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The Keys to Getting to $500M ARR In Just 7 Years with Attentive’s CEO

SaaStr

Everyone knew mobile commerce was exploding (from 15% in 2014 to 75% in 2024), but reaching customers on mobile was broken. The KPI Alignment System Have customers email explicit performance expectations Build custom reporting dashboards Weekly cross-team optimization meetings Formal performance reviews 2.

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5 Interesting Learnings From Five9 at $550,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

And in many cases, pre-Covid, they’d been working on decades-old server-based phone systems. Pre-Cloud systems, really. In 2014, when I invested in then up-and-comer Talkdesk , it had long since IPO’d and was struggling at a $200m market cap. And Five9 has grown from just 3 $1m ACV customers in 2014 to 91 today: #2.

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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. But all this was pretty novel back in 2014. We went digital!

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We?re About To See a Lot More SaaS Debt

SaaStr

Analysts predict that the success of Salesforce and others like it could pose a challenge to old-guard software companies, including SAP, Siebel Systems, PeopleSoft and Oracle.”. Digital Ocean took $40m in debt from Fortress in 2014 after doing a Series A with Andreesen Horowitz. interest rate due in 2025.

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Micro Startup Acquisition: The Definitive Guide to Buying and Selling Small Startups

Neil Patel

Hike Labs was founded in 2014, and by 2015, Pinterest had swooped in and acquired the San Francisco-based mobile publishing startup. The startup built a cloud-based office procurement system that helps customers streamline supplier management. It gives you the chance to review, negotiate, and snap up a deal before anyone else.

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Even More of SaaStr’s Most Respected Leaders Unveiled!

SaaStr

He rises to number ten on our list due to the high session average and initial bookmarks by our attendees. Zendesk went public under ticker $ZEN on the NYSE in 2014. From P&G, Jennifer became Chief Strategy Officer for Mincom, then President and CEO of Keynote Systems and finally CEO of PagerDuty which she has helmed since 2016.

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The Secrets to Building a World-Class, $2.3 Billion Inside Sales Team (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

We had custom CRM apps for the Weight Watchers group, scheduling systems for optical chains, inventory management for car dealers. We ended up creating a healthcare app that connected all the substance abuse manage care agencies with their providers, and their payers, and the state system. So people ask, why Duo?

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