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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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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. The other thing is I’ve studied enterprise software for literally 30 years. I was an intern at IBM mainframe software when I was 20 years old.

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

SaaStr

So my father sat down with me in our basement, and I remember working in this makeshift workstation that we built together and we learned how to code, because back then there weren’t a lot of applications, there weren’t a lot of games, a lot of software to be used, so we actually had to create it ourselves.

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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.