Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Founded in 2007, Dropbox epitomizes the freemium go-to-market. This decrease is driven by user policy changes that affect users who have been inactive for a year or more, and a shift to operating their own data centers instead of using cloud providers. Dropbox has grown from 0 to 500 million users over that time period.

Scale 214

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SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2021

Today, Veeva is at $45B Cloud juggernaut dominating pharma and life science Cloud applications. We’re building the industry cloud for life sciences, so our customers are people like Pfizer and Novartis, etc., We provide a variety of cloud solutions for them. that are making medicine to help improve life.

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SaaStr

MAY 15, 2019

About Mikkel… According to Mikkel “the cloud’s biggest days are yet to come”, his stories of a time when “the cloud” wasn’t exactly the reality it is today inspired SaaStr attendees to heavily bookmark his session ahead of the event. Mikkel later founded Zendesk in 2007 while living in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Sales Recruiting 171

Sales Recruiting Software Review Technical Review PayPal 171

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

373: Bessemer’s 5th Annual State of the Cloud Report returns for a definitive look at the cloud industry today. We want to take you through the cloud journey over the last several years. Now, the cloud index fell along with it. If you go back to before 2014, what you see is the power of the cloud.

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SaaStr

MAY 22, 2019

from 2007-2011 which eventually became Twitch. The company pivoted to cloud-based software in 2013 and counts Chubb, the City of Chicago and Burr Forman among its customers. YC has funded over 1,900 startups since 2005 including Airbnb, coinbase, Dropbox, Stripe, Flexport, instacart and reddit.

Scale 167

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The Angel VC

MAY 4, 2018

The mighty king of Freemium Like Zendesk, Yammer, and a few other SaaS companies that were all founded around 2007-2008, Dropbox was one of the early champions of the "consumerization of the enterprise" movement. Dark clouds on the horizon? Dropbox's one big weak spot, in my opinion, is that the product is almost UI-less.

Underperforming Technical Team 143

Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Systems Review Software Review 143

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

About the episode: Mark Suster is Managing Partner at Upfront Ventures which he joined in 2007, having previously worked with Upfront for nearly 8 years as a two-time entrepreneur. About the episode: Dave Kellogg is the CEO @ Host Analytics, the leader in cloud-based enterprise performance management (EPM). Episode No. Episode No.

Technical Review 201

Technical Review Development Team Review Software Review Scale 201

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 28, 2018

When I moved to Silicon Valley in 2007, self-serve software was all the rage. Phil, Close.io’s Head of Product, once described this as “the big money-making machine in the clouds.”. When software and service aren’t equal priorities, it’s impossible to build a successful company. For one, it scales beautifully.

Scale 184

Scale Sales Hiring SaaS Sales 184

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 14, 2020

During 2007, The Writers Guild of America (WGA), which represents over 12,000 writers for film and TV shows, tried to renegotiate their contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), representing more than 300 production companies. A walkout of practically all TV and movie writers started in November of 2007.

Payment Methods 137

Payment Methods Telecommunications Payment Services Payments 137

Frontegg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The specification, which has the support of various cloud providers, including Microsoft and Google, is believed to provide a way for organizations to replace their on-premise access management (IAM) and identity systems with cloud offerings. was initially released in 2007 as an authorization method for the Twitter API.

Mobile 144

Mobile PayPal Identity management Cloud 144

OpenView Labs

JULY 21, 2021

Behind The Cloud by Marc Benioff (Published 2009). From the cover to the title, Behind the Cloud is set up to be a perfect runway read. A year later, in 2007, Steve Jobs made the phone your browser. For that audience, Lencioni has written a how-to manual on building a cohesive team and a self-help book on communicating as one.

Business 105

Business Artificial Intelligence Blockchain Software Engineering 105

SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

That was when a new vision formed beyond the physical classroom to what would later become our cloud, where we can teach anyone anywhere the digital technology skills of the future. And from about 2007 till 2010 we bootstrapped and built the first version of the Pluralsight you see today. So, let me walk you through that.

