SaaStr

OCTOBER 27, 2022

That’s why we give boards and leadership teams an elegant solution that simplifies governance. Launched in 2011, today, OnBoard serves as the board intelligence platform for more than 2,000 organizations and their 12,000 boards and committees in 32 countries worldwide.

Merchant Services

SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2024

Building Braze from $2M to $20M ARR It was 2011 in NYC, and Spencer became the second employee at Braze. 2011 focused on the mobile ecosystem, as the iPhone had been released four years prior and the app store two years after that. Braze invested in this, and the leadership team agreed to do so.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Big Bet #2: Find Tomorrow’s Great Anglers — Hire Talent With A Learning Mindset In 2010 and 2011, San Francisco was the place for SaaS talent. Freshdesk was launched in 2011 as its first product, and its second product was released in 2014, with faster growth than the first. It helped them get funding in the first round. The lesson?

Sales Hiring

SaaStr

JUNE 30, 2023

Braze was founded in 2011 when the most exciting mobile apps were a compass, a flashlight, and a game where you could feed fish. Blaze was founded in 2011. From 2011 to 2015, the only part of the mobile market that was making money was mobile gaming, but tricking children into buying fish food wasn’t a sustainable business.

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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.” This remarkable growth took four years to come true after Braze’s start in 2011. Stick to your convictions. Impressive, right?

Mobile

SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2020

A Good Day: Dec 31, 2009; Dec 31, 2010; Dec 31, 2011; Dec 31, 2012. A Bad Day: When I Had No Salary And Didn’t Get My Requested $10k Bonus Even Though I Brought In an Extra $300k All-Cash Upfront Deal. And again, Dec 31, 2018 and Dec 31, 2019. When we killed it every year on the last day of the year. New Years was spent in the office.

Sales Hiring

SaaStr

DECEMBER 11, 2021

Previously, he was the CEO and co-founder of EchoSign, which was acquired by Adobe in 2011. Jason Lemkin is the CEO of SaaStr, the world’s largest community of SaaS executives, founders, and entrepreneurs.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 12, 2020

May 5, 2011 to Oct 12, 2020 — 9 years, 5 months to build a $3.2B But if you want to start a SaaS company — you have to be willing to do the time. 24 months often to really get to a minimum sellable product and $1m in ARR. Often 5 years just to get to Initial Scale, and say $10m in ARR. And 7-10 years to get to something Big.

SaaS

SaaStr

MAY 22, 2019

His thoughts on leadership in a nutshell? “A from 2007-2011 which eventually became Twitch. From 200-2008 she held leadership positions at Allegis Corporation and Intuit before ultimately joining Intercom in 2017. He co-founded the company with Dharmesh Shah, the two met while they were grad students at M.I.T.

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SaaStr

JULY 22, 2023

.” — Brian Halligan, co-founder and chairman of HubSpot “Secondary” liquidity for SaaS founders has been part of the VC toolkit for funding later stage SaaS founders since at least 2010-2011 or so. I got a significant offer as we approached $10m ARR back in the day at Adobe Sign / EchoSign — and I should have taken it.

Scale

BetterCloud

JUNE 9, 2022

When we started BetterCloud back in 2011: Most companies used two or three SaaS apps, if that. We’ll be able to expand our product functionality and portfolio, expand our geographic reach, and continue to champion the broader SaaSOps community —all while continuing to build our special culture and teams at BetterCloud. We’ve come a long way.

Investment

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Talk: SaaS.City Bootcamp: Sales Leadership. Talk: SaaS.City Bootcamp: Sales Leadership. Talk: SaaS.City Bootcamp: Sales Leadership. In 2011, he co-founded Rock Content, the top provider of content marketing solutions in Latin America. Eduardo Müller, Founder & CEO, B2B Stack.

Technical Review

Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The more I got exposed to the details behind the Instacart business, the more it reminded me of OpenTable (where I had been CEO from 2007-2011). Focusing on the former was key to our investment decision. Both needed to convince businesses to join the platform with the promise that they would drive incremental revenue.

Marketplace as a Service

SaaStr

JUNE 25, 2019

I’ve been with the company since 2011. A little more about me, as I’ve said, I’ve been with Eventbrite since 2011. I started right at the end of 2011, and I started in the role of VP of engineering. This was what Eventbrite was in 2011 when I started. That’s my walk up music.

Engineering

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2020

Here are five quick takeaways: In 2011, Forbes Magazine called RealtimeBoard (Miro’s previous iteration) “a virtual whiteboard on steroids” We chatted to Andrey about this description to see if the shoe still fits today. Short on time? That’s where we come in and become helpful for those teams. Andrey: Absolutely.

Consulting

Sales Hacker

MARCH 3, 2020

As an expert in digital transformation and in fueling modern organizations for sustainable success prior to Know and Flourish, she spent over eight years at eMarketer in assorted individual contributor and leadership roles, and before that, the New York Daily News. Lessons of leadership [7:26]. Mindful leadership [12:00].

Sales Hiring

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 let me start with the basics on like, what do you look for when you have to hire someone in a sales leadership role, what do you look for? And you have a tremendous track record of doing that.

Sales Recruiting

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 9, 2021

Investment in cybersecurity companies has increased more than thirteenfold since 2011, and despite the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020 was a record year for cybersecurity with over $7.8 The company has hired new leadership and secured new partnerships following its recent $69 million Series B. billion invested in the industry globally.

