SaaStr

JULY 14, 2022

This led to our first meet-ups in 2013 and 2014, the first SaaStr Annual in 2015 , the industry’s leading podcast in 2016, the first SaaS founder coworking space in 2017, and SaaStr Pro , the first learning management system for SaaS founders in 2018. But all this was pretty novel back in 2014. It was a hit!

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2025

4% during initial cloud buildout) What’s Really Happening: This isn’t just “cloud 2.0” If you’re not thinking about how to leverage this massive compute capacity, you’re missing the biggest infrastructure opportunity since the cloud transition. The Scary Part: Energy consumption is exploding.

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SaaStr

JULY 28, 2021

We’ve convinced more than a thousand great big companies to put their financial data into our private cloud. I retired from SunGard Treasury Systems as their CTO. Bootstrapped because nobody in their right mind would have actually invested in us back then and took it up until 2014 as a bootstrapped company.

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

And so we started building a cloud solution, but it was a long arduous journey. And I thank a lot of that to actually Met Gourniak, who I hired at that time. It’s in the cloud. We built a CPQ in the cloud, can we partner?” We became the number one partner for Salesforce in the cloud.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Julian Lemoine, Co-Founder, and CTO of Algolia will share his lessons learned on how to stay focused and innovative as you scale while also avoiding the innovation for innovation’s sake pitfalls. Julien Lemoine | Co-founder and CTO @Algolia. So I’m Julien, Co-founder and CTO of Algolia. We were end of 2014.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 2, 2020

I retired from SunGard Treasury Systems as their CTO. Bootstrapped, because nobody in their right mind would have actually invested in us back then and took it up until 2014 as a bootstrapped company. In 2014, I sold a majority to Silver Lake Sumeru and ICONIQ. I’m also a serial entrepreneur. I got bored and started BlackLine.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Trusted by GTM leaders at the likes of Snowflake Five9 and Google Cloud to improve GTM efficiency. Because it was 2014, 2015, and he’s having Mark Roberge in the early days of HubSpot before they went public. Let’s go hire somebody. Okay, now you got to go figure out how to hire and who to hire.

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