SaaStr
MAY 23, 2025
The New Exit Reality Analysis shows that 99th percentile exits have grown from $1.4B (2005-2009) to $10.2B They’re the “AWS of AI” and will capture massive value. But the very, very best ones compound … almost forever. The top 20% that IPO will more than cover the mediocre returns from the rest. in recent years.
Sales Hacker
MAY 13, 2025
And so I kind of had to bone up on the history of, what had gone on between, call it the late nineties and 2007 in the search space, we’re in a moment there in 2008, 2009 where we’re just getting our. When Yext started our core business as it exists today in about 2009 or 2010 Yelp was something like 65% of all online reviews.
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SaaStr
DECEMBER 9, 2020
The old sales playbooks of 2009 and even 2019 may not work as well in 2021. These days, it can really feel like the Old Bag of Sales Tricks is starting to just not work anymore: With maybe 500x the SaaS vendors of 10 years ago, there’s so much noise. Emails get blocked, spam filtered. No one even has voice mail anymore.
Frontegg
MAY 27, 2021
Founded : 2011 Known customers: Facebook, IBM, Microsoft, AWS, Unity, Udemy, Shopify Price starts at: $38/month per user. #2 Founded: 2009 Known customers: Amazon, Slack, Zoom, Lyft, Google, Shopify, Salesforce Price starts at: 2.9% + 30 Cents. #6 Best For: Product Adoption. 6 ChargeBee. Best For: Subscription Management, Billing.
Outseta
JANUARY 20, 2020
In this post I’m going to share the most important lessons about growing a SaaS business that I learned at Buildium—collectively, these things had an awful lot to do with the company being valued so highly. My role at Buildium In late 2009 the economy had tanked and I had a newly minted MBA but no real job experience.
BetterCloud
APRIL 15, 2020
AWS was launched in 2006, and the term “DevOps” was first used in 2009. We run Okta and most of our apps are run in AWS and GCP, so it wasn’t too difficult for us. The people who have been able to do it, including our customer panelists today, have been trailblazers over the last five to 10 years. All of this is SaaSOps.
Andreessen Horowitz
APRIL 30, 2024
A lot of the things that we ultimately did when I was running Global Payments from 2013 to 2023, a lot of things that we ultimately did were not even like a glint in my eye back in 2009, 2010 when I was just thinking about coming over. And I thought really it was the right platform on which to build a foundation of growth.
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