B2B 173

B2B B2C Scale New CTO 173

Baremetrics

MARCH 30, 2021

Zuora Founded in 2007, Zuora is an enterprise billing and invoicing company that helps businesses launch and manage their subscription-based services. It is perfect for any cloud-based business of any size that manages subscriptions through product catalogs and multiple payment methods.

Payment Solutions 105

Payment Solutions Payment Features Payments Payment Methods 105

The Angel VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

So when 2007 turned to a close, we had an award-winning product with a loyal user base that was growing but wasn’t big enough and wasn’t growing fast enough in order to monetize the service effectively in the near term. Failure to do this is not only puts Pageflakes users in trouble, it also undermines users' trust in the cloud in general.

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Communication Cloud Startup Data 100

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 7, 2022

“As cloud and SaaS companies were starting to erupt and take off and get funding, we started to see this dilemma of customers churning” It was in 2007, which is not that long ago, but when we think about technology, that was eons ago. 2007 was when the iPhone was launched and when LinkedIn finally became profitable.

Customer Success 118

Customer Success Technical Review Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 118

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Identifying a clear purpose and vision becomes all the more important given the rapid evolution of the SaaS industry, whether it’s how fast the underlying cloud technology is changing, the massive transformation of the app economy, or the race to incorporate AI. Without a strong rudder, you risk your ship running aground. trillion and $15.4

Scale 118

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

When we actually did our market research, we found that 80% of physical therapists were still using and documenting on pen and paper back in 2007. It’s amazing what the efficiencies and the low costs of the cloud can allow you to do as far as industry specialization. We might have stumbled onto something here.

Scale 185

Scale SMB VP of Engineering Leadership 185

Stax

JULY 1, 2024

Wave Payroll Wave Payroll is a cloud-based, small business payroll provider offered by Wave Financial Inc. Patriot Payroll Patriot Payroll is a low-priced payroll software offered by Patriot Software, a company specializing in cloud-based payroll and accounting software.

Payment Solutions 88

Payment Solutions Payment Services Payment Methods Payments 88

SaaStr

JULY 22, 2019

We are the world’s most complete and comprehensive instrumentation platform on the marketplace today, that is cloud-based, that is SaaS-based. The company started back in 2007, 2008. When we started out, we built the company purely as a SaaS company. We didn’t ever have an on-prem solution.

Scale 230

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BetterCloud

AUGUST 6, 2021

So, 2006 or 2007. Zendesk was the first major piece of cloud technology that convinced us that we should just do it in the cloud. I also knew that it wouldn’t be something that I’d get bored with over time. When I started at Achievement First, there was the iPhone. When did that come out again?

Technology 98

Technology CTO Coach CTO Hire New CTO 98

User Pilot

JULY 30, 2023

Modern businesses can now choose from countless data platforms like NoSQL databases, cloud object storage, big data storage, and special-purpose databases depending on their specific needs. IT deployments. Due to the wide variety of software solutions, some data could fall through the cracks.

Data 98

Data Systems Review Software Review Company Culture 98

Neil Patel

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Since its launch in 2007, Dropbox has quickly become a market leader in cloud storage. Also, you can simply search for hashtags and see which posts get the most engagement. Contact the owners of those accounts to create marketing relationships. Create a Referral Program. The platform now has 700 million users , 15.48

Social Media 145

Social Media Strategy Marketing Business 145

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

It’s going to change how everyone thinks about cloud and SaaS for ever. Ryan Smith: And so we had to switch and we chose Qualtrics, and it was the best thing we’ve ever done because everything we ever wanted to do, pivot the company or get away from surveys, which in 2007 were like, “Whoa, this is way bigger.”

Acquisition 155

Acquisition Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring 155

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

is a software company that transforms sales operations into growth operations by providing sales-ops-as-a-service, combining the perfect blend of people, process, and cloud platform to accelerate sales organization growth. I was 22 in 2007. Quick Pitch: Fullcast.io ACV: $100,000. Sales Cycle Timeline: 90 days. Apple was at $18.

Development 75

Development Business Software Review Engagement 75

Neil Patel

APRIL 20, 2021

For example, you could give 1 – 10 GB free to customers who register your cloud storage solution, as pCloud does. BlendTec took a novel approach way back in 2007 with its “Will It Blend?” Oppenheimer estimated that Americans donate over $300 billion each year to charity. In each video in the “Will It Blend?”

