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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Tidelift and Cloudflare

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Finally, before YesWare, she was VP of Sales @ Engine Yard, where she tripled monthly recurring revenue, over the course of her 3+ year tenure, in 3 key leadership roles. And we started CloudFlare during the economic downturn right after the financial crisis in 2008. ” Because again, it was 2008.

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Starting Up In A Downturn with Cloudflare COO and Co-Founder Michelle Zatelyn (Video + Transcript)

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Michelle : During the economic downturn right after the financial crisis in 2008. And I remember like AWS was growing really quickly. And at the time there was a big debate of, “Will big companies ever really use AWS?” You need to hire a leadership team that’s better than you in everything you do.