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Veeva: The Biggest Vertical SaaS Success Story of All Time (Video + Transcript)

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Today, Veeva is at $45B Cloud juggernaut dominating pharma and life science Cloud applications. If you don’t have tickets, lock in Early Bird pricing today and bring your team! We’re building the industry cloud for life sciences, so our customers are people like Pfizer and Novartis, etc., Get tickets here.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Jennifer Tejada, Ben Chestnut, and Jason Lemkin

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I’ve been in software since the ’90s and for over 20 years, nearly that entire time, we’ve been talking about digital transformation, developing strategies, architecting new technologies, and moving beyond digitization to rethinking our businesses, our products, and our services in a way that’s optimized for a digital world.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Byron Deeter, Elliott Robinson, Henry Schuck, and Jason Lemkin

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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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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. My marketing team wanted me to do the world’s most boring video. Even after we did our pivot to the accounting automation and optimization, we still had desperate moments. year sales cycles.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with B Capital Group and Bessemer Venture Partners — February 7, 2020

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Prior to joining the world of venture, Karen was a Senior Director at Apple and before Apple, Karen spent an incredible 9 years at Box as a founding member of the executive team, where she was responsible for defining and leading Box’s Industry GTM strategy. Karen Page: I started my career in sales and marketing.

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How to Build a $18B+ Success Story Far Away from Silicon Valley with Adyen (Video + Transcript)

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So it’s a good number, especially unique for cloud companies. I grew up in the Netherlands, people in Germany, people are being taught when they’re young to stay away from credit, it’s a bad thing, you want to avoid it. That’s been a major focus. Okay, this is what we’re going to work on.

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The Things Nobody Tells You About An $8B Acquisition with Ryan Smith from Qualtrics (Video + Transcript)

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It’s going to change how everyone thinks about cloud and SaaS for ever. And we were about a $50 million sales run rate, but I’d never done a media interview. And the team deck doesn’t say who the CEO is? For the first 10 years when we didn’t do one media interview and we got to 50 million in sales.