SaaStr

JUNE 3, 2020

And then I spent a year at Salesforce working on Marc Benioff’s extended leadership team, and really had a chance to learn how important trust can be, and also really learn from Salesforce, from Mark, how do you really build a global SaaS leader at scale? And that company grew very quickly. They can make donations for those charities.

Software Review 249

Software Review Scale Technical Review SaaS 249

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 178

SaaS Sales Hiring Scale Innovation 178

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.

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Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 236

SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. Retail was mentioned twice, that’s it, and AWS was mentioned 78 times, so it’s probably not surprising that they’re doing this. I think it’s a really staggering stat.

Cloud 109

Cloud Scale AWS Machine Learning 109

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.

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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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Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 102

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?” And at the end of the day, that’s a leadership decision from founders of saying, “What kind of place do we want this to be for people to work?” As a team together.

Sales Hiring 252

Sales Hiring Outsourcing Services Scale Sales Recruiting 252