5 Interesting Things, Blog Posts, Scale
So GitLab is one of those ones that sort of … always was doing well. It was exciting at YC 2015 Demo Day. It was exciting as it scaled to…
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5 Interesting Things, Blog Posts
Toast valued at $32.5 billion at opening price Was $8 billion in secondary sale in November Was $5 billion right before the pandemic Last April, the company slashed half its…
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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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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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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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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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5 Interesting Things, Blog Posts, Scale
Avalara is a leading public SaaS company we probably should all know more about. Avalara manages a big problem — tax and related compliance automation. Its roots are in SMEs…
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5 Interesting Things, Blog Posts, Scale
Zoom buying Five9 for $15B to accelerate into enterprise contact center is smart One interesting thing: it was founded in 2001. It's 20 years old. Not everyone always buys the…
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5 Interesting Things, Blog Posts, Scale
So one of the quieter SaaS success stories is Sprout Social, a leader in social media management. Sprout Social IPO’d somewhat quietly at the end of 2019 at about an…
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5 Interesting Things, Blog Posts, Scale
The IPOs sure are a-flyin’ these days in SaaS and Cloud. One of the latest was WalkMe, a tool so many leaders use to help make navigating websites easier and…
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5 Interesting Things, Blog Posts, Scale
Veeva Systems is a quieter SaaS enterprise giant that if you sell bigger deals, and/or do vertical SaaS, it’s worth learning more about. CEO Peter Gassner is truly of the…
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5 Interesting Things, Blog Posts, Scale
Salesforce Growth: 2022 $26B (guidance)2021 $21.25B2020 $17.1B 2019 $13.2B2018 $10.5B2017 $8.4B2016 $6.7B2015 $5.4B2014 $4.1B Thank you Ohana! ❤️From 1st Earnings Call Inside. (We’re all vaccinated!) pic.twitter.com/DQAwBNHm2A — Marc Benioff (@Benioff)…
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5 Interesting Things, Blog Posts, Scale
Vimeo is certainly a fascinating web service, once we’ve used for years at SaaStr and even Adobe Sign / EchoSign before that, and we’re excited to have CEO Anjali Sud…
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5 Interesting Things, Blog Posts, Scale
So Monday.com has filed to IPO with some pretty incredible numbers, especially considering just how competitive the space is. At $240m in ARR, they are growing a stunning 85% year-over-year! …
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5 Interesting Things, Blog Posts, Scale
Elastic $ESTC Q4FY21: – Revenue: $177.6M. +44% YoY– SaaS rev: $51.3M, +77% YoY– Net dollar retention: slightly below 130%– 60 net new customers w/ 100k+ ACV– Billings: $240.9M, +38% YoY…
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