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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Matt Garratt, Trisha Price, David Schmaier, Rob Bernshteyn, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

We were actually built out of a bank called Live Oak Bank and Live Oak Bank was founded in 2009 and they had a need for a completely digital bank. And they do on operational efficiency frankly and our value proposition at Coupa has always been to help companies become more operationally efficient.

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PODCAST 135: Pushing Through the Zone of Discomfort Towards Personal Growth with AJ Bruno

Sales Hacker

” And that helped a lot, and picked my footing up, and eventually by the end of that year, 2009, I want to say, I was one of the top 10 sellers in the company. We actually brought in a CEO for our series B, Eric Holston, and Eric was operational efficient. This is what you say.” Sam Jacobs: Wow. That was his thing.