SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2021

Jason : You came up with the crazy idea to start Veeva in 2007, just before the worst two years that we’ve experienced in the industry, ’08 and ’09. In 2007, I had this idea, “I’m going to make something very specific to an industry, very specific to an industry in the cloud.” Peter : Yeah.

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SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2023

And we ended the day with an incredible combo of the hottest app at that time (and one of the hottest ever), Slack, who likely was around $30m ARR or so … and hadn’t yet added a sales team! It was early 2007 the iPhone was announced. I’m like, “Where can I talk to a sales rep?” Jason : Forever.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

We started the business in 2007. SalesLoft, why was that Pardot, I tried to recruit this guy, Kyle Porter, to come run sales at Pardot. Let’s be 50/50 co-founders and let’s start a company in the sales space.” Product number three for SalesLoft is today’s product, sales engagement software.

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Point Nine Land

OCTOBER 22, 2019

For Jack Newton and Rian Gauvreau, the lightbulb moment that led to the creation of Clio came out of a casual conversation they had in 2007 with the director of practice standards at the Law Society of British Columbia, an organization that can be compared in function to the National Bar Association in the U.S. Again, this was 2007.

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SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

Ari is an alum of Techstars’ first class in 2007 with Filtrbox, which was acquired by Jive Software in 2010. This meant new things to us like hiring and onboarding and training and new processes and understanding how our KPIs were changing as we started to scale up. Ari, why won’t you give a quick overview of Techstars?

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SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

Ari is an alum of Techstars’ first class in 2007 with Filtrbox, which was acquired by Jive Software in 2010. This meant new things to us like hiring and onboarding and training and new processes and understanding how our KPIs were changing as we started to scale up. Ari, why won’t you give a quick overview of Techstars?

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SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

Ari is an alum of Techstars’ first class in 2007 with Filtrbox, which was acquired by Jive Software in 2010. This meant new things to us like hiring and onboarding and training and new processes and understanding how our KPIs were changing as we started to scale up. Ari, why won’t you give a quick overview of Techstars?

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