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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? Felix Van de Maele, Co-Founder and CEO of Collibra, will be joined by Teddie Wardi, Managing Director of Insight Partners, to unpack how he built a unicorn company from idea to conception to record growth. Felix : Yeah, sure.

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

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* Does Bob agree with the notion that channel sales have completely died in the world of SaaS? In terms of replacement, what does Bob believe will be the emerging trends in SaaS Go To Market that will replace it? 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.

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

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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. Then I went over to the sales department. The demo is the sale and we close everybody in month. So we launched the company in February of 2008. We launched the company in 2008.

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