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From Bootstrapped to Category Leader: Lessons from Zapier’s Founders

OpenView Labs

Today, we are a 100% distributed team of over 250 people providing millions of loyal users with the ability to connect business apps and automate workflows. Since our founding in 2011, we’ve come a long way. We focused on addressing customers’ specific challenges rather than a broad and generic sales pitch. And I learned a lot.

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What Are The Top 50 SaaS Companies in 2020?

SmartKarrot

This is increasing the spending as more and more features are being offered, through acquisitions or expansion. The Atlassian Corporation has reached billions in revenue even without an enterprise sales team, all by creating user-friendly software development, team collaboration, project management tools including JIRA and Confluence.

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SaaStr Podcast #212: Nick Mehta, CEO @ Gainsight Discusses Why Burying Customer Success Under Sales Does Not Work

SaaStr

As for Nick, prior to Gainsight he was the CEO @ LiveOffice where he grew cloud archiving ARR from $2m in 2008 to $25m in 2011 and drove and negotiated the acquisition by Symantec for $115m in cash. What should the optimal sales to customer success relationship look like? Why does this have such a high rate of failure?