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. We went digital!

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

Rachel Hepworth: In 2014 and 2015, Slack had this incredible growth, but it was growth off a small base, based on very early adopters. For Slack, that was clearly the engineering and dev communities, who love new tools. We use a multi-touch attribution system. There’s no first click or last click.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Great to see a lot of repeat attendees and some new ones. A thanks to [Marsh 00:00:34] for stepping in at the beginning of the month, and a great session with our own Jason Warner and Adrian, the CTO of Zendesk. Lionetti, the CMO at Confluent, and most recently, the CTO from Zendesk, Adrian. I’m Travis Bryant.

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SaaStr

APRIL 9, 2019

And also, we always prioritize the features requested by our existing customers over the new prospects. Mallun Yen : So, you were an engineer by training and then you became an engineering leader, as the CTO of Webex, and then you became a CEO. You know, earlier today we talked about creating a new category. Welcome Eric.

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2025

The companies building on this new stack will have 10x advantages over those still running traditional architectures. As Andrew Bosworth (Meta CTO) noted: “This is our space race…there’s very few secrets. The Scary Part: Energy consumption is exploding. Data centers now consume 1.5% Token Costs Collapsed 99.7%

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

I’d taken lots of trips and managed a team out there and I decided to basically make the move to the Bay Area in 2014 as a CIO for a company called Qualys. And by business technology function I want to define that because sometimes there’s a overlap with the CTO from an engineering side. I was super excited by it.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 10, 2024

It’s in New York. Because it was 2014, 2015, and he’s having Mark Roberge in the early days of HubSpot before they went public. The other thing is, I live in New Orleans. Levelset was the only venture-backed company in New Orleans. I don’t even know if it exists anymore. Bowery Capital.

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