Intercom, Inc.
DECEMBER 31, 2019
Putting narrative order on the past decade, a 10-year-period that has somehow remained stubbornly nameless, is quite the challenge, but it’s impossible to make sense of the 2010s without understanding the role of software. Consider WhatsApp, founded in 2009 and now hosting more than 65 billion messages every day.
SaaStr
OCTOBER 6, 2023
They collect the payment online and take a 15% fee for every booking. It’s 2009, and the Obama Inauguration is happening in town. Airbnb handles the payments and gets you a guest, and now your rent is covered for the next couple of months. You don’t have to have a complicated problem/solution slide. That’s it.
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OPEXEngine
JULY 28, 2020
They define a bold path to leadership, they make difficult portfolio choices, they allocate resources strategically and they build strong capital structures. When Google launched the Android mobile operating system in 2008, for instance, it was a tiny speck in a mobile universe dominated by Symbian OS and Apple’s iOS.
SaaStr
AUGUST 7, 2020
I am Matt Garratt, Managing Partner of Salesforce Ventures, and we will be talking about the secrets to building a $1 billion vertical SaaS company, and we’re very fortunate to have two executives from leading enterprise software companies who have done this. I was amazed by the app exchange. Actually, two. Matt Garratt: Fantastic.
SaaStr
DECEMBER 10, 2019
WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. I’ve learned a lot about just the financial system at scale. Bill Clerico : We, I think are going after super exciting part of the market, which is software companies trying to embed payments.
SaaStr
AUGUST 6, 2019
We have a background doing software and standards for trade, and we thought that there’s a massive opportunity in this space. It is if you took LinkedIn, combined it with the app platform from Salesforce, and looked at the domain, which is supply chains. Third parties are developing apps for our platform.
SaaStr
JUNE 16, 2020
And he also has the, I don’t know, benefit or dubious distinction, but lived through this before in 2008 and 2009. So we have over 260 portfolio companies globally, it’s all enterprise software, predominantly SaaS. So a lot of lessons that can be taken from there as well. Adnan Chaudhry: Thanks, Matt. Good to be here.
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