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Successes and Setbacks on the Road to $1B with Alessio Artuffo, President and COO at Docebo

SaaStr

Customers range from AWS skills-builder platforms with billions of users to Zoom using it for customers and employees. Docebo was started and funded in 2005 and became a SaaS player in 2012. In 2012, they started with a freemium model where people could go online with a credit card and pay $100 a month. Let’s dive into it.

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The SaaS Trust Crisis with Godard Abel (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And then I spent a year at Salesforce working on Marc Benioff’s extended leadership team, and really had a chance to learn how important trust can be, and also really learn from Salesforce, from Mark, how do you really build a global SaaS leader at scale? And that company grew very quickly. They can make donations for those charities.

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Q&A with Maria Pergolino, Anthony Kennada, Aaron Ross and Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And at some point between year 2012 and 20 of the bull run, there may not be as good as it is today. And I remember being at that Dreamforce in 2009, which was awful. ” I’m like, that sounds awful. This is the best of times in SaaS, right? We’re 11 years in the bull run. Any thoughts? I mean, literally.

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Founder’s Guide to Scaling Applications: When to Build, When to Buy and What Breaks by Algolia Co-founder (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

We founded the company 2012 in Paris. Today, there is way more variety of hardware on cloud provider when it was a case in 2012. And we were using a solution from Amazon AWS… We had one big issue first, which was a number of regions they were supporting were not the same vendors. So today we are a distributed team.

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Key Lessons from a $5B SaaS Category Leader (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And those of us and those of you who are involved in these companies, even the successful ones look an awful lot more like this. Responses was acquired by Oracle, Neolane was acquired by Adobe all in 2012 and 2013. They pioneered things like content marketing, thought leadership. And it’s the reaction to those problems.

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PODCAST 28: How High Growth SaaS Companies Build and Lead Sales Teams w/ Chris Degnan

Sales Hacker

The secrets to effective leadership and management. We started building that in 2012. We are native to the cloud, we are on AWS, we are on Microsoft, Azure, and next year we’ll be on Google Cloud as well. Using a network of trusted peers to accelerate your development. The single number that drives the revenue model.

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The Answers to Scaling, Hiring, and Everything Else: A SaaStr Europa AMA with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin (Pod 585 + Video)

SaaStr

I’m going to get the numbers wrong, I think Amazon has 10,000 open positions out in AWS. In terms of when, actually, the timing hasn’t changed since the first SaaStr post here in 2012. That’s not helping the lack of hiring, and everyone that’s big is hiring like there’s no tomorrow. One’s not enough.