Exit Strategy, Fundraising, Hiring, Podcasts
Ep. 241: Dave Kellogg is a leading technology executive, independent board member, advisor and angel investor. In his most recent role, Dave was the CEO @…
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Career Growth & Advice, Early, Exit Strategy, Leadership, Other, SaaStr Events, Videos
Join Vlad Shmunis, founder, chairman, and CEO of RingCentral as he discusses RingCentral’s journey from a two-person startup to a $7B market cap global enterprise communications company (NYSE:RNG) — the…
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Blog Posts, Exit, Exit Strategy, Featured Videos, SaaStr Events, Videos
Listen to the story of how Craig Walker, Founder & CEO at Dialpad acquired TalkIQ for $50M in 2018. With one startup acquired by Yahoo in 2005, another acquired by…
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Career Growth & Advice, Exit, Exit Strategy, Hiring, Leadership, Podcasts
Jeff Lawson is the Founder & CEO @ Twilio, the company building the future of communications allowing you to engage customers like never before on voice, SMS, WhatsApp or Video….
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Blog Posts, Exit Strategy, Growth
When I started off as a SaaS founder, the #1 SaaS company’s market cap was … $2.6 billion. Yup, Salesforce was worth just a bit more than $2 billion. And…
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Exit, Exit Strategy, Featured Podcasts, Fundraising, Podcasts
Qualtrics Co-Founder and CEO Ryan Smith sits down with SaaStr Founder and CEO Jason Lemkin as Ryan reflects on the survey software maker’s acquisition by SAP this year. The company…
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Blog Posts, Exit Strategy, Growth, International Expansion, Other, Videos
Teddie Wardi’s, Principal at Insight Venture Partners, session at SaaStr Europa talked all things M&A. While most of us assume M&A happens late stage, Teddie gives a list of reasons…
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Blog Posts, Exit Strategy, Q&A
Why do founders leave after their companies are acquired? There are many nuanced answers, but in the short and medium term, it’s incentives. Acquirers use 3 incentives to get founders…
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Blog Posts, Exit Strategy, Scale
This has been a year of incredible M&A, from Qualtrics $8b acquisition by SAP (wow!) to Github’s $7.5b exit to Microsoft (goodness!) to Mulesoft to Salesforce for $6.5b (wow) to…
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Blog Posts, Exit Strategy, Growth, Scale
What’s the value of being a First Mover in SaaS? There’s clearly value there. But exactly how much? How often do first movers just dominate the world? I stumbled onto…
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Blog Posts, Exit Strategy, Growth
A ways back on SaaSr, we wrote that it takes 7-10 years to get anywhere real in SaaS. It’s still true today. It usually takes 1-2 years to get to…
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Blog Posts, Exit Strategy, Growth, Product, Sales
Is it better to create a new market, or enter a large existing one? Or even redefine a smaller one, to make it bigger? All of these can work. But…
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Blog Posts, Exit Strategy, Q&A, Scale
Is Adobe paying $4.75b for Marketo, just 27 months after it was valued at onlu $1.2b … high? Maybe, but 2018 is the Best of Times in SaaS. The price…
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Exit Strategy, Hiring, Podcasts, Product
Welcome to Episode 189! Craig Walker is the Founder & CEO @ Dialpad, the startup that provides a business phone system for the modern workplace. To date, Craig has raised…
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Exit Strategy, Fundraising, Podcasts
Phil Fernandez is a Silicon Valley veteran, with more than 35 years of experience building and leading breakout technology companies. Phil co-founded Marketo in 2006 and led the company as…
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