SaaStr

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

In 2007, Cisco acquired WebEx for $3.2 He proposed a new smartphone-friendly video conferencing system to Cisco’s management, but his idea wasn’t accepted. At WebEx, he quickly proved his technical abilities and rose through the ranks. In 2011, at the age of 41, Yuan left his secure position at Cisco to found Zoom.

VP of Engineering 258

VP of Engineering Software Engineering Company Culture Engineering 258

SaaStr

APRIL 26, 2022

With CEO Jay Chandhry still owning 25% of a $30B market cap, it’s also an epic model in managing dilution. Zscaler was founded in 2007, and took a decade to cross $100m in revenues — as it does for most of us, even the best of us. Zscaler leaned into early into security in a cloud-first model, and it worked. But then boom!

Scale 293

Scale Cloud Scaling Revenue 293

SaaStr

MARCH 2, 2023

With more than 80,000 servers under management, we have provided infrastructure for mission-critical websites, Internet applications, e-mail servers, security, and storage services since 1997. Zendesk started the customer experience revolution in 2007 by enabling any business around the world to take their customer service online.

Scale 258

Scale Technical Review Software Review Machine Learning 258

Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Founded in 2007, Dropbox epitomizes the freemium go-to-market. More impressive still: the company has managed to nearly double revenues while decreasing the amount they spent on COGs annually. Dropbox has grown from 0 to 500 million users over that time period. 2% of those users convert to paid and pay an average of $9.33

Scale 214

Scale Acquisition Cloud Revenue 214

Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 24, 2023

credit: Wired There at the top of the post is a photo of the 2007 APM class, coincidentally my class (I’m there on the right), departing San Francisco for a trip that would take us to Tokyo, Beijing, Bangkok, Bangalore & Tel Aviv. Aakash Gupta published Product Requirements Documents (PRDs): A Modern Guide.

Travel 189

Travel Mobile Technology Pricing 189

SaaStr

OCTOBER 4, 2024

’ That’s what I got was one tweet from a junior product manager. When Klaviyo started during the post-2007-2008 recession hangover, it was a great time to build. And then I asked later, ‘What happened?’ ’ They’re like, ‘Oh, you didn’t see the tweet?’

Revenue 300

Revenue Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 300

SaaStr

MAY 22, 2019

from 2007-2011 which eventually became Twitch. She started off as an associate product manager with Netscape, then joined the Boston Consulting Group as a project leader. Jay Simons rose up the ranks from Area Sales Manager with Plumtree software to VP of Product Marketing and Strategy.

Scale 167

Scale Leadership Consulting Software Development 167

OpenView Labs

AUGUST 18, 2020

Also, research by Adobe/eConsultancy showed companies that prioritized and managed customer experience effectively were 3X more likely than their competitors to exceed outlined business goals in 2019. On the other hand, manage it well and the statistics are in favor of you growing your business. Leaning towards product led growth.

Management 116

Management Subscription Payment Features Churn 116

The Angel VC

MAY 4, 2018

The mighty king of Freemium Like Zendesk, Yammer, and a few other SaaS companies that were all founded around 2007-2008, Dropbox was one of the early champions of the "consumerization of the enterprise" movement. Product Dropbox managed to beautifully solve a very difficult problem.

Underperforming Technical Team 143

Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Systems Review Software Review 143

SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2021

We’ve evolved around content management. 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. It started off in pharma CRM 10 years ago, really focusing in there, built this CRM product on Salesforce.com.

Sales Hiring 337

Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Headcount 337

SaaStr

MAY 15, 2019

He then led product management for XDegrees and spent over five years rising up through the ranks at Symantec. Mikkel later founded Zendesk in 2007 while living in Copenhagen, Denmark. Gainsight’s customer success software empowers companies to increase revenue and decrease customer churn. He moved the company to San Francisco in 2009.

Sales Recruiting 171

Sales Recruiting Software Review Technical Review PayPal 171

Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 1, 2014

I’ve been reading a book called Legacy Of Ashes, which is an exhaustive history of the CIA since its founding more than 50 years ago through to 2007. Reading spy stories is always enthralling, but surprisingly, the book is a fascinating case study in management. And if you recall, time is the only competitive resource we have.

