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Successes and Setbacks on the Road to $1B with Alessio Artuffo, President and COO at Docebo

SaaStr

Customers range from AWS skills-builder platforms with billions of users to Zoom using it for customers and employees. The LMS market segment is big, and Docebo thinks about it in two folds. Between 2016 and 2023, you see the ACV (average contract value) going up and up. Let’s dive into it.

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State of the Cloud 2019: Europa Edition with Alex Ferrara, Bessemer Venture Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

It was around that time about 12 years ago that Jeff Bezos launched AWS, and some of you may remember that, when he did this, Wall Street analysts were looking at him and saying, “Why would you take what’s already a very unprofitable business and drive it further into the red by investing in this AWS initiative?”

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Everything You Need to Know About Freemium Pricing

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I actually wrote about the phenomenon , which I called ‘The Slow Death of Freemium’, back in 2016. For certain customer profiles or market segments, it may be necessary to combine freemium with a sales team. In their freemium plan, AWS offers a year’s worth of micro instance for free – a time-bound freemium model.

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After Selling For $580M, Here’s What I Learned About SaaS During My Time At Buildium

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In this post I’m going to share the most important lessons about growing a SaaS business that I learned at Buildium—collectively, these things had an awful lot to do with the company being valued so highly. I was offered a job as Buildium’s first full-time marketing hire, pulling in a cool $38,400 annually.