SaaStr

MAY 24, 2019

In Dec 2008, Vista Equity Partners acquired a majority stake in Wrike for a deal reportedly valuing the company at $800m. In December 2008, Vista Equity Partners acquired a majority stake in Wrike for a deal reportedly valuing the company at eight hundred million dollars.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

Billion story from its launch in 2008 to its 2018 acquisition by Recruit Holdings. Hear about the early days of Glassdoor; tactical lessons on scaling—from building a business model and recruiting an all-star management team to advice on building a compelling, innovative company culture; and learn whyGlassdoor’s $1.2

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

So the time that I was at Google was 2007, so pre the 2008 recession. It’s all different kinds of tribes and the ones that thrive have a lot in common. But it’s really the two Gs, Gusto and Google that probably are most relevant. We had 5,000 employees and $14 billion in revenue.

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SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2020

But as time went on, I could really see the level of innovation that was coming out of Silicon Valley, in particular, but SaaS companies more broadly, so managed to find my way to the West Coast of the U.S. in about 2008. So Domo, Nutanix, Qualtrics, PagerDuty, of course, Robinhood.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

And that led me to co-founding a company called RJ Metrics in 2008 with my co-founder Jake Stein, who was also at Insight. What marketing strategies are going to work at different stages of the company, your best practices in hiring, in building company culture, in frameworks for thinking about mission, vision, and values.

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Sales Hiring Scale Outsourcing Services CTO Hire 131

SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

Why does Bridget believe the best starting point for customer success is “company culture and value”? How does company culture impact the quality of customer success? Maybe, is it better to take it turn by turn, and how does company culture play into the level and quality of customer success? .

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Talk: Panel on Best Practices of Hiring for Culture Creation. However, her path changed in 2008 when she took on a new challenge: an MBA in Business and Management. Bringing her 15 years of experience in all these organisations, she will share her insights at the panel on company culture. Business Consultancy.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

As for Nick, prior to Gainsight he was the CEO @ LiveOffice where he grew cloud archiving ARR from $2m in 2008 to $25m in 2011 and drove and negotiated the acquisition by Symantec for $115m in cash. Nick Mehta: So you’re totally right and I think that’s interesting because there’s two sides to it.

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OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

There is also a direct impact on employee engagement, which is a key indicator of a healthy company culture. A recent Gallup poll reported that June 2020 saw the most considerable drop in US employee engagement on record (more so than during the 2008 recession or after 9/11).

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SaaStr

JULY 20, 2021

I went up on stage on Techcrunch50 in 2008 and I was like, “I’m going to build Expensify, a corporate card for the masses. At that time, 2008, iPhones and every phone out there had the shittiest cameras you could imagine. I could do this prepaid debit card thing on the side. They’ll change their mind.”

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SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

You may have been at Box in 2006 or LinkedIn in 2008. Like it’s what can you do here today now for our company. And if you perform and you put the effort in and you show the values, the company values, then you’re moving up or whatever it is that you want to do. I don’t give a s**t. I don’t care.

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SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2019

So come back to me when you figure out a real product that you can sell to a company. Jeff Lawson: You got that with people were quite a bit in the early days of Twilio and we, in fact, we spent the whole summer of 2008 trying to fundraise and didn’t raise a dime.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

In a period where analysts were calling for Starbucks to be dismantled and sold for parts, the company found a way to cut costs and remain true to one of their fundamental values of investing in their employees. If you invested $1,000 in Starbucks at its low point in 2008, that investment would currently be worth over $14,000.

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SaaStr

JULY 26, 2019

She likes to invest across consumer, B2B saas, and technology infrastructure companies at the earliest stages. In 2008 Leah founded TaskRabbit, the leading on-demand service marketplace in the world. 253: Leah Busque is currently a General Partner at Fuel Capital, an early stage venture fund located in Silicon Valley.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

And I think one of the things that played in our favor was, JPMorgan is such a big company. Really the last major acquisition they did was in 2008, 2009 when they bought Bear Stearns in Washington Mutual. Bill Clerico : And by the way, I think that’s so atypical in acquisitions.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2019

I’m an entrepreneur-turned-investor, co-founder of an early generation one, SaaS company called Message Labs that we founded in 2000. Exited to Semantic in 2008 and had a good exit for the early SaaS businesses then set up Notion and we focus on SaaS companies, mainly in Series A in the European market.

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2020

Michelle : During the economic downturn right after the financial crisis in 2008. I do want to say that there are a lot of companies that actually started kind of with us, that class of companies and many of them have turned into big great companies today. Michelle Zatelyn | COO + Co-Founder @ Cloudflare.

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