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5 Interesting Learnings from UserTesting at $160,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

So UserTesting is a case study on how great SaaS can be (innovating and creating a market leader, and driving it to $160m+ ARR) … and also hard SaaS can be. UserTesting has opened offices in EMEA and APAC but has a bit lower international growth than I’d expect, given how global software development is now.

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Veeva: The Biggest Vertical SaaS Success Story of All Time (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

But back in 2017, CEO and co-founder Peter Gassner joined us after Veeva had recently IPO’d with a market cap less than a tenth of that size. 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. Peter : Yeah.

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How to Retain Employees For 10+ Years with Alf Ruppert

FastSpring

Alf Ruppert Yes, it started because I know the very first piece of software we did for Daylite was to connection for phone systems, so that you can push a button and then call out or if somebody’s calling in, you can see which customers calling in. And the problem was, I have no clue in software development.

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A Look Back: Slack at $30,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

Obviously, it’s a great product and great market, but things are different. It’s hard to know whether that’s some sort of broad based trend or whether it’s very specific to the mechanics of that product. It was early 2007 the iPhone was announced. Things are scaling faster. Stewart : You’re right.

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