Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 7, 2015

LinkedIn attracts hundreds of millions of consumers to post resumes online and sells this data and access to its audience to advertisers and recruiters and salespeople. The intrinsic data and people network effects of the business create reinforcing feedback cycles that have helped the business achieve tremendous revenue growth.

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SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

MongoDB have been awarded year after year as being among the best Big Data companies, and they’re not worried at all about taking on Amazon. Founded: 2007. Botify offer a unified, data-driven, and user-friendly marketing suite that combines technical SEO, content, and real rankings. Based in: New York. Funding to date: $311M.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

I started a software company in college to make it easy to update websites called Content Management Software Now, and I had this idea for Pardot, I wanted to make it easy for marketers to run campaigns online and measure their results. We started the business in 2007. From a product point of view, our timing was impeccable.

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SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

MongoDB have been awarded year after year as being among the best Big Data companies, and they’re not worried at all about taking on Amazon. Founded: 2007. Botify offer a unified, data-driven, and user-friendly marketing suite that combines technical SEO, content, and real rankings. Based in: New York. Funding to date: $311M.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

They started in the point of sale market, and then as the company scaled, they rolled out new value props and modules for payroll, or Toast capital, or ways to manage your employee base. This is really founder-led sales. Byron gave a great example with Toast, one of my favorite portfolio companies. That’s your CAC.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

And we were about a $50 million sales run rate, but I’d never done a media interview. Ryan Smith: And so we had to switch and we chose Qualtrics, and it was the best thing we’ve ever done because everything we ever wanted to do, pivot the company or get away from surveys, which in 2007 were like, “Whoa, this is way bigger.”

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Then I went over to the sales department. The demo is the sale and we close everybody in month. When we actually did our market research, we found that 80% of physical therapists were still using and documenting on pen and paper back in 2007. The first thing you bring in your playbook on sales. He joined our board.

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