Management 113

Management Data 113

IT World

DECEMBER 8, 2021

That's 34% more empty offices than the nation saw during the Great Recession of 2007-2010, according to Cushman & Wakefield, a global commercial real estate broker. Peter Miscovich, managing director of JLL. Since COVID-19 was officially classified a global pandemic in March 2020, the US has shed 138.4

Management 105

Management 105

SaaStock

JANUARY 30, 2019

With the VC’s support, its portfolio companies have managed to obtain $1.9 It was launched in 2007 to operate the Criatec I Fund’s investments in São Paulo. Currently, it manages the São Paulo Innovation Fund (FIP), focusing on funding agriculture, IT, health tech and FinTech companies in the state. Founded: 2007.

Venture Capital 155

Venture Capital SaaS Healthcare Finance 155

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

About the episode: Mark Suster is Managing Partner at Upfront Ventures which he joined in 2007, having previously worked with Upfront for nearly 8 years as a two-time entrepreneur. Before joining Upfront Mark was Vice President, Product Management at Salesforce.com following its acquisition of Koral, where Mark was Founder and CEO.

Technical Review 201

Technical Review Development Team Review Software Review Scale 201

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

That’s exactly how Yelp approached its growth journey, under the leadership of Senior Vice President and General Manager of Local Revenue Kayti Sullivan. She joined the company in 2007 back when it was just 30 people and has been instrumental in helping the company scale both its team and its market share over the years.

VP of Engineering 108

VP of Engineering Customer Success Churn Scale 108

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 28, 2018

When I moved to Silicon Valley in 2007, self-serve software was all the rage. You don’t have to hire and manage large sales, support, and success teams. When software and service aren’t equal priorities, it’s impossible to build a successful company. The people you hire provide just as much value as your product.

Scale 184

Scale Sales Hiring SaaS Sales 184

Clouded Judgement

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Pretty crazy to think about - growth adjusted multiples are near pre-covid all time highs (excluding 2020-2021 period) even though rates are as high as they’ve been since 2007 (and double what they were on average from 2010-2020). So what’s going on?

Cloud 190

Cloud Government Banking Software Review 190

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 28, 2019

Jamie’s team worked with over 18,000 sales professionals in 2018 alone and shares her ideas, strategies, and tips on what makes a great salesperson, how to interview, and how to properly manage your career. . I managed their team, met my business partner now, and then we decided we were going to start a company. Have they evolved?

Sales Recruiting 95

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Management 95

Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

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). She’s also built out a top-notch management team that stands ready to keep innovating and driving toward Instacart’s mission, including COO Asha Sharma, CFO Nick Giovanni, and CBO Chris Rogers.

Marketplace as a Service 140

Marketplace as a Service Underperforming Technical Team Scale Construction 140

Tom Tunguz

MAY 18, 2015

In the late 1990s, two of the dominant talent management platforms were founded. Both companies eventually offered talent acquisition, performance management, and learning tools for human resources teams. Taleo initially focused on recruiting tools and SuccessFactors on performance management. SuccessFactors 39 1300 30 2007 6.

Sales Recruiting 100

Sales Recruiting Scale Software Acquisition 100

Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Steward Ensuring the data infrastructure meets the teams needs and complies with company/industry policy Supply the proper infrastructure to met the needs of the data team, manage legal risk, and document data. Master Data Management, Data Lineage, Access Control and Rights Administration, Provisioning.

Startup 100

Startup Development Marketing Banking 100

Zuora

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

By Sergio Claudio, VP, Brand Experience When Zuora was founded in 2007, we had a vision that the world was […]. The post From subscription management to monetization: Evolving our brand alongside our transformation appeared first on Zuora.

Branding 52

Branding Payment Features Subscription Management 52

Frontegg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

authentication framework for better interoperability, identity management, and support for mobile apps in development. was initially released in 2007 as an authorization method for the Twitter API. OpenID Connect supports both authentication and authorization, managing secure authentication of the end-user. What Is OAuth2?

