SaaStr
NOVEMBER 28, 2019
How does a startup that launched during the financial crisis in 2008 become a unicorn company in 2019? For Collibra, a cross-organizational data governance platform, the company went from slow growth to hypergrowth. So we started in 2008 June, 2008 I think and in three days we would celebrate our 11th birthday.
SaaStr
JULY 25, 2021
And is it a team that I really want to work with and do they, is it someone that I feel like can really take this company to its whole potential? When I was starting as a first time entrepreneur in 2008, I got rejected by a lot of VCs. Dev Ittycheria : Yeah a couple of bad hires, change the culture, all of a sudden the dynamics change.
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Chargify
AUGUST 6, 2019
2008: 317 customers. 2008: 42 employees. Most notably, $5 million in VC funding from General Catalyst in 2007, $12 million in VC funding from Matrix Partners in 2008 and $16 million in VC funding from Scale Venture Partners in 2009. So, they chose to focus on growing fast and achieving industry leadership in their space.
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. Other members of our executive leadership team do and they post that to the company.
SaaStr
FEBRUARY 4, 2020
So the time that I was at Google was 2007, so pre the 2008 recession. You’re passionate about diversity and you hire an all white male leadership team. So in our executive leadership meeting two days ago, recency matters, specificity matters. We had 5,000 employees and $14 billion in revenue.
SaaStr
NOVEMBER 2, 2019
As for Krish, under Krish’s leadership the team has grown to over 300 people and over 5,000 clients making it one of the next generation in truly global SaaS businesses started in India. Billion story from its launch in 2008 to its 2018 acquisition by Recruit Holdings. Loving our podcast content?
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. So that turned out to work well for everybody.
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