5 Interesting Things, Blog Posts, Scale
So we first checked in with Momentive (then SurveyMonkey) as they went to IPO, after being founded in 1999 (!). Fast forward to today, they are now crossing $500,000,000 in…
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Blog Posts, Featured Videos, Scale
Sprout Social IPO’d in Dec 2019 at an $800m market cap It IPO’d early, in a crowded space. But they kept on going, and gong, and growing. 2.5 years later,…
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5 Interesting Things, Blog Posts, Scale
So we took a look at RingCentral early in this series at $1B in ARR. RingCentral is a very interesting case study in SaaS of starting very SMB, way in…
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Blog Posts, Q&A, Scale
Dear SaaStr: Do You Think Palantir Will Be a Strong Company In the Near Future? Palantir will be a strong company for at least a decade. Why? It’s Just Math….
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5 Interesting Things, Blog Posts, Scale
So the last time we caught up with Palantir, they had just IPO’d and were at $1B ARR. Fast forward to today, and so much has changed. They’ve now cruised…
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Blog Posts, Fundraising, Scale
So despite what you might see on Twitter, venture capital isn’t in a tailspin. Good deals are still getting done every day. It takes a little longer now, and valuations…
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Blog Posts, Fundraising, Scale
So the public markets are in tumult. Many SaaS and Cloud leaders are down more than 50% from their all-time highs. But Covid did create a lot of artificial demand…
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Blog Posts, Growth, Product, Scale
Roughly — very roughly — you want to be multiproduct in SaaS by the time you have 10,000 customers For enterprise, this could be $300m-500m in ARR For multi-market, this…
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Blog Posts, Growth, Metrics, Product, SaaStr Events, Scale, Videos
In the run up to SaaStr Europa 2022 in Barcelona on June 7-8, we’re taking a look at some of the top all-time SaaStr Europa sessions. Want to know what to…
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Blog Posts, Scale
So now that we’ve been doing our 5 Interesting Learning series on public SaaS companies for a while, we can pull out a number of trends. Maybe the most jaw-dropping…
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Blog Posts, Fundraising, Scale
So the story of the past few years has been the explosion of SaaS and Cloud unicorns. With upwards of 400 SaaS and Cloud startups now valued at $1B+ now…
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5 Interesting Things, Blog Posts, Scale
Ok times are tough in the public markets for SaaS and Cloud But not for Zscaler It's worth $30B at $1B in ARR, and it's growing an incredible 63%. The…
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5 Interesting Things, Blog Posts, Scale
Confluent is a leader in the Commercial Open Source Market, with the founders of Apache Kafka reimagining it as a managed service. It worked. It’s growing a stunning 71% at…
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Blog Posts, Fundraising, Growth, Scale
FT summarized the latest data from 2 platforms trading private shares. These platforms are used to trade shares in the largest, late-stage startups: Forge Global, which just SPAC’d / went…
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5 Interesting Things, Blog Posts, Scale
So is Square a SaaS company? It’s not even Square anymore as a company … it’s now Block. The majority of its revenue is now from Bitcoin transactions, not “traditional”…
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