Who's completely shrugging off any so-called "downturn"? Paycom They are at $1.2B ARR, growing 30%, and worth a stunning $20B in today's market Their stock is even up the past…
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So we can only learn so much about Figma.  Even though it’s being acquired for $20 Billion (!) by Adobe — the largest private acquisition in SaaS ever, and maybe…
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So there are so many interesting things everyone selling to SMBs can learn from HubSpot.  We were able to dive into this a bit when co-founders Brian Halligan and Dharmesh…
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So lots of folks talk about GitLab as a leader in software development and devops, but GitLab also has sort of a quieter cousin that also IPO’d: JFrog. JFrog started…
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So when we first started writing about Bill.com at its IPO, it was a sleepy SMB accounting product.  In fact, it took 14 years to get to this sleepy (but…
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So Gitlab is the latest SaaS and Cloud leader to do what seems almost impossible.  To grow even faster as it scales. At $250m in ARR, it was growing a…
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So we’ve followed PagerDuty a lot at SaaStr over the years.  At first, because it was one of the early DevOps tools that both broke out and that lots of…
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So Cloudflare is that quiet Cloud leader that just keeps … killing it.  We last checked in on them at $500m in ARR, growing 50%. Today, they are at just…
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So we took a look at Toast just after it IPO’d.  Times were good then, and Toast was worth $24B. Fast forward to today. and there’s not much to criticize…
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SPACs.  A quirky way to “go public” without all the scrutiny of a traditional IPO. There were a lot of SPACs in the peak of the 2020/2021 Boom … and…
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