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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Blog Posts, Exit Strategy, GrowthA 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, SalesIs 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, ScaleIs 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, ProductWelcome 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, PodcastsPhil 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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Career Growth & Advice, Exit, Exit Strategy, Leadership, Q&AMuch better the first time than the second. The first time we sold, I had far exceeded any expectations I had as a founder. First, I barely believed I could…
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I was just with a founder who owns 40% of his startup. He just turned down an offer for $500,000,000 to sell his startup to a public company. He is…
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Career Growth & Advice, Exit, Exit Strategy, Leadership, Q&AAt least for me, it felt great for about a day. Big bottles of champagne, recognition “we did it”, etc. IPO’ing truly is one of the most iconic Silicon Valley…
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