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

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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. You have to learn things like how do I scale my sales force? How do we market?

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

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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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SaaStr Podcast #376 with ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck: “10 Mistakes the CEO of ZoomInfo Made on His Journey to IPO (Part 2)”

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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 Podcast #357 with BlackLine CEO & Founder Therese Tucker: “Busting the Myths About Startup Success”

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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. You have to learn things like how do I scale my sales force? I really try to never lose a game of chicken. Turned out it became who I am.

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