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The Early Days: How Veeva Hit $100m ARR With Just $3m Raised — And a Deep Vertical Focus

SaaStr

Veeva is the dominant cloud software provider for life sciences – serving pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device companies with mission-critical applications for drug development, clinical trials, regulatory compliance, and commercial operations. market cap – up from $2.4B market cap – up from $2.4B ” 7.

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Who is Peter Gassner CEO and Founder of SaaS Leader Veeva Systems

SaaStr

Who is Peter Gassner CEO and Founder of SaaS Leader Veeva Systems Peter Gassner has established himself as a significant figure in enterprise software, particularly through his leadership at Veeva Systems. Instead of building generic enterprise software, he went all-in on life sciences. Classic vertical SaaS expansion.

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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. It’s not that easy out there in SaaS land these days, folks. These are still great times in SaaS. I love the company and the product, and the value add.

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

SaaStr

While it can be frightening to think differently, doing so has helped him make Veeva the biggest vertical SaaS success story of all time. 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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Holiday Specials: 2023 Cyber Weekend SaaS and Software Deals

FastSpring

In case you missed it, our recent 2023 SaaS and Software Holiday Spend Report highlights how, whether your business focuses on B2C, B2B, or both , SaaS and software Q4 sales bumps are significant around the globe. a financial software company founded in 2007 and based in Southern California.

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Employee Spotlight: Bill Wilson, Senior Director of Product and Kite Designer

FastSpring

How long have you been working in the SaaS/Tech industry? My first job in tech was in 1998 as a software developer. In 2007, I decided to build my first company, MindSea, and in 2018 I went on to start SalesRight. We needed to figure out a way to sell our service in a productized way, kind of like a SaaS product.

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Taking a $4B Company from Consumer to B2B with Pluralsight (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

In this presentation, Pluralsight co-founder and CEO Aaron Skonnard will discuss how Pluralsight successfully transformed its business to serve both individual and enterprise customers independently and will share his lessons for SaaS companies looking to tap into individual customers to sell into enterprises and vice versa.

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