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How to Retain Employees For 10+ Years with Alf Ruppert

FastSpring

But I mean, if you go back to 2006 2007 2008 like that, yeah, that was just not a thing that people did. What what do you think the danger is of being too focused on those types of venture capital type ideas. Like the way that we do it. Now we take it for granted now. Alf Ruppert Yes.

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

SaaStr

I’ve been in venture capital for about 20 years, made my first SaaS investment about 18 years ago and have really been focused on this space for a long time. I work at a firm called Shasta Ventures. You can see 2007 to 2008 we went from one to two. I’ll just do a quick introduction.

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