Remove 2007 Remove CTO Hire Remove Data Remove Scaling
article thumbnail

Busting the Myths About Startup Success with BlackLine’s Founder CEO (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

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. 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. background music].

Startup 271
article thumbnail

My First 16: Welding Yourself to Early Customers with Marqeta’s Jason Gardner

Andreessen Horowitz

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.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

PODCAST 93: The Journey from 2x Founder to VC with Angus Davis

Sales Hacker

SMB Sales & SDRs at (Smaller) Scale [18:20]. 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.

article thumbnail

Taking a $4B Company from Consumer to B2B with Pluralsight (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And from about 2007 till 2010 we bootstrapped and built the first version of the Pluralsight you see today. The evidence that made it super clear in the end was that we were not closing big deals with technology buyers at scale. So, let me walk you through that. We’re going to change things. Where’s the skills gap?

B2B 134