Remove 2007 Remove CTO Hire Remove Sales Remove Software
article thumbnail

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

SaaStr

I’ve spent my whole career in B2B software. I retired from SunGard Treasury Systems as their CTO. BlackLine started out by building wealth management software. year sales cycles. Then, even if you get the software in and they love it, sometimes they take three or four months to pay. prem software company?

Startup 271
article thumbnail

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

SaaStr

The transcript for this episode is below: Therese Tucker: I’ve spent my whole career in B2B software. I retired from SunGard Treasury Systems as their CTO. BlackLine started out by building wealth management software. year sales cycles. You have to learn things like how do I scale my sales force? I was great at it.

Startup 155
article thumbnail

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

SaaStr

So my father sat down with me in our basement, and I remember working in this makeshift workstation that we built together and we learned how to code, because back then there weren’t a lot of applications, there weren’t a lot of games, a lot of software to be used, so we actually had to create it ourselves.

B2B 133