Cybersecurity

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 25, 2019

“They’re empowering as a way to not only have leadership and the broader product team act in consistent ways, but also for the teams to hold leaders accountable” Des: And I think to tie this back to the where is it valuable. It’s the predictability of the leadership team, it’s the predictability of you, of me.

Engineering

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Imagine having the opportunity to sell into a company like Lyft in 2011. Back then, in 2011, Lyft was a small Series-A startup called Zimride with under 50 employees. Additional growth signals to look out for: Recent leadership hires. Founded in 2011. Website traffic increases. App downloads (if they have a mobile app).

Outsourcing Services

Totango

JANUARY 22, 2018

With more than 20 years in customer-focused leadership and management, Krista is an innovative leader passionate about engaging customers and creating excellence in customer experience across industries. Prior to joining Google in 2011, Dante has held several roles in higher education, consulting, and in software development.

Customer Success

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

We actually got to know Battery in around 2011 or so. It included this thought leadership, hey we need to put this out there because in general, physical therapists are not recognized for their expertise in the greater health care industry landscape. Venture capital always finds you, even when you’re in Phoenix.

Scale

SaaStr

JULY 1, 2021

Since 2011, over 500,000 projects have been built with PlanGrid. Then, if I like them, and there’s a mutual fit, and connection, then we bring them on for two sets of on site interviews, which are four hours each with both me and various members of the engineering and leadership team. Tracy Young : Hi, my name is Tracy Young.

VP of Engineering

Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

Action Rocket has years of experience strategizing and executing custom HTML and CSS email and CRM development programs for enterprise companies: Founded in 2011, the company works with a knit-team of experienced developers who are excellent at strategy, design, and coding of complex and customized email programs. Thought Leadership.

Software Review

A Smart Bear

JANUARY 4, 2018

Period, full-stop. And everyone else at WP Engine would tell you the same thing. So to everyone at WP Engine, let me repeat the message from one year ago: Look what we did !

Engineering

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

And I remember at Facebook, one of the things that I was really impressed by at the time, and we’re going back now to the 2011 era… “I remember Zuck used to talk about two timelines, roughly six months and 20 years. I was having a great time there, back in 2011. That’s the dream, that’s the vision. Paul: No comments.

VP of Engineering

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

And I remember at Facebook, one of the things that I was really impressed by at the time, and we’re going back now to the 2011 era… “I remember Zuck used to talk about two timelines, roughly six months and 20 years. I was having a great time there, back in 2011. That’s the dream, that’s the vision. Paul: No comments.

VP of Engineering

Buffer Resources

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Over ten years later, I don't find myself getting bored even though I created the iOS codebase back in 2011 (while initially freelancing for Buffer).” He moved into various senior and leadership roles (which makes sense, given his focus below!) ” 3.

VP of Engineering

ChurnZero

AUGUST 25, 2020

Godard was named to the Tech 50 list by Crain’s Business Chicago in September 2014 and to the Chicago Entrepreneur Hall of Fame in 2011. Previously Jay founded Customer Imperative, a consultancy focused on B2B SaaS, which eventually developed the Gain Grow Retain customer success leadership community.

Scale

User Pilot

MAY 30, 2024

In 2011, he wrote the widely renowned book “The Lean Startup,” which was followed by another book in 2017 called, “The Startup Way.” His most significant career milestone came when he co-founded IMVU, an online social networking and virtual world startup, in 2004. Eric is also the founder of Lean Startup Co.,

Innovation

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 25, 2018

Four of us signed the incorporation documents for Intercom Inc, in August 2011. Talk about this as early as possible, both as a leadership team and then with individuals. That’s what this talk (now essay) is about: people. Lessons I learned about people, through all the stages of Intercom, starting at the start. Narrator: It doesn’t.

Scaling

SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

Now we building a lot of stuff, and then when we feel that it’s working, it’s a machine, we can bring… Mallun : We had some grownups in the company, but we started the company in 2008, and then took it public in 2011. A lot of those grownups were hired at that point where we were about to go public, or public.

Sales Hiring

Totango

JANUARY 22, 2018

With more than 20 years in customer-focused leadership and management, Krista is an innovative leader passionate about engaging customers and creating excellence in customer experience across industries. Prior to joining Google in 2011, Dante has held several roles in higher education, consulting, and in software development.

Customer Success

Neil Patel

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Leadership can leverage your BPM platform to track tons of useful data for measuring productivity, forecasting costs, and further refining processes. Although many low-code platforms are built for general use, Creatio was originally founded as bpm’online in 2011. Supervisors have total visibility of all projects and jobs.

Payments

BrightBack

JANUARY 17, 2022

Brightback’s team will join Chargebee in various offices and remotely across the world, including the addition of Brightback’s executive team to Chargebee’s leadership team. Founded in 2011, Chargebee counts businesses, like Okta, Freshworks, Calendly, and Study.com amongst its global customer base. What’s Next?

Payment Methods

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

I co-founded Talkdesk in 2011. And so we exist for five years now. We are 150 people in between Paris New York and London. Cristina Fonseca: Hello everyone I’m Cristina Fonseca. Talkdesk is a cloud call center platform for enterprise companies. And basically, when there is a fire sometimes you need to fire.

Sales Hiring

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 2, 2019

She worked at HubSpot from 2009 to 2015 and was part of the enterprise scale up from 2011 through the IPO in 2014. She’s also a frequent speaker and panelist for the Women in Sales Leadership and Women in Tech communities; and was recently voted one of the top 20 women to watch by SMLA. Mary, welcome to the show.

Scale