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5 Can’t Miss Sessions from SaaStr Annual 2020

SaaStr

“I was working for Salesforce in 2009 when I decided to start Okta, an identity management company that connects people with any application on any device. Many people, including my wife, told me I was crazy; the economy was in a downturn, and many skeptics doubted cloud computing had a real future.

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The Power of Simplicity: How Auth0 Takes on Complex Identity Challenges with a Developer Approach

OpenView Labs

While at Microsoft, much of my time was focused on then-emerging cloud technologies. I co-authored a couple of books about modern identity management, which we published in 2009 and 2011. I joined the company in the country where I was born—Argentina—but later came to the Redmond headquarters in Washington.