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Reflecting on the Intercom journey – Karen Peacock and Des Traynor in conversation

Intercom, Inc.

I think there’s this dichotomy that people swing between bootstrapping versus venture capital. The state of tooling in 2010 or 2011 was that there was no Stripe, there was no subscription management and the idea of a SaaS economy was just nonsense. We incorporated in San Francisco on August 15th, 2011, I think.

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State of the Cloud 2019: Europa Edition with Alex Ferrara, Bessemer Venture Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. Now, I’m a venture capital investor. All right, so the answer is there are actually 61 a cloud unicorns, and we’ll flash them up. How long can this last?

Cloud 100
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How to Hire A Great VP Sales: The Full Video and Transcript

SaaStr

I just raised that venture capital. Below $99, it starts to become basically customer support. When we were acquired in July 15th, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Adobe was doing $4 billion, 75 percent perpetual. We’re getting to traction, we’ve got a million?and?a?half, half, two million in revenue. We all do this.