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.

Sales Recruiting 100

Sales Recruiting Benchmarks Metrics SaaS 100

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.

Sales Recruiting 161

Sales Recruiting Scale Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring 161

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

First company was Greenfield startup to IPO. 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. We schedule a demo in the same day.

Scale 166

Scale SMB VP of Engineering Leadership 166

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

And we were about a $50 million sales run rate, but I’d never done a media interview. I don’t think we thought we were going to do a startup. For the first 10 years when we didn’t do one media interview and we got to 50 million in sales. Jason Lemkin: Oh, I see. Ryan Smith: No. Jason Lemkin: Yeah.

Acquisition 124

Acquisition Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring 124

SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

This SaaS Company provides a dedicated solution for call centers and also for support and sales teams. So, its list of customers, which has grown exponentially in the last few years, includes customers ranging from startups to market giants. About: Dataiku is an AI-based data science platform. Headquarter: Paris. ContentSquare.

SaaS Payments 10

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods Sales Recruiting 10

SmartKarrot

JANUARY 25, 2022

So many SaaS startups have cropped up in the market in the past few years, and seeing their growth traction, it is tough to choose one over the other. Since its establishment in 2007, Babbel has grown its business manifold and now is a leader in the language travel market. Headquarter: Berlin, Germany. Headquarter: Munich, Germany.

Technical Review 10

Technical Review SaaS Point of Sale Banking 10