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

JULY 28, 2021

With 3 full days of sessions, featuring over 300 speakers from the best SaaS companies around the world, SaaStr Annual will be filled with actionable thought leadership to help grow your business. We’ve convinced more than a thousand great big companies to put their financial data into our private cloud. background music].

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Startup CTO Hire Sales Hiring CTO Coach 269

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 169

Scale SMB VP of Engineering Leadership 169

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. Although TSR growth varies by industry, we see the same link between productivity leadership and high TSR across industries. Automation and digitization.

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VP of Engineering Underperforming Technical Team Traceability Scale 52

SaaStr

MAY 17, 2019

And that’s how we were able to then survive from 2002 til about 2007, when the cloud market finally took off. And that’s where I think a lot of founding people struggle, is you have to go from being a manager and being able to run one team to building a global, scalable, multi tiered leadership org.

Scale 149

Scale Sales Hiring Software Review Leadership 149

SaaStr

AUGUST 2, 2020

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 Terrifying, because back in those days, big companies didn’t even know what SaaS was, much less they weren’t going to put their financial information out in the cloud. prem software company?

Startup 154

Startup CTO Hire Scale CTO Coach 154

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Plus, from 2007 until 2013, Karen ran all of Box’s business development, partnership, and strategic alliance activities. Ep 306: Join Bessemer Venture Partners’ Alex Ferrara as he takes a look at trends and predictions for the cloud industry in 2019. How are they thinking about growing the company and the leadership team?

Scale 172

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Investment Sales Hiring 172

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.

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Technical Review Scale Sales Hiring Business 40

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

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.”

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Acquisition Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring 127

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 137

Payment Methods Merchant Services Payments Payment Services 137

Sales Hacker

MARCH 27, 2020

We build it in the cloud, API integrations, 99% up-time.” And then, from there we went into the suits slide, where we showed a lineup of head shots of our executive leadership team, all the years they had been in business, and why that made us the most qualified for the job. ” All those. ” Things like that.

Entertainment 73

Entertainment Sales Startup Strategy 73

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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B2B B2C Scale New CTO 132

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. We’re thinking already about what does that mean in terms of the leadership, the organizational structure that we need to have.

Scale 169

Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 169