Mobile 144

Mobile PayPal Identity management Cloud 144

Tom Tunguz

MARCH 20, 2014

But the number of $5 to $15M Series Bs hasn’t changed since 2007. While there has been an enormous expansion of seed funds that catalyze Series A rounds, there has not been an equal expansion in the number of Series B firms, which require larger funds and are harder to raise as a first-time fund manager investor.

Startup 100

Startup Acquisition Engineering Trends 100

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 1, 2018

I’ve been working with my co-founders since 2007-2008. You can check out the slides and video below. Would you prefer a written account? What follows is a lightly edited transcript of the presentation. The nature of traction itself has changed quite a bit in that period.

Retention 223

Retention Payment Methods Onboarding Payment Solutions 223

Baremetrics

MARCH 30, 2021

Do any of them have what you want in a subscription management service? Baremetrics is an online subscription management tool designed for both organizations and individual brands that use a subscription billing system. Do they support the payment platform you desire? Do the automation features match your interest?

Payment Solutions 105

Payment Solutions Payment Features Payments Payment Methods 105

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

So number six, thinking you’re getting away with under investing in management, up scaling in HR. And in this way, we under invested in middle management along the way, especially in our go to market motion. Instead of investing a bunch in automation, they invested a bunch in managers in that go to market motion.

Sales Hiring 246

Sales Hiring CTO Hire Scale Investment 246

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 7, 2022

On March 8, they incorporated their management tool. Here are a few key takeaways: Every customer success manager starts as a firefighter. 2007 was when the iPhone was launched and when LinkedIn finally became profitable. ” They only worked on things they deemed important; “no fluff,” they said. Short on time?

Customer Success 118

Customer Success Technical Review Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 118

Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Established in 2007, Bonanza has built itself a loyal following, with a vast range of categories. Sellers can also accept Apple Pay, Google Pay, and gift cards through managed payments. If you’re selling from various platforms, Newegg provides a central point to manage all your orders. Final offer value fees are 3.5

Payment Methods 145

Payment Methods Payments Marketplace as a Service Payment Services 145

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. ” So let’s jump in and talk a little bit more.

Sales Recruiting 198

Sales Recruiting Scale Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring 198

SaaStr

JULY 22, 2019

And so we’ve built … We started out in fairly small fashion, initially, when we started the company 11, 12 years ago, and focused very heavily on the application performance management marketplace. The company started back in 2007, 2008. And our CEO and founder, Lew Cirne, was actually the founder of the category of APM.

Scale 230

Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 230

Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Founded in 2007, MobileIron is a leader in the Mobile Device Management sector. MDM provides enterprises software to manage the mobile phones and tablets of their employees. Customers buy the software and deploy it on their own hardware, so there are no ongoing costs of revenue.

Benchmarks 100

Benchmarks Metrics SaaS Scale 100

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

I worked my way up through management, became a clinic director at one of the largest sport medicine practices in the country. 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. I’m a physical therapist turned tech entrepreneur.

Scale 185

Scale SMB VP of Engineering Leadership 185

Neil Patel

MARCH 1, 2021

This is why investing in startups was previously reserved for venture capitalists and angel investors because they were seen as having the means and experience to manage that risk. Starting life in 2007 as two guys with a love of beer, BrewDog has developed into a $2-billion company, and equity crowdfunding has a lot to do with it.

Technical Review 145

Technical Review Business Venture Capital Systems Review 145

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. ” Did you hire the wrong first generation management team because you hadn’t done those functional areas before? Henry Schuck: Yeah.

Sales Hiring 229

Sales Hiring Scale Payments Cloud 229

Frontegg

MAY 27, 2021

Best For: Multi-Tenant User Management, Self-Service Enablement. Frontegg is revolutionizing the SaaS space with its next-gen user management platform, which is shortening development cycles and saving technical resources to enable product-led growth (PLG) strategies. Best For: Subscription Management, Billing. 3 Frontegg.

Payment Solutions 98

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments Scale 98