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The 18 Outstanding Speakers at SaaStock LatAm 2019

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In 2016, he co-founded Meetime, an Inside Sales Strategies company and now serves as its CMO, building a powerful branding and content creation operation. Talk: SaaS.City Bootcamp: Sales Leadership. Talk: SaaS.City Bootcamp: Sales Leadership. Talk: SaaS.City Bootcamp: Sales Leadership. Business Consultancy.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Tidelift and Cloudflare

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Finally, before YesWare, she was VP of Sales @ Engine Yard, where she tripled monthly recurring revenue, over the course of her 3+ year tenure, in 3 key leadership roles. Why does Bridget believe the best starting point for customer success is “company culture and value”? ” Because again, it was 2008.

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From Slooooow Growth to Hypergrowth with Collibra and Insight Partners (Video + Transcript)

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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.

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SaaStr Classic: Jyoti Bansal of Harness.io and AppDynamics; Dev Ittycheria of MongoDB (Video + Transcript)

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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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Starting Up In A Downturn with Cloudflare COO and Co-Founder Michelle Zatelyn (Video + Transcript)

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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. And so you got to really hire a leadership team better than you.

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Subscription Rockstars: How HubSpot Went From Zero to $500+ Million in Annual Revenue

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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.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with PagerDuty and Gusto — April 17, 2020

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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.

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