5 Interesting Things

Thank you @jasonlk for giving me the @saastr stage +4 yrs ago to share both my story & build @pagerduty's brand … the Sunny Delight, solution to problem fit talk….
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Olo is a relatively quiet recent IPO of an interesting company that competes with Toast and others in restaurant SaaS platform business that took a while to take off ……
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UiPath is one of the most amazing not-really-an-overnight success stories in Cloud, SaaS, and software.  It was founded way back in 2005 as an outsourcing company, then developed Windows software…
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BigCommerce is an interesting eCommerce case study on many levels.  Shopify is #1 in so many market segments, but for “bigger” SMBs BigCommerce (and perhaps less-custom enterprise deployments) is arguably…
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We’ve done a lot of fun sessions together with Smartsheet over the years at SaaStr but haven’t taken a deep dive into its business.  It’s an interesting one, with a…
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MongoDB is one of the most interesting “commercial open source” success stories, taking a disruptive but open source database technology and building into an incredible business approaching $1B in ARR…
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You may not have heard of Procore if you aren’t in construction, but it’s a quiet SaaS leader we can all learn from if we think about it as a…
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Wrike never went public, but instead was acquired by Citrix for $2.2B.  But since Citrix is public, we can still learn a bit about how Wrike looked right at the…
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So the last time we caught up with Zoom on the 5 Interesting Learnings series, it had just IPO’d.  Boy, a lot had changed.  Especially Covid.  It wasn’t that long…
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Happy 22nd Birthday Salesforce & Thank You to our Ohana who have made it all possible! March 8th 1999 we were founded at 1449 Montgomery Street, a 1 bedroom apartment…
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Upwork is one of those products and marketplaces many of us use all the time — including Team SaaStr — but we don’t often see discussing that much as a…
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So we’ve had a lot of fun in our 5 Interesting Learnings profiling the top SaaS and Cloud companies at scale, from Slack to Zoom, from Shopify to Datadog, from…
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Remember when it seemed like websites were just a commodity?  Well, it turns out, people care. They want a slick site that does more, from eCommerce to payments to marketing…
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So is GoDaddy a SaaS company? Probably, or at least, close enough. Its Business Applications segment is now its fastest growing of its 3 product segments, at a $650m+ run-rate…
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So ON24 is one of those SaaS companies you sort of know and have probably used if you’re a marketer … but probably didn’t pay too much attention to otherwise. …
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