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5 Interesting Learnings from Amplitude at $150,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

They were founded in 2011 and IPO’d ten years later in 2021 at $150,000,000 in ARR, growing 57%, and have rocketed to a $7B+ valuation. Some leaders like Slack have seen the same, but most Cloud leaders at scale with high NRR end up getting more and more of their revenue from their existing base, not new customers.

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I Asked 13 Buffer Leaders for Advice on Succeeding in My New Role

Buffer Resources

Given that their guidance is so universal — both for people just stepping into new roles and those at fast-paced companies like Buffer — I thought I’d share their wisdom here. I've always been one to jump on the new thing as soon as I discover it. Social Media is always changing, and platforms come and go.

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The 18 Awesome Women of SaaS in Asia

SaaStock

After five years at Ernst & Young in New York, she served as Vice President at Citigroup in the Big Apple. In 2011, she co-founded Grab (previously known as MyTeksi) together with fellow Malaysian and Harvard graduate Anthony Tan. Diny is dedicated to advancing women in tech to become leaders in their fields. Jessie Lam.

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The Road Now Taken: 4 SaaS Start-ups And Their Quest For Independent Growth

Outseta

The fact of the matter is there are countless ways that you can choose to build your business, and even amongst this new flock of independent SaaS companies there are significant, deliberate differences in the approaches these companies have taken. After raising a total of $450,000 in 2011, Buffer would raise a Series A round of $3.5M

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

Intercom, Inc.

And then, in the 50s, they introduced this new thing, and there was resistance. Evernote’s CTO on Your Biggest Security Worries From 3 to 300 Employees. Liam: The whole area is a new space. Adam: The space itself is new, but it’s one that’s been hypothesized for some time. New year, new job.

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My First 16: Welding Yourself to Early Customers with Marqeta’s Jason Gardner

Andreessen Horowitz

About My First 16 Our new video podcast series My First 16 features interviews with founders and CEOs of fintech companies about how they acquired their initial customers and the hard lessons they learned along the way. And we felt that we couldn’t fail them and fail these new customers coming in at the same time.

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The Future of Work: Announcing a New Strategic Partnership with Dropbox

BetterCloud

Later this year, Dropbox will offer their customers a new solution called BetterCloud for Dropbox, allowing businesses to enforce custom security policies, scan content for sensitive data, and automate critical processes. Here’s what the new best-of-breed world looks like. But it’s creating a fragmented workplace and new friction.

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