OpenView Labs

JULY 21, 2021

Behind The Cloud by Marc Benioff (Published 2009). From the cover to the title, Behind the Cloud is set up to be a perfect runway read. The chances are high that SaaS companies that have reached Salesforce’s scale follow the same pattern (regardless of whether they’re following Benioff’s advice).

Business 101

Business Artificial Intelligence Blockchain Software Engineering 101

SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2021

Today, Veeva is at $45B Cloud juggernaut dominating pharma and life science Cloud applications. We’re building the industry cloud for life sciences, so our customers are people like Pfizer and Novartis, etc., We provide a variety of cloud solutions for them. that are making medicine to help improve life.

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SaaStr

APRIL 25, 2019

With one startup acquired by Yahoo in 2005, another acquired by Google in 2007 and a background as an M&A lawyer, Craig’s perspective on M&A is insightful for any startup founder looking to acquire another company. You then started another voice company, which was acquired by Google in 2007. But it worked out.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

And to do this, you’ve got to scale it through your managers. As a startup, we covered a lot of processes together really quickly out of necessity and we haven’t really had time or the wherewithal to go back to them and harden them for scaling. And all of you are very fortunate, many of you are cloud native companies.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 7, 2022

“As cloud and SaaS companies were starting to erupt and take off and get funding, we started to see this dilemma of customers churning” It was in 2007, which is not that long ago, but when we think about technology, that was eons ago. 2007 was when the iPhone was launched and when LinkedIn finally became profitable.

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Customer Success Technical Review Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 118

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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SmartKarrot

JUNE 22, 2023

Microsoft launched OneNote in 2003, and it became a part of its Microsoft Office suite in 2007. Cloud storage OneNote stores all the information, notebooks, and support documents, on the cloud. To see how SmartKarrot helps B2B companies streamline and scale customer success, Request a Demo.

Artificial Intelligence 10

Artificial Intelligence AI Search Underperforming Technical Team Machine Learning 10

SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Founded: 2007. To do so, Uberflip offers them the ability to create, manage, personalize and optimize content experiences at scale. Comscore combines intelligence from various media sources coupled with vast demographic information to accurately quantify consumers’ behavior at a massive scale. . Based in: New York.

SaaS Payments 271

SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 271

SaaStr

JULY 28, 2021

We’ve convinced more than a thousand great big companies to put their financial data into our private cloud. 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?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 2, 2020

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? 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

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 28, 2018

When I moved to Silicon Valley in 2007, self-serve software was all the rage. For one, it scales beautifully. Phil, Close.io’s Head of Product, once described this as “the big money-making machine in the clouds.”. When software and service aren’t equal priorities, it’s impossible to build a successful company.

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Scale Sales Hiring SaaS Sales 184

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

About the episode: Mark Suster is Managing Partner at Upfront Ventures which he joined in 2007, having previously worked with Upfront for nearly 8 years as a two-time entrepreneur. What changes as a SaaS business scales? Previously, Dave was SVP/GM of Service Cloud at Salesforce and CEO at unstructured big data provider MarkLogic.

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Technical Review Development Team Review Scale Software Review 137

Frontegg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The specification, which has the support of various cloud providers, including Microsoft and Google, is believed to provide a way for organizations to replace their on-premise access management (IAM) and identity systems with cloud offerings. was initially released in 2007 as an authorization method for the Twitter API.

Mobile 144

Mobile PayPal Identity management Cloud 144

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Learn what it takes to create your own category, achieve scale in a niche SaaS vertical and how it requires more than just discovering an unmet need. 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. Want to see more content like this?

Scale 167

Scale SMB VP of Engineering Leadership 167

SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Founded: 2007. To do so, Uberflip offers them the ability to create, manage, personalize and optimize content experiences at scale. Comscore combines intelligence from various media sources coupled with vast demographic information to accurately quantify consumers’ behavior at a massive scale. . Based in: New York.

SaaS Payments 100

SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 100

SaaStr

MAY 17, 2019

As for Godard, he founded his first business, BigMachines, in 2000, a business he scaled to $50m in revenue and over 300 people up until it’s acquisition to Oracle 11 years later for $400m. Where does Godard believe that things really start to break down in the scaling of an organisation? I love that frugal scaling.

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Scale Sales Hiring Software Review Leadership 146

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. How should we redesign how work gets done to meet a changing talent landscape and scale a self-funding automation program?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Plus, from 2007 until 2013, Karen ran all of Box’s business development, partnership, and strategic alliance activities. What were Karen’s biggest takeaways from seeing the hyper-scaling at Box? Plus from 2007 until 2013, Karen ran all of Box’s business development, partnership and strategic alliance activities.

Scale 169

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Point Nine Land

OCTOBER 22, 2019

How Clio grew from a lifestyle business into a legal tech juggernaut From bootstrapping growth to securing a $250 million funding round, Clio is a lesson in how to scale a company without abandoning its roots. Again, this was 2007. Salesforce was less than a decade old and cloud computing was still considered an emerging technology.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Scale Sales Hiring Business 40

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

SMB Sales & SDRs at (Smaller) Scale [18:20]. He then founded Tellme Networks, sold that in 2007 for $900 million to Microsoft. It was acquired by Microsoft in 2007 for about 900 million. SMB Sales & SDRs at (Smaller) Scale [18:20]. Show Introduction [00:09]. About Angus Davis & Foundation Capital [1:45].

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Payment Methods Scale CTO Coach SMB 55

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Why press isn’t something he stressed when scaling and neither should you. It’s going to change how everyone thinks about cloud and SaaS for ever. Jason Lemkin: But it does help for recruiting and other things as you scale, doesn’t it? I’m more excited about the future than I have been about the past.

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Acquisition Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring 125

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.

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Payment Methods Merchant Services Payments Payment Services 134

Sales Hacker

JUNE 30, 2020

It is really a mandatory must-have part of your toolkit if you’re managing any kind of sales team at scale. Relocated to Chicago early in 2007, as you said earlier. It can help your sales teams increase their pipeline win rates and deal sizes. For better or worse LinkedIn has the product that you need.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Artificial Intelligence Travel 77

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. We were succeeding at large scale.

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SaaStr

JULY 22, 2019

Hear from Roger Scott, New Relic’s EVP and Chief Customer Officer as he shares his 7 tips and tricks for keeping your customers happy— and how to do so at a large scale. And I wanted to share a little bit of my experience and the company’s experiences of building the company to a scale that we are today. Good afternoon.

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Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 165

SmartKarrot

JANUARY 28, 2022

Adaptive Shield is a SaaS company that offers a security posture management platform that is used to help organizations manage and secure their cloud services. Cato Networks offers network security management software that is hosted in the cloud. Orca Security is a company that offers security solutions for cloud infrastructure.

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