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M&A Is Back! Melio’s $2.5B Exit to Xero — In Just 7 Years!

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It’s not just Wiz and Scale. Key Metrics at a Glance Exit Valuation : $2.5B (down from $4B peak in 2021) Revenue Multiple : 13.4x Takeaway : At scale, your growth rate depends on how many ways you can monetize value creation, not just seat expansion. discount from its 2021 peak valuation of $4B. exit represents a 37.5%

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Top 10 Tech Startup Founders in the UK for 2025

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As the co-founder and CEO of leading fintech company, OakNorth , – valued at over 1 billion – he has revolutionized lending for scale-up businesses through advanced data analytics, providing fast, flexible financing solutions for SMEs. Will Donnelly Will Donnelly is a passionate entrepreneur tackling the eldercare industry.

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The Top 10 Most Popular Sessions for 2021 SaaStr Annual — So Far!

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Session reg is now OPEN for 2021 SaaStrAnnual.com Sep 27-29 in San Mateo, CA / SF Bay Area. “Mastermind Masterclass: The SaaS Org Chart by Series with David Sacks” David Sacks, founder of Craft Ventures and Yammer, and ex-COO, leads us on a new Mastermind class on opening day. #2. It’s an epic line-up.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Amplitude at $150,000,000 in ARR

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They were founded in 2011 and IPO’d ten years later in 2021 at $150,000,000 in ARR, growing 57%, and have rocketed to a $7B+ valuation. From 41% in 2020 to 51% in 2021! They’re growing even faster at scale. CEO Spencer Skates owns 8.5%, CTO Curtis Liu 8.0%. 5 Interesting Learnings: #1. This is rare.

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Top SaaStr Content for the Week: Dave Kellogg, PayFit and Insider CEOs, Notion COO, Salesforce CMO and More!

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Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: 8 Signs a New VP Won’t Work Out. An updated classic SaaStr guide on how to know if that new VP you worked so hard to find, recruit and get on board … is really going to make it. 5 Scale-Up Mistakes for Startups with Dave Kellogg.

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5 Interesting Learnings from HubSpot at $2 Billion in ARR

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And while that growth level is a bit off the crazy pace of 2021 , it’s still mighty impressive in the current macro environment. Combining Strong Growth With A New Level of Efficiency. HubSpot’s operating margins have scaled into the double-digits the past two quarters for the first time. They did it. You can, too.

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

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Fast forward 1 year, 8 digital events, and 2 shots later, we announced in May 2021 that SaaStr Annual 2021 was on ! Fast forward to today, and there is an amazing amount of B2B-centric content out there, and many others have put together amazing events around the hard-learned lessons of scaling revenue and scaling SaaS companies.

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