Sales 141

Sales Outsourcing Services Marketplace as a Service Underperforming Technical Team 141

SaaStr

JUNE 20, 2019

So it’s a good number, especially unique for cloud companies. Split payment settlement directly to the artist, beautiful, but this was in 2007, the year Spotify just started. We were talking to a music platform that wanted to enable artists to sell directly to their fans and we were, we built a platform that could cater for that.

Payment Methods 155

Payment Methods Merchant Services Payments Payment Services 155

OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 23, 2019

The idea for JumpCloud presented itself in 2007 while I was working on another business. We knew we could deliver product innovation in the form of shifting the core identity provider to the cloud (something that hadn’t yet been done). Why did we ultimately decide to see the idea through?

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

He then founded Tellme Networks, sold that in 2007 for $900 million to Microsoft. It was acquired by Microsoft in 2007 for about 900 million. After graduating from high school in ’95 or ’96, he moved out to Mountain View to work at Netscape, the first massive modern internet success story with Marc Andreessen.

Payment Methods 60

Payment Methods Scale CTO Coach SMB 60

Point Nine Land

OCTOBER 22, 2019

For Jack Newton and Rian Gauvreau, the lightbulb moment that led to the creation of Clio came out of a casual conversation they had in 2007 with the director of practice standards at the Law Society of British Columbia, an organization that can be compared in function to the National Bar Association in the U.S. Again, this was 2007.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Scale Sales Hiring Business 40

How To Buy Saas

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Besides bulk messaging, Sendwo caters to your needs with a wide range of features like automated responses, chatbots, bulk contact list export, message scheduling, multiple accounts, cloud import, and more! This is why it is one of the best small business marketing tools. Then ActiveCampaign is a perfect pick!

Social Media 52

Social Media Marketing Business AI Search 52

OPEXEngine

JANUARY 24, 2023

It’s a pattern that can be seen across the 2007–09 recession, the recovery that followed, the slow-growth years of 2011–19, and even during the pandemic period of 2020–21. In fact, the top-quartile TSR performers outpace the bottom-quartile companies more than twofold in both revenue growth and cost productivity.

VP of Engineering 52

VP of Engineering Underperforming Technical Team Scale Traceability 52

User Pilot

JUNE 24, 2024

Dropbox’s referral campaign Founded in 2007, Dropbox was one of the first online file storage platforms and still remains one of the key players in the cloud storage space. Thanks to the resource center, users can solve simple problems without relying on support agents, who are usually not available 24/7.

Strategy 59

Strategy Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Onboarding 59

Mucker Capital

OCTOBER 22, 2018

The first, launched in India in 2007 while they were teenagers, created radiology software that helped fight female foeticide. Salesforce has the cloud platform, and there are enterprise marketing platforms, but there’s no bracket you can put this in.’ She got really mad.”. But he managed to smooth things over.

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Interviewing Consulting Social Media Government 40

Sales Hacker

JUNE 30, 2020

Relocated to Chicago early in 2007, as you said earlier. The trick is that any one person’s perspective on you is also clouded by their own feelings, their own issues, their own baggage, but the aggregate perspective of many different people is interesting and useful feedback.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 28, 2022

Adaptive Shield is a SaaS company that offers a security posture management platform that is used to help organizations manage and secure their cloud services. Cato Networks offers network security management software that is hosted in the cloud. Orca Security is a company that offers security solutions for cloud infrastructure.

SaaS Payments 10

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payment Services 10

SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

It is the model in which a cloud service provider hosts software or application and makes them available for the end-user. The cloud service provider can either be a third party or the software vendor itself. The emergence of cloud computing in the 1990’s enabled software to be installed on remote servers. contact-form-7].

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Its product AmbarEva is a cloud-based project management solution. The cloud-based eCommerce platform allows businesses to sell digital goods.It Nuvemshop’s Cloud Shop. Nuvemshop’s Cloud Shop is a cloud-based platform allowing merchants to build online stores and sell their products. Founded in: 2017.

Payment Methods 10

Payment Methods SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Services 10