SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. Retail was mentioned twice, that’s it, and AWS was mentioned 78 times, so it’s probably not surprising that they’re doing this. How long can this last?

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FastSpring

MARCH 10, 2023

This is 2014 classified right in there you, you in did you pick up consulting clients? What what do you think the danger is of being too focused on those types of venture capital type ideas. It’s interesting. So you had you publish all your content on the internet? Or was it was it straight to software?

Consulting 78

Consulting Underperforming Technical Team Interviewing Software 78

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’ve never been behind a table before so I feel very talk show hosty.

Scale 132

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SaaStr

MAY 21, 2019

78 times in the AWS … ADABAS was referenced in the Amazon press release and earnings announcement. Carbon Black, DocuSign, SurveyMonkey, Tenable, Smartsheet, Dropbox; fantastic names that in aggregate, when you put together the three ways to buy stocks, public, IPOs, private venture capital dollars and then outright acquisitions.

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