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The 18 Awesome Women of SaaS in Asia

SaaStock

In 2012, she moved to Hong Kong and later on served as its Vice President there. In 2012, she became Assistant VP at JJL Overseas Education in Beijing, soon enough becoming its VP of Global Development. And then she studied software development at Fullstack Academy. Kathleen Ting. Lisa Zhang.

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5 Interesting Learnings from UserTesting at $160,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

UserTesting has opened offices in EMEA and APAC but has a bit lower international growth than I’d expect, given how global software development is now. Didn’t add an enterprise sales force until 2016 (9 years after founding), didn’t add “enterprise platform” until 2012. Room to grow.

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Adobe's $20B Figma acquisition highlights web-based collaboration trends

IT World

The company was founded in 2012, and Adobe said that it has since developed a dedicated following among developers. Figma offers a rich range of collaboration options for joint software development, as well as the popular FigJam collaborative whiteboarding environment.

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SaaStr’s Most Respected Leaders Awards 2019: The Top Ten

SaaStr

He then moved on to co-found Socialcam in 2012, participated in Y Combinator and eventually sold to Autodesk for $60M. Prior to Logickull Andy was a software developer at EDS (an HP Company). The company pivoted to cloud-based software in 2013 and counts Chubb, the City of Chicago and Burr Forman among its customers.

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Exclusive Talk: Continuous Documentation and Developer Happiness

Frontegg

In 2012, I co-founded ITC (Israel Tech Challenge), one of the biggest and most important code boot camps focusing on data science and cybersecurity in Israel. We were sure that there was a better way to onboard software developers faster and help them ramp up code-wise to achieve instant traction and eventually success.

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From $800k to $274M in 4 Years - The Story of Ariba

Tom Tunguz

Ultimately, SAP acquired the company in 2012 for $4.6B. Before its acquisition, which was consummated at the highest historical multiple of any software company , Ariba was the largest independent procurement software business. In a typical year, the company invested about 20 to 30% of their revenue in research and development.

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My First 16: Creating a Supportive Builder Community with Plaid’s Zach Perret

Andreessen Horowitz

This was in 2012, and we were based in New York City. And in 2012, if you’ll remember, that was when they kicked all the Zuccotti Park protestors outta Zuccotti Park. But along the way we found that the tool that we’d built was really interesting to a lot of other developers. And so we did that a lot.