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

SaaStr

How does a startup that launched during the financial crisis in 2008 become a unicorn company in 2019? So we started in 2008 June, 2008 I think and in three days we would celebrate our 11th birthday. It’s interesting to see how much has changed over the last 10 years, but in 2008 it was a very different time I think.

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Rumors Aside, the CIO Is Not Dead

OpenView Labs

In 2008, InformationWeek painted a bleak picture of CIOs under siege. Back in the days when the CIO’s role was almost exclusively about security, compliance and general technology “plumbing,” so to speak, software vendors found they could circumvent the CIO’s corner office and sell directly to the end user. The Role is Expanding.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Crossbeam and Podium – January 10, 2020

SaaStr

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. And in the course of doing that, I think I really discovered and fell in love with SaaS as a business model and it really doubled down on my interest in data analytics. Is that not? Bob Moore: It absolutely is.

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Building Consumer Grade Enterprise Products with Invision, Box, Google Maps and Crunchbase (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

So I think, let’s see, if I look at Salesforce One was a project that started, I guess it was around 2008-ish, I think. So really the consumerization came down to are we actually solving the problem better and are we making it super easy for someone to buy it and renew it? Ciara : Craig. Craig : Yeah. And very similar for AB testing.

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8 Tough Lessons from Closing 12,000 Customers at WebPT (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

From that point on, we built a product and we launched it in February of 2008 out of a back of a coffee shop with one employee. So we launched the company in February of 2008. We launched the company in 2008. Some compliance factors had added fuel to our fire in terms of more people wanting to adopt.

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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. Jeff : Basically, we launched voice in 2008, very end of 2008. Once you can check all the boxes, prove you have checked them to the engineering leadership of Twilio.

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What Are The Top 50 SaaS Companies in 2020?

SmartKarrot

The ‘haven for programmers’ – GitHub has been providing its services through a SaaS model since 2008. The leading provider of tax compliance automation software for businesses was ranked in Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500. It still continues to gain acclaim for its growth, product, and leadership. Engineering. Salesforce.