-prem business. In the last two years there have been so many new services around security, around machine learning that literally did not exist. Your engineers actually don’t need to know the depth of machine learning.

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Etsy goes cloud native to better scale to seasonal demands

IT World

Etsy was founded in 2005, well into the internet era but long before the explosion of public cloud services. The firm went public in 2015 and soon afterward made cloud migration a priority, so that it could scale its services without having to make big expensive hardware purchases up front, and to better leverage machine learning techniques.

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Salesforce’s Mike Kreaden on how to build a platform to drive growth

Intercom, Inc.

Machine learning can get the right message or recommendation out in a responsive way – not just from the customer’s next best action, but from the sales perspective, too. 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.

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