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

SaaStr

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. His tenure at Atlassian began in 2008 where he rose from VP of Sales and Marketing to President. A leader has 3 responsibilities that are akin to a bus.

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The SaaS Org Chart Live with David Sacks (Podcast #491 and Video)

SaaStr

In 2008, he founded Yammer, an enterprise software company that David grew to 500 employees and $60 million in sales. David Sacks: SaaS Background and Investments. David’s first foray into SaaS was in 1999 when he joined a startup that would become PayPal, starting as the product leader and later as the COO. Microsoft acquired Yammer for $1.2

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Power Laws: A Look Back To Where 20 SaaS Break-Out Companies from 2012 Are Today

SaaStr

Sold for $27m (1x revenues?). Being early isn’t everything. 2987 Bullhorn. in 2011 GAAP revenue. HR is hard. 3781 Dairy.com. in 2011 GAAP revenue, but only up from $5.7m 4563 Accolo. $7.6 million in 2011 GAAP revenue. See: HR is hard. Do marketing SaaS start-up instead. I wish everyone would try to win this award.”

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From Maxio’s New CEO: “I’m thrilled to be entrusted with leading Maxio.”

SaaSOptics

I was there when the bubble burst in 2001, the meltdown of 2008, and I’ve seen our industry rise again as SaaS businesses have attracted incredible amounts of capital over the past 10 years. How the magic happens. I’ve spent 20+ years in tech–all of it in the Internet sector.

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Be the Up in a Downturn: Advice From SurveyMonkey’s Tom Hale

OpenView Labs

Those who went through the 2001 and 2008 economic downturns emerged with valuable lessons on navigating a crisis—not to mention a heck of a lot of resilience. So we had to prune back even as we were pivoting the teams and the leadership to chase a new opportunity. Put your best talent and leadership on transformation.

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Are We Due for a SaaSacre?

Kellblog

2008) it can get well below 5x. 2008, 2015) it’s not outrageous to think that multiples could drop towards the middle or bottom of that range, i.e., closer to 5 than 10 [6]. Looking at the blue line, you can see that while it’s pretty volatile, eyeballing it, I’d say it normally runs in the range between 5x and 10x.

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The 9 Sales Conferences Worth Your Time in 2021

Sales Hacker

As the longest-running sales tech conference around (since 2008), the annual Sales 3.0 Sales Development Strategy – Leadership (March 24). Sales Development Tactical – Leadership + SDR (June 23). Attendees will learn best practices in sales engagement and how to onboard an organization from leadership down to the team level.

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