SaaStr

JULY 28, 2021

I retired from SunGard Treasury Systems as their CTO. He would time after time point to an area that I had completely missed. ” Cannot put a price on that. 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 Therese : Turned out I liked it.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 2, 2020

I retired from SunGard Treasury Systems as their CTO. He would, time after time, point to an area that I had completely missed. Cannot put a price on that. 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 Therese Tucker: Turned out I liked it.

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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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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. Seema: I’d love to transition a little bit into pricing and how you thought about that in the early days, because that’s a question that comes up a ton. And they were seeing lots of fraud.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

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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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

And from about 2007 till 2010 we bootstrapped and built the first version of the Pluralsight you see today. So getting your price point right, really figuring out how to optimize that was a big part of what the early Pluralsight was all about. Then another really interesting thing happened. We’re going to change things.

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