SaaStr

JULY 28, 2021

I retired from SunGard Treasury Systems as their CTO. ” Cannot put a price on that. He’s not necessarily interested in putting in the work that’s necessary or getting the coaching or the feedback that he needs. Some just needed a coach. I really tried and never lose a game of chicken. Even BlackLine.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 2, 2020

I retired from SunGard Treasury Systems as their CTO. Cannot put a price on that. 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

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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

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

What does pricing and packaging look like? 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. What does everything else look like? I’m going to go do that.”

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