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

SaaStr

YC has funded over 1,900 startups since 2005 including Airbnb, coinbase, Dropbox, Stripe, Flexport, instacart and reddit. from 2007-2011 which eventually became Twitch. Prior to Logickull Andy was a software developer at EDS (an HP Company). Y Combinator is a seed accelerator. Andy Wilson is CEO and Founder of Logikcull.

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

SaaStr

It was early 2007 the iPhone was announced. Stewart, totally disabuse me if I get it wrong, but notwithstanding all the blue chip logos you have, you’ve got a very core software development, project management core. I don’t think that Yammer had that same software developer core that could get accelerated.

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

FastSpring

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. Given that I was running a startup for the last two and a half years, I don’t have many hobbies. How long have you been working in the SaaS/Tech industry?

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

Point Nine Land

For Jack Newton and Rian Gauvreau, the lightbulb moment that led to the creation of Clio came out of a casual conversation they had in 2007 with the director of practice standards at the Law Society of British Columbia, an organization that can be compared in function to the National Bar Association in the U.S. Again, this was 2007.

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Top 30 SaaS Companies in the US

SmartKarrot

Founded in: 2007. Used by millions of companies and software developers across the globe, GitHub is a software development tracking and version control repository. Pluralsight creates and develops digital products that train employees for the digital workplace. Founded in: 2007. Fresh Service.

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Top 20 SaaS Companies in Brazil

SmartKarrot

Brazil’s SaaS landscape is bustling, thanks to the number of innovative startups that entered the horizon in recent years. 99 , often known as 99Taxis, is a popular urban transportation software developed in Brazil’s SaaS community. Unico is a Brazilian startup that specializes in digital identity protection.