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

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One of the most popular sessions at SaaStr Annual, Busting the Myths About Startup Success with BlackLine CEO and Founder Therese Tucker is up at the top of our must-watch list. Get your tickets to the SaaS show everyone will be talking about! I retired from SunGard Treasury Systems as their CTO. We failed almost many times.

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

SaaStr

I retired from SunGard Treasury Systems as their CTO. We see that guy all the time down in LA. Don’t be that guy with your startup. The reality is most startups fail. There were any number of times when I was really convinced that it was a dead, dead, dead proposition. We failed almost many times.

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

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He then founded Tellme Networks, sold that in 2007 for $900 million to Microsoft. Although our firm is based in Silicon Valley, I’m based on the East Coast so I spend a lot of time working with founders in New York City, Boston, and London. We were part of the office of the CTO. Success without College [2:46].