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A Look Back: How $13 Billion Ramp Began To Scale with Co-Founder and CTO Karim Atiyah

SaaStr

Co-founder and CTO Karim Atiyah came to SaaStr Annual to share how they got this rocketship … off the ground. ” SaaStr Take: Your early hires will define your company’s trajectory. Back in 2021 though, Ramp was just 2 years in — but already experiencing hypergrowth.

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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)”

SaaStr

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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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. 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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How I Got Promoted: Marques Stewart, VP of Technology at Achievement First

BetterCloud

I also knew that it wouldn’t be something that I’d get bored with over time. So, 2006 or 2007. ” At that time, I said, “You know what, I think I really want to become a CIO or CTO.” Was people management something you had to just accept as a reality when you decided you wanted to be a CIO?

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

Sales Hacker

He then founded Tellme Networks, sold that in 2007 for $900 million to Microsoft. We were part of the office of the CTO. At that time, Marc Andreessen, the founder was the CTO of the company and there were only three of us in the group. It was acquired by Microsoft in 2007 for about 900 million.

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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. Cause I remember when we signed the program manager agreement with Discover, this was early 2011, and then we closed our Series A on June 2nd of 2011. And at the time we thought we were absolute rock stars.

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

SaaStr

I retired from SunGard Treasury Systems as their CTO. BlackLine started out by building wealth management software. 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.

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