Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

After all, what is the open-ended upside of the company that started out selling CRM software that then turned into Salesforce with over 6 different products? ” —Deputy CISO, AWS “In my career, the deployment of the CrowdStrike Falcon platform was perhaps the easiest global security rollout I’ve seen.”

Travel 112

Travel Forecasting Pricing Scale 112

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 13, 2018

I saw we had the opportunity to do that in London and to do something that will be new for Facebook, in the same way that AWS was a new business model and product line for Amazon and a bet that paid off very well. Facebook’s never charged for software before, right? It’s about turning companies into communities.

Scale 151

Scale Marketplace as a Service Mobile Sales Hiring 151

Clouded Judgement

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

If you want features in your lakehouse (on top of open source Iceberg) for ingestion, CDC, streaming (file loading, Kafka connect, etc), schema evolution, compaction, optimization, time travel, snapshots, auto-scaling, maintenance (no more writing spark jobs to delete snapshots!), A natural question is “why do we have two tiers?

Data 130

Data Government Scale GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 130

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 1, 2019

But although it’s inspiring to look at the paths other companies have successfully traveled, you also run the risk of ending up at the exact same destination. If you think about Intercom: when you guys started, Intercom got traction not because the aggregate spend on customer service software was growing or shrinking.

Strategy 36

Strategy Payment Methods Payment Services Startup 36

SaaStr

JULY 20, 2021

It’s a brutal, awful slog in the start. I would say, it’s always good to call out just how awful it is to be a founder, to be an entrepreneur, because that is a unique perspective that you bring to the board room that no one else shares. What we do is we’re a service for business travelers. Is that about the…?

Underperforming Technical Team 242

Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring AWS Business Model 242

FastSpring

DECEMBER 21, 2020

My first job in tech was in 1998 as a software developer. I met David Nachman next, then the rest of the executive team; it was obvious they had assembled a really great group of people that care about their team and want to build great software and company. But I do enjoy running an awful lot. I’m going to date myself.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Development Team Review Software Review AWS 78

SaaStr

JULY 1, 2020

Travel is a challenging part of the industry today. On one end of the spectrum, you’ve got folks that are in the work-from-home productivity space, and then on the other end of the spectrum, you’ve got folks in the travel space, and then, there’s everything in between. We can save companies $100,000 on their AWS bill.

Merchant Services 177

Merchant Services Scale Sales Recruiting Sales 177

All that Saas

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Today, we are going to review Fyle , an online expense management software for modern businesses. Let’s face it, even the top-notch expense management software can fail your employees if they don’t use it, but it also has to be easy and simple to use. Fyle Review (2022) – Expense Management Software. Enterprise.

Software Review 52

Software Review Systems Review Technical Review Merchant Services 52

Baremetrics

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

We’re using Quickbooks Online as the example accounting software, but you should be able to follow along if you use something different, such as Xero. You should also include software that directly assists your support personnel such as Intercom or Help Scout , and software that helps you with your hosting, such as CircleCI.

Startup 81

Startup DevOps as a Service Customer Lifetime Value SaaS 81

Casey Accidental

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Lastly, Pinterest grew adjacencies by making the product work better with interests in different local geos and in different categories e.g. travel vs. fashion. Snap had similar geographic growth, but had some additional format and product adjacencies. Okay, so let’s look at how Pinterest and Snapchat grew their product offering over time.

Payments 113

Payments Scale Payment Solutions Technical Review 113

SaaStr

JUNE 19, 2020

Why is travel changing? Almost no software categories are new. I didn’t say their technology is terrible, the audio is awful. I mean, this is a 20 something year old piece of software. I meet with a lot of founders that poke at Salesforce as a piece of software. Why is the content marketing industry changing?

Software Review 167

Software Review Technical Review Sales Hiring Investment 167

Frontegg

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Third party integrations —the API economy and microservices architectures have led to an explosion in the number of software systems connecting to each other, within and in between organizations. Password-based authentication is impractical for users, can be easily compromised by attackers, and is quickly becoming a thing of the past.

Strategy 98

Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Application Development Mobile 98

SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

Justin Bedecarre: Whereas if you’re a software company, you can wait until, you don’t have to compel people to come in sooner than they feel safe. So, you have to make sure that from a software standpoint, that you’re able to help with those angles. Is AWS in the lead? Jen Nguyen: Yeah.

Sales Recruiting 147

Sales Recruiting Cloud CTO Hire Scale 147

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

A people person with extensive C-Level experience in enterprise software, business development and operations. I exited to pursue other interests after Upland Software acquired the company in 2019. You will have the opportunity to travel to amazing places, that you probably, otherwise, would have never chosen to go to.

Scale 130

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 130

SaaStr

MAY 22, 2020

Bevy is the leading provider of in-person community software, powering community programs and incredible companies like Slack, Twitch, Salesforce, Atlassian, and more. I do have to ask, though, when we do Q and As, as well, the awful moment is when you say, “Does anyone have a question from the audience?”

Technical Advisors 207

Technical Advisors Engagement Startup Benchmarks 207

SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

SaaS – Software-as-a-Service – is an umbrella term referring to a range of technologies and tools that facilitate the processing, storage, and management of big data using remote servers. Amazon Web Services (AWS). Amazon, the global marketplace, also offers several other services, one of which is Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Marketplace as a Service 10

Marketplace as a Service SaaS AWS Cybersecurity 10

Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

Obviously, you played a really pivotal role in turning the Wall Street trading business into a software business especially during your time at Goldman Sachs and also now at Sixth Street. We had to write a lot of software that weekend, but the point is we had everything in one virtual place, and it was a matter of bringing it together.

Artificial Intelligence 58

Artificial Intelligence AI Banking AWS 58

OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2019

That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). Remember when the ability to integrate with another software product was a premium feature, reserved for enterprise-grade packages? Now it’s table stakes.

Scale 70

Scale Startup Technical Review Software Review 70

OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2019

That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). Remember when the ability to integrate with another software product was a premium feature, reserved for enterprise-grade packages? Now it’s table stakes.

Scale 51

Scale Startup Technical Review Software Review 51

OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2019

That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). Remember when the ability to integrate with another software product was a premium feature, reserved for enterprise-grade packages? Now it’s table stakes.

Scale 40

Scale Startup Technical Review Software Review 40