SaaStr

JULY 28, 2021

With 3 full days of sessions, featuring over 300 speakers from the best SaaS companies around the world, SaaStr Annual will be filled with actionable thought leadership to help grow your business. I retired from SunGard Treasury Systems as their CTO. Your big money is going to go into hiring your employees.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Immediately told them to hire 50 reps in a different city, in a different city, and they did. The CEO was deferential because that was 10 times what he’d ever raised before, and did all of it. Jason Lemkin: 50 reps in a new city that you’ve never met, and hired in 60 days when you’re in the low millions ARR.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 2, 2020

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 It is much more painful to have to fire people and contract as a company than it is to grow. I really try to never lose a game of chicken.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

And from about 2007 till 2010 we bootstrapped and built the first version of the Pluralsight you see today. His name is Nate Walkingshaw and he has a book out on product leadership that was recently published, which is an incredible book. So there was this leadership evolution that we had to experience as a company.

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