SaaStr
DECEMBER 14, 2021
The reality was that they were heavily relying on the enterprise deals closed by the leadership team. As Ohta says, “Around 2014 in Q4, we were about to cross a $2.5 Even after that exciting third year of growth, leadership at Treasure Data began noticing the lack of product-market fit. million and $1.2
SaaStr
AUGUST 8, 2023
In 2014, storage had historically been Dropbox’s most significant cost driver, with hundreds of millions of dollars spent on AWS. Miao’s experience at Dropbox helps illustrate how the financial team’s input can help a company reach a more successful growth path. So, Miao and the team got to work.
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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. . It is very possible that no other company has done as much to shape our decade as Jeff Bezos’s behemoth. Rise of mobile.
Sales Hacker
MARCH 1, 2019
It’s for all roles in the revenue organization from Demand Gen, to Sales Development, Ops/Enablement, Management, Leadership, Account Executives, and even Customer Success. In 2014, Manny co-founded Outreach in 2014. Mark joined Outreach in 2014 as its first “employee”, taking the job as a 100% commissioned contractor.
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?”
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. And that was an important shift, I think, for our leadership team.
SaaStr
JULY 10, 2020
I’ve held a bunch of technology leadership roles in startups, in rocket ships and turnarounds, including about 10 years at Google, and just over three years leading efforts at Evernote. So over the course of those 20 or so odd years in technology leadership roles. Thank you, Jason and the SaaStr community, for including me.
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