SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

Finally, before YesWare, she was VP of Sales @ Engine Yard, where she tripled monthly recurring revenue, over the course of her 3+ year tenure, in 3 key leadership roles. Michelle started the company during an economic downturn in 2009. And so we started to work on this in 2009. Loving our podcast content? Michelle Zatlyn: Yeah.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

I remember about three years ago, Marc Benioff gave some interview and he said his biggest regret was not continuing to hire sales professionals through 2009, his number one regret. And I remember being at that Dreamforce in 2009, which was awful. And every vendor was just staring at each other like the world’s dead.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Blake Morgan is an author, keynote speaker, and customer experience futurist with experience in customer experience leadership services. Temkin has expertise in customer service, marketing, interaction design, and leadership strategies. Blake Morgan. Bob Thompson. Carla Johnson. Martin Hill. Micah Solomon. Pete Abilla.

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SaaStr

JUNE 3, 2020

The company went public in 2009 and was acquired by Yahoo in 2012 for $270m, a 50% premium on existing share price. The company went public in 2009, and was acquired by Yahoo in 2012, for $270 million, a 50% premium on the existing share price. So we had a good head of sales prior, and he helped us grow a bunch.

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SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2019

Before that, he worked for 12 years at Trilogy, where he held key leadership roles helping the company grow from a start-up to a $300 million business. How do Jeff and Sameer think about what what truly special leadership looks like today? They got going in 2009. We call them our leadership principles.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

By 2009, unemployment for ‘08 graduates was at 9% : The door to the real world had slammed shut just as we were about to walk through it. VP of Global Innovation at Outreach. Be innovative.”. Then I met with our leadership team and said, ‘We have to change how we approach our clients and how we work with clients.’

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Bringing Sales & Leadership with Heart and Ladies Happy Hour to the sales community. I went through a VP of Sales Program with SaaSy Sales Leadership — the moment I realized I didn’t want to be a VP of Sales. She is a Speaker and Hostess for LinkedIn Live. What is one a-ha moment you’ve had in your sales career?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

I think this leads us to lesson number four, which is continuously innovate through proactive listening. We were profitable by 2009. It included this thought leadership, hey we need to put this out there because in general, physical therapists are not recognized for their expertise in the greater health care industry landscape.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 12, 2020

I actually graduated from college in 2009, during the recession, horrible time to graduate, but it created a lot of opportunity for me to start getting innovative about how I was going to actually get a job. How did you make your way into the world of SaaS, and then how did that transition to Notion happen? He responded.

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SaaStr

JULY 26, 2019

Why does Eric believe that the bar for execution in SaaS in 2019 is so much higher than in 2009? It’s a relatively innovative and new model. Eric Christopher: I think about in 2009, a success story that you’d see in the TechCrunch and a big outcome would be that you built a billion-dollar company over eight to ten years.

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Buffer Resources

JANUARY 9, 2024

” The site is an excellent resource for ideas on celebrating this important international day, from promoting women and girls' creative and artistic talent, to supporting women and girls in leadership. Releasing exclusively through the McDonald’s App this Monday.

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Buffer Resources

JANUARY 9, 2024

” The site is an excellent resource for ideas on celebrating this important international day, from promoting women and girls' creative and artistic talent, to supporting women and girls in leadership. Releasing exclusively through the McDonald’s App this Monday.

Social Media 52

Social Media Branding Trends Marketing 52

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

And then I convinced him to come back in 2009, and the rest is history. I mean, I’ll just tell you from 2009, ’10 and ’11, every year we waited, our valuation went up $100 million back then. We had it, we knew we could innovate. And you don’t matter, and we operate. We’re working together now.

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2020

Michelle started the company during an economic downturn in 2009. And so we started to work on this in 2009. So we started Cloudflare in 2009 and today we have about 1400 people around the world. So I’m going to answer your question with that frame of mind because I think back to 2009, and it was really hard to get a job.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 19, 2020

Portag3 Ventures Partner Chris O’Neill discusses leadership and teamwork lessons he’s picked up in his career through a hobby and a metaphor of sailing. So over the course of those 20 or so odd years in technology leadership roles. Chris O’Neill | Partner @ Portag3 Ventures.

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2024

We add human touches to as many things as possible, and then we innovate and listen to our employees, at scale, and the results, I think, speak for themselves. Katie Burke: 2009, I believe. Jason Lemkin: 2009. Katie Burke: So, what we do instead is we out-care and we out-execute. Jason Lemkin: When was this written?

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2020

I’ve held a bunch of technology leadership roles in startups, in rocket ships and turnarounds, including about 10 years at Google, and just over three years leading efforts at Evernote. So over the course of those 20 or so odd years in technology leadership roles. Thank you, Jason and the SaaStr community, for including me.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 22, 2018

They’ve of course innovated in many areas since, but TaskRabbit was effectively trying to create this peer-to-peer local sharing economy model, which was new and different, and it just didn’t get to pure product/market fit quite as quickly. Using at Airbnb as an example, when I first saw it in 2009, it looked so niche.

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