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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. So we build a service that does cybersecurity global performance or liability for any internet property. And in these last 10 years, we have 26 million internet properties that use our service on any given day.

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

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To date Bob has raised over $15m with Crossbeam from friends of the show including Andy @ Uncork, Matt @ Firstmark, Bill @ First Round and Matt @ Salesforce Ventures, to name a few. Prior to Crossbeam, Bob founded Stitched, a powerful ETL service built for developers that was acquired by Talend in 2018. Bob Moore: Yeah.

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The Things Nobody Tells You About An $8B Acquisition with Ryan Smith from Qualtrics (Video + Transcript)

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We wanted to automate research that was being outsourced and then we wanted to take it to the world. And the team deck doesn’t say who the CEO is? We called ourselves a team of four, actually, who operate and make decisions, and it’s just how we rolled. What about bigger partners and things like that?