SaaStr

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Bill Magnuson, Co-founder and CEO of Braze, remembers his company’s founding in 2011 in an office with bare concrete floors—an austerity that he opines as “probably an ingredient for category creation.” Over his decade of experience, he has a few thoughts on how you can both envision and create your company’s path.

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Chargify

AUGUST 6, 2019

The founder acknowledged that Lyons was entitled to his own opinion, addressed some of his critique of the company culture and of the business model and even agreed with some of the points he raised. In 2011, they moved to a quantity-based pricing model that revolved around the number of contacts a customer had. Image source).

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SaaStr

JUNE 25, 2019

We’ve been a company since 2016. I’ve been with the company since 2011. As far as I know, the mission of the company has been the same ever since the start. A little more about me, as I’ve said, I’ve been with Eventbrite since 2011. This was what Eventbrite was in 2011 when I started.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Its focus is on businesses in Big Data, mobile, and SaaS. Patrick also sits on the Board of Directors of a number of portfolio companies. In 2011, he co-founded Rock Content, the top provider of content marketing solutions in Latin America. Diego served as the CMO of the company for seven years and became its CEO in 2018.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

I was working on a startup that was an early mobile payment platform. And actually, one of the restaurants burned down and took our whole prototype with us, and that was pretty much the end of that company. I mean, you get hundreds and hundreds of people in the company and there’s personnel stuff that pops up.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

That was 2011. And interestingly, we did a project a few years ago where we sort of took a look at the values we’d written down in 2011 and asked ourselves, are these values still relevant and how well did we do in terms of executing against them? And it’s one of the seven values we have in place.

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SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2019

At Twilio, we had a set of nine things for our original values and we set those out in 2011 and then a few years later when we realized that there was a bunch of things you missing about what we expected from a leadership standpoint, actually. If you think about every company is becoming a software company.

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