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SaaStr Podcast #356 with Atrium Co-Founder Pete Kazanjy

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Prior to founding Atrium, Pete founded TalentBin, culminating in their exit to Monster Worldwide in February 2014. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Pete made his way into the world of SaaS and how he came to be one of the leading figures on sales operations and management that he is today. * This is in Founding Sales , as a result.

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Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot: From Day 0 to IPO. What Went to Plan. What Most Certainly Didn’t (Video, Podcast + Transcript)

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million in 2014.). I’m going to skip by my life story, and how I grew up as a small child in India, and how the dusty streets influenced my take on unit economics, and SaaS subscription models. We had a notable funding round in October of 2014. We’ve got a bunch of MBAs trying to build a SaaS business here.

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Founder’s Guide to Scaling Applications: When to Build, When to Buy and What Breaks by Algolia Co-founder (Video + Transcript)

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We were end of 2014. The engineering team was super, super small at this moment. We were in total four engineers working on the product, including me, including our VP of Engineering, so four in total. So we have contracted with them and they give us a lot of advantage of learnings. So very, very small team.

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