Blog Posts, ScaleThese are crazy times. The economy has contracted at a record rate of -33%. Yet, the Cloud is on fire during Work-and-Do-Everything-Possible-from-Home. Shopify grew 100% at $3 billion in ARR. …
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Blog Posts, Company Culture, Early, Leadership, SaaStr Events, Scale, VideosHear from Michelle Zatlyn, co-founder and COO of Cloudflare. Michelle started the company during an economic downturn in 2009. Now, Cloudflare runs one of the world’s largest networks that helps…
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Blog Posts, ScaleMicrosoft, Google, Apple, and Amazon have made the headlines for a while for crossing $1 trillion in market cap each. That’s crazy growth — almost all fueled by the crazy…
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Blog Posts, Q&A, ScaleQ: What impact will the effects of covid have on the SaaS industry? Many of us in SaaS are really struggling now. Restaurants, events, recruiting, and so many other industries…
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Blog Posts, ScaleOne of the very first SaaStr-isms was that while $0-$1m ARR is Impossible, and getting from $1m-$10m ARR is Unlikely … that getting from $10m to $100m ARR is Inevitable….
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Blog Posts, Q&A, ScaleQ: How many companies in the Fortune 500 raised venture capital? Why are so many people obsessed with venture capital when many successful businesses didn’t raise it? There are many…
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Blog Posts, ScaleOur recent SaaStr Summit: Bridging the Gap was the first time I’ve had a chance to be a participant at a SaaStr event in a long, long time. Usually I personally have…
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Blog Posts, Growth, ScaleA very curious thing has happened during this very sad and stressful time: the Era of the SaaS Decacorn has firmly arrived. .@Wix market cap is now over $10 billion….
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Blog Posts, Leadership, SaaStr Events, Scale, VideosWe all know and could name several successful B2C and B2B companies. What sets apart some of the most successful, high-growth companies we see today—Slack, Dropbox, Atlassian—has been their ability…
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Blog Posts, ScaleWe kicked off our 5 Interesting Learnings series with “newer” SaaS companies for the most part, and learnings as they IPO’d: 5 Interesting Learnings from PagerDuty, as It IPOs 5…
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Blog Posts, Metrics, ScaleBill.com is a bit — OK, maybe a lot — more lower profile than many of the SaaS Unicorns to IPO lately, but it’s one of my personal favorites. Why? …
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Blog Posts, ScaleAlthough most of us aren’t quite approaching $1b in ARR, we can still learn from the leaders. We last checked in on Slack as it was IPO’ing. Now with some…
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Blog Posts, Customer Success, Growth, Marketing, Marketing, Metrics, SaaStr Events, Sales, Sales, Scale, VideosJason Green, Emergence Capital Founder, and General Partner moderates a discussion with Janine Pelosi, Zoom Head of Marketing and Online Business and Tolithia Kornweibel, Gusto Head of Marketing. Want to…
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Blog Posts, ScaleGartner has its latest Cloud report out, and while one can always pick at any report, it’s at least a well-resourced and reasoned source on the size of SaaS and the…
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Blog Posts, Featured Q&A, Q&A, ScaleWe were recently asked: Q: Are there any examples of a unicorn startup that was bootstrapped? Of course the answer is yes. But I didn’t have a sense of how…
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