SaaStr

JULY 29, 2020

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.

Sales Hiring 172

Sales Hiring Outsourcing Services Scale Sales Recruiting 172

SaaStr

JULY 10, 2020

I’ve held a bunch of technology leadership roles in startups, in rocket ships and turnarounds, including about 10 years at Google, and just over three years leading efforts at Evernote. So over the course of those 20 or so odd years in technology leadership roles. Mobile apps and app development. E-commerce is on fire.

Scale 188

Scale Sales Hiring Pricing Sales Recruiting 188

SaaStr

MAY 21, 2019

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.

Cloud 167

Cloud Scale Finance Retention 167