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SaaStr’s Most Respected Leaders Awards 2019: The Top Ten

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YC has funded over 1,900 startups since 2005 including Airbnb, coinbase, Dropbox, Stripe, Flexport, instacart and reddit. His session focused on scaling an open culture. Jay Simons rose up the ranks from Area Sales Manager with Plumtree software to VP of Product Marketing and Strategy. Y Combinator is a seed accelerator.

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

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Ten years ago, no one would have guessed Europe would generate the largest software IPO globally, yet UiPath has done it, and net retention is 144%. At SaaStr Europa, UiPath’s Dines shared five insights from growing a company from nothing, so other founders can learn what it takes to scale a SaaS startup to $1B+ ARR.

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Norman Crowley on uncovering the business opportunities in tackling climate change

Intercom, Inc.

We got the idea from about 2005, a friend of mine became obsessed with climate change. What sort of results are you seeing for enterprise companies at that scale? And then on the positive side, our software business increased five fold in size last year. And we sold that to Rupert Murdoch in 2011 for about 80 million bucks.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Justin Bedecarre, Jen Nguyen, Jason Lemkin, and Aaron Levie

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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. Are you building software differently than you have for the last 15 years?