Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 31, 2019

The scale is extraordinary. The wave of SaaS companies that built themselves on the likes of AWS and Azure have reinforced the pre-eminence of cloud computing. Here, we trace some of the biggest trends and stories in technology over the past decade, and try to find a narrative to make sense of it all. There are about 3.2

Payment Solutions 259

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Software SaaS Payments 259

Frontegg

MAY 27, 2021

Product-Led Growth (PLG) is a consumer-centric scaling, conversion, and retention philosophy that uses the product itself as the primary growth driver. Founded : 2011 Known customers: Facebook, IBM, Microsoft, AWS, Unity, Udemy, Shopify Price starts at: $38/month per user. #2 Best For: Product Adoption. 8 Typeform.

Payment Solutions 98

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments Scale 98

OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 17, 2019

High gross margins together with high customer retention rates for a SaaS company at scale contribute to higher valuations, up to 20X or even 30X revenues in today’s market. Early-stage SaaS companies typically are not as concerned about Gross Margin as companies at scale. Have SaaS Gross Margins Improved Over Time?

Scale 40

Scale SaaS AWS Revenue 40

SaaStr

JULY 20, 2021

It’s a brutal, awful slog in the start. I would say, it’s always good to call out just how awful it is to be a founder, to be an entrepreneur, because that is a unique perspective that you bring to the board room that no one else shares. That sounds like an awful idea,” and then you have to work for it.

Underperforming Technical Team 239

Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring AWS Business Model 239

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

We’ve all seen AWS and what they’ve done with their platform. Even at spectacular scale, they’re still growing at 30%. Law number one, in the cloud economy, scale wins. If you look at the IAS vendors, they passed $130 billion revenue milestone this year. It is staggering. Let’s dive in.

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Sales Hiring Scale Payments Cloud 153

SaaStr

OCTOBER 3, 2019

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. You can see 2007 to 2008 we went from one to two. Keep at it because you can see here how long it took us to really reach scale and obviously in the end it turned out to be a wonderful outcome.

SaaS 143

SaaS Sales Hiring Scale Innovation 143