Blog Posts, Exit StrategySalesforce Essentials and Mission.org came by SaaStr HQ and did a pretty unique podcast interview with me. We talked a lot about exits. About selling your company, lessons learned, and…
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Early, Exit Strategy, Fundraising, Hiring, International Expansion, Leadership, Podcasts, Sales Ep. 250: Peter Yared is the Founder & CEO @ InCountry, the startup that allows you to operate globally with data residency as a service meaning…
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Blog Posts, Exit Strategy, Leadership, Marketing, Marketing, Product, SaaStr Events, Scale, VideosJoin Rene Yang Stewart, Co-Head and Principal, Vista Equity Partners, and Monica Enand, Founder and CEO, Zapproved, as they discuss growing a company from product market fit to scale. Vista…
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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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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Company Culture, Exit, Exit Strategy, Leadership, SaaStr Events, VideosTom Bogan, CEO of Adaptive Insights, a Workday company, will review the key principles to building a successful SaaS company. From team to vision to metrics to funding and more,…
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Career Growth & Advice, Early, Exit Strategy, Leadership, Other, SaaStr Events, VideosJoin 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, VideosListen 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, PodcastsJeff 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, GrowthWhen 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, PodcastsQualtrics 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, VideosTeddie 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&AWhy 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, ScaleThis 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, ScaleWhat’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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