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

SaaStr

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. When you find the right partner, the right investor, what they can do in terms of helping you grow and scale a company is just invaluable. background music].

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

SaaStr

I retired from SunGard Treasury Systems as their CTO. When you find the right partner, the right investor, what they can do in terms of helping you grow and scale a company is just invaluable. You have to learn things like how do I scale my sales force? I really try to never lose a game of chicken. Turned out it became who I am.

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

SaaStr

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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PODCAST 93: The Journey from 2x Founder to VC with Angus Davis

Sales Hacker

SMB Sales & SDRs at (Smaller) Scale [18:20]. 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. Sam’s Corner [41:10].