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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. 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 background music].

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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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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. So there’s a lot of kind of, I don’t know, dogma in venture capital.

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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 the team deck doesn’t say who the CEO is? We called ourselves a team of four, actually, who operate and make decisions, and it’s just how we rolled. You mean overwhelmed by too much capital? We’re just getting started.