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SaaStr is Turning 10! How a Blog Turned into A Global SaaS Community for 250,000+

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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. Founders were able to recruit on-site. It was a hit!

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38 Bright Asian SaaS Stars

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Talkpush is a conversational recruiting CRM that allows employers and job seekers to connect in new ways across the globe. It also gives recruiters a faster process through its chatbot and application management tool. Founded : 2014. Founded : 2014. Founded : 2014. Founders : Max Armbruster. Founded : 2012.

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Scaling to $150M ARR and Beyond with Grafana Labs and Lightspeed

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Grafana Labs Origin Story Grafana Labs started as an open-source project back in 2014 with three co-founders, including Raj. Back then, remote first was a recruiting advantage. Cloud was a big unlock for monetization. All they sold was the visualization layer with no sales team. How did it come to be? Today, not so much.

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Even More of SaaStr’s Most Respected Leaders Unveiled!

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About Mikkel… According to Mikkel “the cloud’s biggest days are yet to come”, his stories of a time when “the cloud” wasn’t exactly the reality it is today inspired SaaStr attendees to heavily bookmark his session ahead of the event. Zendesk went public under ticker $ZEN on the NYSE in 2014.

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A Look Back: Everything Breaks When You Go Into Hypergrowth Mode, with UiPath’s CMO (Europa Video + Transcript)

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I can give you marketing examples about how robots are sitting on my laptop and then in the cloud doing work for us that we hate doing, the work that is done in a contact center or in an airline or work that’s done in your finance business. 2014: $500k rev. We do have a network of recruiters. UIPath History. seed round.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Byron Deeter, Elliott Robinson, Henry Schuck, and Jason Lemkin

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373: Bessemer’s 5th Annual State of the Cloud Report returns for a definitive look at the cloud industry today. We want to take you through the cloud journey over the last several years. Now, the cloud index fell along with it. If you go back to before 2014, what you see is the power of the cloud.

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8 Tough Lessons from Closing 12,000 Customers at WebPT (Video + Transcript)

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Then I went over to the sales department. The demo is the sale and we close everybody in month. It’s amazing what the efficiencies and the low costs of the cloud can allow you to do as far as industry specialization. The first thing you bring in your playbook on sales. We schedule a demo in the same day.

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