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Drata’s CEO Adam Markowitz on creating a culture of cyber security

Intercom, Inc.

Adam: Thank you, it feels a bit surreal still, mainly due to just how quickly the company has gone from seed to series, all in under a 12-month span. It allows companies to prove their real-time security posture just about any day of the year, so it accelerates their sales cycles and security reviews. How does that feel?

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SaaStr Podcast #341 with BetterCloud Founder & CEO David Politis

SaaStr

I went from Vocalocity, which became one of the top cloud PBX businesses in the world, went from there to a company called Cloud Sherpas, which was one of the first cloud consulting or cloud, I’d say, systems integrators, in the world and became one of the largest and one of the most successful. “Here’s the review.

Scale 163
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SaaStr Classic: Jyoti Bansal of Harness.io and AppDynamics; Dev Ittycheria of MongoDB (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

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. Actually that was one of the questions I had when I did my diligence was like, how do we, because as a VC has to look a lot of these open source businesses and the challenge was where do you put the Pay Wall?

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Subscription Rockstars: How HubSpot Went From Zero to $500+ Million in Annual Revenue

Chargify

Over the years, HubSpot continued pouring money into inbound marketing, and as a result, they now have an incredible lead generation system. HubSpot is one of the fastest growing SaaS companies of all time. In 2011, they moved to a quantity-based pricing model that revolved around the number of contacts a customer had.

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Human-Centered Design Network’s Gerry Scullion on inclusive architecture

Intercom, Inc.

I got an opportunity in 2011 working at Cochlear, which provides solutions for the profoundly deaf. Probably not, because design is a practical activity where ethics is more of a system of beliefs. And it’s the system that’s at fault. This is the system.” Gerry: Well, no. Rooting out design bias.

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The 18 Outstanding Speakers at SaaStock LatAm 2019

SaaStock

In 2016, André joined Superlógica Tecnologias, a management system designed to service small businesses with a recurring revenue model. Eduardo then served as the CEO of Oversea Consulting, helping companies in the U.S. In 2017, he co-founded B2B Stack, a software review marketplace that boosts the buying process of B2B tech in Brazil.

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SaaStr Podcast #388 with Okta CMO Ryan Carlson

SaaStr

Before Okta, Ryan was the Co-Founder and CEO @ Sproost, a bootstrapped online expert recommendation system. Harry Stebbings: Before Okta, Ryan was the cofounder and CEO at Sproost, a bootstrapped online expert recommendation system. I came back two different times that day, and that finally cinched the deal, and that was back in 2011.