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A Look Back: Slack at $30,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

Android followed after, and that really, late 2009, early 2010, that suddenly changed. Stewart, totally disabuse me if I get it wrong, but notwithstanding all the blue chip logos you have, you’ve got a very core software development, project management core. That didn’t come until another eight months later.

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Twilio: The First $100m+ ARR with Jeff Lawson, CEO/Co Founder (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Twilio is a cloud communications platform that allows software developers to embed communications into the apps that they’re building. At the end of the day, Twilio still sells communications, AWS still sells servers, but the way we’re selling it is different than how it was done in yesteryear.

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SaaStr Podcast #218: Twilio Founder, Jeff Lawson & SendGrid CEO, Sameer Dholakia on Why Developer First Is A Maturation In The Supply Chain Of Software

SaaStr

Jeff Lawson is the Founder & CEO @ Twilio, the company building the future of communications allowing you to engage customers like never before on voice, SMS, WhatsApp or Video. Sameer joined the company in 2010, when Citrix acquired VMLogix, where he served as CEO and doubled revenues during each year of his tenure.

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Top 30 SaaS Companies in the US

SmartKarrot

Founded in: 2010. Used by millions of companies and software developers across the globe, GitHub is a software development tracking and version control repository. Founded in: 2010. It also helps improve team communication. Founder: Girish Mathrubootham. Founded in: 2008. Founder: Stu Sjouwerman.

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4 Neglected Truths About Live Chat For Start-ups

Outseta

The rise of live chat is a good thing for B2B buyers and B2B sellers - it’s a direct response to the way people have increasingly chosen to communicate over the past few decades. But like any new software trend, make sure you’re not blindly following the masses like a lemming off of a cliff. Both were making a lot of noise online.

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How to Retain Employees For 10+ Years with Alf Ruppert

FastSpring

Alf Ruppert Yes, it started because I know the very first piece of software we did for Daylite was to connection for phone systems, so that you can push a button and then call out or if somebody’s calling in, you can see which customers calling in. And the problem was, I have no clue in software development.

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Top 30 SaaS Companies in India

SmartKarrot

is an Indian software development company headquartered in Chennai. The services provided by Zoho include Zoho CRM, inventory management, mobile application development, project time tracking, collaborative client portal, and more. The Indian SaaS company aims at developing advanced mobile-first business communication systems.