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10 Years In Tech

Outseta

As I’m now 10 years in, I feel like I can *officially* say that I have significant “experience”—I’ve definitely packed a wide range of experiences into the past decade. There’s an awful lot of nuance here and the devil is in the details. Hopefully jack up your growth rate enough to be acquired for a massive sum of money.

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Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot: From Day 0 to IPO. What Went to Plan. What Most Certainly Didn’t (Video, Podcast + Transcript)

SaaStr

Let’s assume the probability of success for a SaaS company is roughly one percent, and that formula is true, given some definition of success, right? The issue the SMBs had was, “Well, I’m a 20-person consulting company. ” We didn’t do any annual contracts. Work with me here. It’s OK.

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Founder’s Guide to Scaling Applications: When to Build, When to Buy and What Breaks by Algolia Co-founder (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And we were using a solution from Amazon AWS… We had one big issue first, which was a number of regions they were supporting were not the same vendors. The engineering team was super, super small at this moment. When we did this studies and where we were having to sign the contract with the AnyCasts provider, we took some time.

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Engineering Your Own “Luck”: The 3 Key Rules of Building Globally Distributed Teams with Eventbrite (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

I started right at the end of 2011, and I started in the role of VP of engineering. We kept up pretty well, but we definitely had some challenges with that. The third rule is definitely for sure the most important. A little more about me, as I’ve said, I’ve been with Eventbrite since 2011.