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Q&A with Maria Pergolino, Anthony Kennada, Aaron Ross and Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

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And I remember being at that Dreamforce in 2009, which was awful. ” I’m like, that sounds awful. SMB numbers are harder to get with, but it’s like 60 or 70 for SMBs. And every vendor was just staring at each other like the world’s dead. I mean, literally. Every retail shop was closed by 2000.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Airtable and Shopify Plus — October 25, 2019

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It doesn’t matter even if it’s AWS’s fault or whoever’s fault, it doesn’t matter, you’re mission critical. The only objection when they invested was that this sort of store thing for SMB was so small, they projected the maximum exit would be seven hundred million. Loren Padelford: That’s true.