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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. 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 Venture capitals are playing a numbers game.

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

Sales Hacker

He then founded Tellme Networks, sold that in 2007 for $900 million to Microsoft. Now he’s a partner making investments on the VC side at Foundation Capital, but has over 20 years of operational experience. Angus Davis: Foundation Capital is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm.