Blog Posts, Exit Strategy, Scale
18 years to $100m ARR and unicorn exit You want it to be faster, but sometimes, it just takes longer Stay with it https://t.co/8EAqHBQy6S — Jason ✨BeKind✨ Lemkin ⚫️ (@jasonlk)…
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Blog Posts, Scale
We recently had a chance to catch up with Anjali Sud, CEO of Vimeo. After a 16 year journey, Vimeo recently IPO’d at $330m+ in ARR, growing a stunning 56%!…
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Blog Posts, Scale
Loved the session by @benchestnut at #SaastrAnnual. The thing that struck me the most was his thoughts on MOAT – “Speed of execution and ability to iterate in a crisis…
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Blog Posts, Fundraising, Scale
A small part of SaaStr has been learnings from and tracking some of my investments. Enough time has gone by that we can step back and learn from some of…
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Blog Posts, Scale
I was lucky to catch up recently with one of my very favorite SaaS founders, René Lacerte, CEO Bill.com. Bill.com has become an SMB powerhouse, with 120,000+ customers and a…
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Blog Posts, Customer Success, Scale
I was recently talking with several SaaS companies that crossed certain customer count milestones. 1,000 paying customers. 5,000. 7,000 in one case. And I began to wonder: just exactly how…
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5 Interesting Things, Blog Posts, Scale
Freshworks has filed to go public, one of a next wave of U.S.-Indian SaaS hybrid super success stories. Headquartered in the U.S., but with 3,800 of 4,300 employees in India,…
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Blog Posts, Growth, Leadership, Scale
You need startup folks to succeed at a startup BigCo folks just don't know how to succeed without a brand + tons of resources But Many startup folks have no…
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Blog Posts, Customer Success, Scale
A question so many of us had in the earlier days of SaaS was … will we max out all our bigger customers? We all saw especially larger customers buying…
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5 Interesting Things, Blog Posts, Scale
Blackline has quietly been one of our favorite SaaS companies because they just never gave up. A solo founder and even a solo parent, founder Therese Tucker wrote the initial…
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Blog Posts, Scale
Recently Bessemer Venture Partners did another great deep give on Cloud metrics at the Cloud 100. They’ll update their classic “State of the Cloud” on Sep 27-29 at SaaStr Annual…
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5 Interesting Things, Blog Posts, Scale
Coupa is one of our favorite enterprise SaaS leaders at SaaStr, and one more folks should know about. It dominates the enterprise segment of a huge space — Spend Management…
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Blog Posts, Scale
We all know times are good in SaaS and Cloud — but just how good? Is it all the big public cloud vendors and a handful of outliers? Really impressive,…
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5 Interesting Things, Blog Posts, Scale
So Microsoft announced that LinkedIn, which it bought in 2016, has now crossed a stunning $10 Billion in ARR — and growing 27% year-over-year. That’s pretty incredible. And in the…
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Blog Posts, Scale
The Top SaaS and Cloud companies are now growing 100% at $100m ARR More here: https://t.co/rmGvzl9ikJ pic.twitter.com/ZcdF6BkMVm — Jason ✨BeKind✨ Lemkin ⚫️ (@jasonlk) July 28, 2021 Byron Deeter, general partner…
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