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

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His thoughts on leadership in a nutshell? “A From 200-2008 she held leadership positions at Allegis Corporation and Intuit before ultimately joining Intercom in 2017. Jay Simons rose up the ranks from Area Sales Manager with Plumtree software to VP of Product Marketing and Strategy. Andy Wilson Logikcull Founder / CEO.

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SaaStr Podcast #218: Twilio Founder, Jeff Lawson & SendGrid CEO, Sameer Dholakia on Why Developer First Is A Maturation In The Supply Chain Of Software

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Prior to joining SendGrid, he spent 4 years at Citrix, where he drove the company’s product strategy for cloud infrastructure and server virtualization. Before that, he worked for 12 years at Trilogy, where he held key leadership roles helping the company grow from a start-up to a $300 million business. Jeff Lawson: Sure.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week: May 24, 2019

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235: Andrew Filev is the Founder & CEO @ Wrike, the cloud based collaboration and project management software that scales across teams in any business. In Dec 2008, Vista Equity Partners acquired a majority stake in Wrike for a deal reportedly valuing the company at $800m. So that turned out to work well for everybody.

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Twilio: The First $100m+ ARR with Jeff Lawson, CEO/Co Founder (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

We’ve done a ton of terrific sessions with the Twilio leadership over the years, including 4 different deep dives with Jeff Lawson, CEO and co-founder. Twilio is a cloud communications platform that allows software developers to embed communications into the apps that they’re building. Jeff : Yeah, I saw one.

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

Point Nine Land

Law practice management software existed, but it required on-premise service and tens of thousands of dollars in annual upkeep, which meant only the big law firms had access to it. Salesforce was less than a decade old and cloud computing was still considered an emerging technology. Again, this was 2007.

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What Are The Top 50 SaaS Companies in 2020?

SmartKarrot

There has been a gradual shift from client/server architecture to the options provided by a hybrid cloud – the integration of public and private cloud. Owing to cost-effectiveness and confidentiality attributes, SaaS businesses continue to opt for cloud services. Adobe Creative Cloud. billion in 2017. Product-based.

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Prashanth Chandrasekar on writing the script of the future

Intercom, Inc.

But that sort of transformation doesn’t just happen on its own – it is the culmination of the tireless work and effort of millions of engineers and developers, building new things and overwriting old tools. I continued that journey with more software programming languages like Pearl and Java and so on. Jordan: Cool.