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A Look Back: Slack at $30,000,000 in ARR

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Stewart, totally disabuse me if I get it wrong, but notwithstanding all the blue chip logos you have, you’ve got a very core software development, project management core. I don’t think that Yammer had that same software developer core that could get accelerated. Stewart : You’re right.

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“5 Dos and Dont’s Lessons From My Bootstrapping Days” Wrike Founder and CEO Andrew Filev (Video + Transcript)

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First of all, when you just started your company, that product market feed is literally critical. Think of it as they’re of like this second derivative of your growth trajectory are. So it’s extreme and those that, that, those things are set in the early days through the product market feeds.

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SaaStr Podcast #402 with HackerOne CEO Mårten Mickos: “Customers Want Value + Simplicity: The Must Haves to Deliver”

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The downside is that you have a lot of complexity in how the product is composed, consists of many things that cost different things. Some is software developed by you, some is data that you may buy, some comes through APIs, third party solutions, people work and so on. Marten Mickos: Okay, we’ll take next question.