SaaStr

JUNE 10, 2020

Before founding BetterCloud, David was an early employee of Cloud Sherpas (acquired by Accenture), where he led the company to become the leading cloud services partner to SMB worldwide. How has David seen the rate of cloud adoption within enterprise over the last 5 years? Has it been faster or slower than he thought?

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

And as nice as verbal assurances and a handshake are, as you grow and try to sign with more established, enterprise-level companies, you’ll find yourself more and more having to provide proofs of compliance before closing the deal: The shift to the cloud, more and more data breaches – it really put a magnifying glass on third-party risk.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

I co-founded Talkdesk in 2011. Talkdesk is a cloud call center platform for enterprise companies. Right now the company is more than 300 people based between Lisbon Portugal and Porto as well in San Francisco. And so we exist for five years now. We are 150 people in between Paris New York and London. And that empirically.

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SaaStr

JULY 25, 2021

I still remember the very first time I met Dev back in 2011 and I was this engineer turn first-time founder, CEO running the business. So that’s much more restrictive in terms of what customers can do with a technology or frankly, what the cloud providers can do with your technology. Dev Ittycheria: Exactly.

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OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

My personal frustration was not reason enough to launch a company, but I quickly realized just how acute and pervasive these problems were for a variety of roles across many industries. With software “ eating the world ,” as Marc Andreessen wrote in the WSJ back in 2011, every company was going to be facing these technology-related problems.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Both of us and our third co-founder, Jason Purcell, were at a company called Endeca, which was a search engine for e-commerce, exited to Oracle for over a billion dollars in 2011. So I think we’re in a generation now, which is more, what is only uniquely possible in the cloud. And so that understanding has evolved a lot.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

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.

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