SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

I think every one of us that had lived through 2001 and 2002 or 2000, 2001, and then again, lived through ’08, ’09, we immediately pulled out our playbooks and we’re like, “Here it is, this is the downturn we’ve been waiting for.” Sunil Dhaliwal: What have I seen? Right out of the gate, everybody stopped.

Sales Recruiting 226

Sales Recruiting Development Team Review Technical Review Sales Hiring 226

User Pilot

MARCH 5, 2025

Integrations Zendesk integrates with nearly 2000 apps, all of which can be found in the Zendesk Marketplace. Its hosted in AWS and SOC 2 Type 2 compliant. Features and functionality Zendesk provides live chat and automated messaging features to help teams engage with customers easily.

Software Review 52

Software Review Engagement Software Scale 52

BetterCloud

MARCH 31, 2020

Does using it remind me of Windows XP/2000? (No If it’s hosted on AWS and some AWS AZs go down, do they have continuity built in? Does the application have self-service support? Do they have public support pages and documentation? Do they have a chat option within the app if someone wants immediate help? Administration.

SaaS 59

SaaS AWS Software Review Systems Review 59

Outseta

MAY 8, 2020

There’s an awful lot of nuance here and the devil is in the details. Likewise, a company that’s generating 2000 leads per month might be much better off focusing their sales team’s efforts on just 200 of the very best leads—but your VP of Marketing’s performance is being assessed against a lead quota.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

Aaron : Well, also, as someone who went through this, especially like the 2000, 2001 times. And I remember being at that Dreamforce in 2009, which was awful. Every retail shop was closed by 2000. ” I’m like, that sounds awful. And every vendor was just staring at each other like the world’s dead.

Sales Hiring 247

Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 247

SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

I’m going to get the numbers wrong, I think Amazon has 10,000 open positions out in AWS. We give away thousands… It’s not just tickets, but we do give away 2000 tickets. Jason Lemkin: We have budgeted in, we would like 2000 great, less represented founders at Annual and 1000 at Europa.

Sales Hiring 246

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 3, 2019

And those of us and those of you who are involved in these companies, even the successful ones look an awful lot more like this. In 2000 when the early marketing automation companies tried to exist there wasn’t the need, but by ’06 marketers were using digital advertising, email marketing, Google Ad Words.

SaaS 187

SaaS Sales Hiring Scale Innovation 187

Teamgate

OCTOBER 19, 2019

Let’s say you have 2000 Facebook fans, 2000 followers on Twitter, and 2000 email subscribers. But one thing that makes email marketing so sexy is that it’s much easier to build a mailing list of 2000 people than to get 2000 new followers on Twitter or Facebook. Is it the same thing? Absolutely not.

Scale 68

Scale Social Media Underperforming Technical Team Content Marketing 68

SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

Then, I started a company, which I sold in early 2000. And I remember AWS was growing really quickly. And at the time there was a big debate of, will big companies ever really use AWS? And who you need to be your first 20 teammates, who you need to be 20 to 100, who you need to go from 300 to 2000.

Sales Hiring 264

Sales Hiring Scale Technical Review Outsourcing Services 264

SaaStr

APRIL 24, 2020

That market grew four, five fold in five years from ’95 to 2000 because you got people out of the intellectualizing of what technology could do to them or for them into the sheer business environment need to compete or to survive. John Mellor: And that’s where we are now. Our CEO, of course, was there.

Scale 239

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FastSpring

MARCH 10, 2023

And then there was this big ERP dying, which was shot after the first ecommerce new academy scene was going down for 2000 2001. So it was very exotic, that you’re making business on Mac machines, not only using them for a creative world, even using them for real business properties. And I love that very much.

Consulting 78

Consulting Underperforming Technical Team Interviewing Software 78

SaaStr

JULY 29, 2020

And I remember like AWS was growing really quickly. And at the time there was a big debate of, “Will big companies ever really use AWS?” ” Well, fast forward 10 years later, that seems like such a naive thing to say today. Actually people look different in those stages and some things are the same.

Sales Hiring 256

Sales Hiring Outsourcing Services Scale Sales Recruiting 256

SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2024

” “I hated Katie at that company meeting, it was awful.” At 2000, it’s a fact of life, right? I don’t know if a 2000 person public company you can take that position, but what have you learned when you hear these types, especially in 2018, when you hear these comments?

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