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Employee Spotlight: Bill Wilson, Senior Director of Product and Kite Designer

FastSpring

In about 2002, I got into more of a leadership position for satellite offices of larger companies. In 2007, I decided to build my first company, MindSea, and in 2018 I went on to start SalesRight. But I do enjoy running an awful lot. My first job in tech was in 1998 as a software developer. I started with Java 0.9

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The decade software ate the world

Intercom, Inc.

The wave of SaaS companies that built themselves on the likes of AWS and Azure have reinforced the pre-eminence of cloud computing. Apple survived the death of Steve Jobs in October 2011 under the thoughtful stewardship of Tim Cook, and continued to essentially be the iPhone company, while branching into wearables and services. .

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Key Lessons from a $5B SaaS Category Leader (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And those of us and those of you who are involved in these companies, even the successful ones look an awful lot more like this. They pioneered things like content marketing, thought leadership. You can see 2007 to 2008 we went from one to two. Challenges, mistakes, problems, surprises, every step of the way.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Byron Deeter, Elliott Robinson, Henry Schuck, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

We’ve all seen AWS and what they’ve done with their platform. Leadership can really turn around really any area of the company.” You just don’t have the right leadership or structure to get there often. I bootstrapped the company with my co-founder in 2007. It is staggering. One other one on this.