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Instacart

Andreessen Horowitz

The more I got exposed to the details behind the Instacart business, the more it reminded me of OpenTable (where I had been CEO from 2007-2011). Focusing on the former was key to our investment decision. Both needed to convince businesses to join the platform with the promise that they would drive incremental revenue.

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SaaStr’s Most Respected Leaders Awards 2019: The Top Ten

SaaStr

His thoughts on leadership in a nutshell? “A from 2007-2011 which eventually became Twitch. From 200-2008 she held leadership positions at Allegis Corporation and Intuit before ultimately joining Intercom in 2017. He co-founded the company with Dharmesh Shah, the two met while they were grad students at M.I.T.

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How Fast Does a SaaS Startup Have to Grow to Survive?

Tom Tunguz

Large market; logical revenue model; rapid-adoption; stealth/secrecy; proper compensation of the leadership team. To cite one critical counterexample, Concur’s rapid revenue growth in 2006 and 2007 occurred after nearly a decade of tepid expansion. In part one, the authors identify five key factors of success in the early stages.

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Self-Correct Before You Self-Destruct (Summit Replay)

Sales Hacker

He has worked for & consulted with many organizations & has expertise in sales, sales process, leadership development & the commercialization of new products and services. Rob has received 15 Stevie Awards for Sales and Service since 2007.

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5 Business Books I Wish I’d Read Sooner

OpenView Labs

However, it’s hard to argue that something is genuinely new in human endeavors like leadership, politics, and business. A year later, in 2007, Steve Jobs made the phone your browser. This is everyone in a leadership position. Is Blockchain the technology unique? Think the Bitcoin economic phenomenon is new?

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The decade software ate the world

Intercom, Inc.

Steve Jobs’s claim that “ People want to own their music ” rather than rent it might have been right when he said it around the time of the iPhone launch in 2007, but the very fabric of our culture has shifted entirely since then. From movies and TV to music, we now live in a cloud-enabled, subscription-based streaming wonderland.

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Be the Up in a Downturn: Advice From SurveyMonkey’s Tom Hale

OpenView Labs

So we had to prune back even as we were pivoting the teams and the leadership to chase a new opportunity. Put your best talent and leadership on transformation. Let’s fast-forward to 2007/2008 when you became an EIR for Redpoint Ventures. How has leadership changed in the last few weeks? Something like 2–3X the frequency.