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The Toughest Roadblocks When Breaking Through to $15M ARR

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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 a little bit of drama.

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SaaStr Classic: Jyoti Bansal of Harness.io and AppDynamics; Dev Ittycheria of MongoDB (Video + Transcript)

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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. They don’t care like you had a successful company or not in the past. In this conference that’s a important thing like, you know, as companies start, they start getting a product market fit.

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What It Takes to Forge Your Own Category with Braze Co-Founder and CEO Bill Magnuson (Pod 601 + Video)

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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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SaaStr Podcast #388 with Okta CMO Ryan Carlson

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As for Ryan, he has spent an incredible 9 years at Okta in numerous different roles starting with running the product marketing team before moving to run the marketing team, leading to his promotion to CMO close to 5 years ago now. How does Ryan ensure cross-function working seamlessly from the very beginning with marketing? *

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SaaStr Podcast #398 with Salsify Co-Founder & CMO Rob Gonzalez

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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. I mean, you get hundreds and hundreds of people in the company and there’s personnel stuff that pops up. What does it mean to you?

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From Freemium to Explosive Growth in a Crowded Market – 8 Years of Learnings with Zoom (Video + Transcript)

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Mallun Yen : So, let’s start with being a solo founder, because it’s incredibly hard to start a company. Eric Yuan : Yes, when I started the company in 2011, I was already 41 years old, but I still feel that I was very young. Eric Yuan : So, when you start a company, every company’s different.

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SaaStr Podcast #364 with Figma Head of Sales Kyle Parrish

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I joined the company in 2011 when they had around 50 people as the third salesperson and shortly thereafter, within that first six months, raised almost a quarter billion dollars and the company started just growing exponentially.