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AMA at SaaStr Annual 2022 with SaaStr Founder & CEO Jason Lemkin – Part 1 (Pod 607 + Video)

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They have service and all this, but the second cloud for them was sales. And then with your finance person or yourself or your outsourced person, you build a C-90 plan, which is one, we’re 90% sure, even if sales slow, we’re going to hit this plan. Even this year, one of the big vendors for us quit three weeks ago.

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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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Saastr Podcasts for the Week with Gong and Brex — June 7, 2019

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To date, Amit has raised $68m in funding for Gong from the likes of Norwest, Battery Ventures, Cisco Investments, and Wing Venture Capital, just to name a few. Finally, before that, Amit was the Founder & CEO @ SparkThis, an outsourced marketing and sales service for cloud companies.

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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. What about bigger partners and things like that? I was on a board with John Doerr a while ago, you know, the legend of venture capital, he modeled 6% dilution a year. Jason Lemkin: Yeah. Did it help to have that impact?