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

SaaStr

While hardly the only vendor doing automated product insights, UserTesting has been doing it for quite a while (founded way back in 2007) and doing it well, with over 2,100 customers including many tech leaders. Stuck with per-seat pricing from 2007-2020, but added flex pricing in Q4′ 2020 — and quickly went to 20% of revenue.

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

SaaStr

And we ended the day with an incredible combo of the hottest app at that time (and one of the hottest ever), Slack, who likely was around $30m ARR or so … and hadn’t yet added a sales team! It’s about scale and revenue. At a high level, why are things scaling faster than ever from your perspective?

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

SaaStr

Hubspot is an inbound marketing and sales software company based in Massachusetts. Prior to this, he was a Venture Partner at Longworth Ventures, VP of Sales at Groove Networks (acquired by Microsoft.). from 2007-2011 which eventually became Twitch. His session focused on scaling an open culture.

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

SaaStr

My co founders and I were software developers, so we knew how to write the code, to build the website, to build the learning platform, to build the video distribution model. And from about 2007 till 2010 we bootstrapped and built the first version of the Pluralsight you see today. .” So, let me walk you through that.

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

SaaStr

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. I had always done general software things, database software, mainframes, PeopleSoft, run that technology groups, Salesforce.com platform for everybody.

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How Clio grew from a lifestyle business to a legal tech juggernaut

Point Nine Land

How Clio grew from a lifestyle business into a legal tech juggernaut From bootstrapping growth to securing a $250 million funding round, Clio is a lesson in how to scale a company without abandoning its roots. These kinds of mistakes can lead to a lawyer getting disbarred. Again, this was 2007.