Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Inspired by Andreessen’s maxim, in 2014 Benedict Evans coined the phrase “ Mobile is eating the world ,” which in retrospect feels like it downplayed just how much our daily lives have become consumed by our smartphones. . What was perhaps less predictable was the ensuing prevalence of the subscription-based business model.

Payment Solutions 259

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Software SaaS Payments 259

Frontegg

MAY 27, 2021

This philosophy applies to both low and high touch business models, where the vendor has to eliminate all potential usability problems that may arise. Founded : 2011 Known customers: Facebook, IBM, Microsoft, AWS, Unity, Udemy, Shopify Price starts at: $38/month per user. #2 Best For: Product Adoption.

Payment Solutions 98

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments Scale 98

SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

It was around that time about 12 years ago that Jeff Bezos launched AWS, and some of you may remember that, when he did this, Wall Street analysts were looking at him and saying, “Why would you take what’s already a very unprofitable business and drive it further into the red by investing in this AWS initiative?”

Cloud 100

Cloud Scale AWS Machine Learning 100

SaaStr

AUGUST 8, 2023

Strategic finance can be thought of as a project management function for your company’s underlying business model or a BizOps team that operates within a more financial lens. Strategic Finance optimizes a company’s underlying business model to create long-term value by increasing revenue and decreasing costs.

Scale 177

Scale Finance Outsourcing Services Sales Recruiting 177

SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2019

Since Sameer joined SendGrid at CEO in 2014, the company has quadrupled its revenue, more than doubled its employees, experienced a successful initial public offering and was recently acquired by Twilio in a transaction valued at approximately $2 billion. I won’t lie. You don’t make a CEO change if everything is going perfectly.

Scale 132

Scale Acquisition Scaling Sales Hiring 132

SaaStr

JULY 10, 2020

Get back into experimentation mode with our business model, with our pricing, to really think about not just how we can shrink costs, but inflect growth on the top line so we could ultimately control our own destiny, which is in fact what we did. So we spent a lot of time there. Some of you know this, but some of you don’t.

Scale 188

Scale Sales Hiring Pricing Sales Recruiting 188

SaaStr

MAY 21, 2019

78 times in the AWS … ADABAS was referenced in the Amazon press release and earnings announcement. Now, what’s really interesting is the peak of the market was actually in March 2014, where companies were trading at ten times AOR multiple. Now, let’s assume that you did a fundraise in March 2014, guess what?

Cloud 167

Cloud Scale Finance Retention 167