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Busting the Myths About Startup Success with BlackLine’s Founder CEO (Video + Transcript)

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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. Even after we did our pivot to the accounting automation and optimization, we still had desperate moments. year sales cycles. background music].

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SaaStr Podcast #357 with BlackLine CEO & Founder Therese Tucker: “Busting the Myths About Startup Success”

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I retired from SunGard Treasury Systems as their CTO. Even after we did our pivot to the accounting automation and optimization, we still had desperate moments. year sales cycles. You have to learn things like how do I scale my sales force? How do we sell to accountants? Therese Tucker: Turned out I liked it.

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Taking a $4B Company from Consumer to B2B with Pluralsight (Video + Transcript)

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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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