Andreessen Horowitz
DECEMBER 4, 2023
To improve the efficiency of spend on cost of goods sold (COGS), most growth-stage leaders can optimize seat-based spend or renegotiate consumption-based contracts in a quarter or 2. Imagine if, in 2007, Netflix decided to follow the 70–20–10 rule. And finding inefficiencies in overhead (e.g.,
Andreessen Horowitz
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
We sold that at the end of 2007 and I stayed on with MoneyGram International who acquired the company until the end of 2009. Did you know that, or did you sort of stumble upon it or did you end up co building saying, okay, I know these guys need a card, we’ll figure out that just in time product with this customer.
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SaaStr
JULY 28, 2021
We’ve convinced more than a thousand great big companies to put their financial data into our private cloud. I retired from SunGard Treasury Systems as their CTO. 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 Transcript: [background music].
Sales Hacker
JANUARY 21, 2020
He then founded Tellme Networks, sold that in 2007 for $900 million to Microsoft. In 1995, while a high school student Rhode Island he was an early employee at Intelecom Data Systems, one of America’s first commercial internet service providers and website developers. We were part of the office of the CTO.
SaaStr
JANUARY 14, 2020
And from about 2007 till 2010 we bootstrapped and built the first version of the Pluralsight you see today. That was when we realized we had to go hire some experienced enterprise go-to-market leaders, like Heather Zynczak who runs marketing at Pluralsight. We’re going to change things. I think she’s on stage tomorrow.
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