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Subscription Rockstars: How HubSpot Went From Zero to $500+ Million in Annual Revenue

Chargify

Welcome to the Subscription Rockstars series! In this series, we will take a closer look at wildly successful companies to better understand how they got to where they are today. And, of course, we will pay special attention to how their subscription billing models and pricing strategies contributed to their growth.

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Drata’s CEO Adam Markowitz on creating a culture of cyber security

Intercom, Inc.

Drata recently raised $100 million in venture capital funding, which I believe makes it San Diego’s latest startup unicorn with an evaluation of $1 billion. Adam: Thank you, it feels a bit surreal still, mainly due to just how quickly the company has gone from seed to series, all in under a 12-month span.

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From Slooooow Growth to Hypergrowth with Collibra and Insight Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Felix Van de Maele, Co-Founder and CEO of Collibra, will be joined by Teddie Wardi, Managing Director of Insight Partners, to unpack how he built a unicorn company from idea to conception to record growth. It can order subscription. But again, at the time SaaS wasn’t, subscription wasn’t the norm at all.

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The 18 Outstanding Speakers at SaaStock LatAm 2019

SaaStock

With an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, Rodrigo Baer launched a successful career in consultancy and entrepreneurship, and today is among the top figures in venture capital for early-stage tech companies in Brazil. Talk: Panel on Best Practices of Hiring for Culture Creation.

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7 Lessons Helping Start Pardot, SalesLoft and Calendly (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

We raised $0 of venture capital. We had 13 million of recurring revenue, 100% year over year growth. Let’s be 50/50 co-founders and let’s start a company in the sales space.” The third company I want to talk about is Calendly. From a product point of view, our timing was impeccable.

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SaaStr Podcast #212: Nick Mehta, CEO @ Gainsight Discusses Why Burying Customer Success Under Sales Does Not Work

SaaStr

I eventually ran another Saas company which I ran and then sold. Nick Mehta: That’s a great question, Harry, and I’m old enough to have been through two crashes because in college I started my first company, this consumer internet company in the late 90s which when we graduated we ran, we raised a lot of venture capital.

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Customer Success: The Definitive Guide to Customer-centric Growth 2020

Sixteen Ventures

Whether you have a Software-as-a-Service, subscription or membership business or you sell one-off products or services and simply want to do business with your customer more than once, Customer Success should be your driving purpose. In 2019 I worked with amazing companies, venture capital firms, and startup accelerators around the world.