Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 4, 2023

To improve the efficiency of spend on cost of goods sold (COGS), most growth-stage leaders can optimize seat-based spend or renegotiate consumption-based contracts in a quarter or 2. Imagine if, in 2007, Netflix decided to follow the 70–20–10 rule. And finding inefficiencies in overhead (e.g.,

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BetterCloud

AUGUST 6, 2021

I also knew that it wouldn’t be something that I’d get bored with over time. So, 2006 or 2007. ” At that time, I said, “You know what, I think I really want to become a CIO or CTO.” I really learned from the managers who came before me, including the person who hired me.

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SaaStr

JULY 28, 2021

We’ve convinced more than a thousand great big companies to put their financial data into our private cloud. I retired from SunGard Treasury Systems as their CTO. In fact, one of our decisions in 2007, we had to decide, are we going to sell SaaS or are we going to be an on?prem Transcript: [background music].

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SaaStr

AUGUST 2, 2020

I retired from SunGard Treasury Systems as their CTO. In fact, one of our decisions, in 2007, we had to decide, are we going to sell SaaS or are we going to be an on?prem It is much more painful to have to fire people and contract as a company than it is to grow. I really try to never lose a game of chicken.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

He then founded Tellme Networks, sold that in 2007 for $900 million to Microsoft. We were part of the office of the CTO. At that time, Marc Andreessen, the founder was the CTO of the company and there were only three of us in the group. It was acquired by Microsoft in 2007 for about 900 million.

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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.

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