SaaStr

MARCH 8, 2025

Co-founder and CTO Karim Atiyah came to SaaStr Annual to share how they got this rocketship … off the ground. Back in 2021 though, Ramp was just 2 years in — but already experiencing hypergrowth. That’s an incredible advantage.” Optimize for quality investors and clean terms over valuation.

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BetterCloud

AUGUST 6, 2021

So, 2006 or 2007. ” At that time, I said, “You know what, I think I really want to become a CIO or CTO.” When I decided I wanted to be a CIO or CTO , I was an associate director or what other companies might call a junior director. Or have you always wanted to manage and mentor people ?

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

It’s not like I just go … I can’t just go to my CTO and go, “Do that,” and he goes, “Yep. Back in the day in 2007, maybe no one was going to give you 10 million in the seed round. Jason Lemkin: Let me just hear you as a mentor give us these four takeaways. I’m going to go do that.”

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

He then founded Tellme Networks, sold that in 2007 for $900 million to Microsoft. A couple weeks into my summer internship at Netscape, I met a guy named Mike McCue who really became my mentor at Netscape. We were part of the office of the CTO. It was acquired by Microsoft in 2007 for about 900 million.

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SaaStr

JULY 28, 2021

I retired from SunGard Treasury Systems as their CTO. He’s not necessarily interested in putting in the work that’s necessary or getting the coaching or the feedback that he needs. 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 Even BlackLine.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 2, 2020

I retired from SunGard Treasury Systems as their CTO. He’s not necessarily interested in putting in the work that’s necessary or getting the coaching or the feedback that he needs. 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 Turned out it became who I am.

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