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Key Lessons from a $5B SaaS Category Leader (Video + Transcript)

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I’ve been in venture capital for about 20 years, made my first SaaS investment about 18 years ago and have really been focused on this space for a long time. I work at a firm called Shasta Ventures. And so we funded it in 2006 that full product didn’t come out until 2008. My name’s Doug Pepper.

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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. You got to be really frugal and you’re going out to innovate your way out of problems. You really innovate your way out of problems or engineer your way out of problems. Let’s innovate our way out of the problem.”

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State of the Cloud 2019 from Bessemer Venture Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And this goes back to ten years ago, which was 2008 and we released the ten laws of cloud computing at a CEO conference that we had that was meaningfully smaller than this. 78 times in the AWS … ADABAS was referenced in the Amazon press release and earnings announcement. Twice for retail.

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