SaaStr

DECEMBER 24, 2022

So this was a Truly Terrible, Very Bad, Just Plain Awful year for SaaS IPOs — and IPOs in general. In fact, IPOs had their biggest slump since 2008: IPO listing volume is down a stunning 93%(!) The downstream effects on venture capital and more are still to come. The IPO window is closed. Shut, mostly. since 2021.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 3, 2019

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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FastSpring

MARCH 10, 2023

Like the iPhone is 2008. But I mean, if you go back to 2006 2007 2008 like that, yeah, that was just not a thing that people did. So the iPhone as we know it today was not even the iPhone of 2008 and the iPhone of 2008 was revolutionary. So take me back, like how did how did this project start? Like the way that we do it.

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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?” Michelle Zatelyn | COO + Co-Founder @ Cloudflare. And so we started to work on this in 2009.

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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.

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