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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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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.