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.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

I just thought that if there was anybody left at the end of day two that had anything they wanted to talk about, scaling SaaS, fundraising, hiring, anything, and I could be helpful, we could do a little extra Q&A. I’m going to get the numbers wrong, I think Amazon has 10,000 open positions out in AWS. It works out.

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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. So on a scale of one to 10, what type of feedback do you want? ” I’m like, that sounds awful.

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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.

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SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

Then, I started a company, which I sold in early 2000. So a huge scale. Ben Dahl: In terms of when you were ideating on CloudFlare, how did you get to a conviction on the scale of what you were solving and the size of the market? And I remember AWS was growing really quickly. Michelle Zatlyn: That’s exactly right.

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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.

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SaaStr

APRIL 24, 2020

327: John Mellor is Chief Strategy Officer @ Domo, the company that allows you to leverage BI at scale to empower your team with data. John Mellor is the Chief Strategy Officer at Domo, the company that allows you to leverage business intelligence at scale to empower your team with data. John Mellor: And that’s where we are now.

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2020

So huge scale, we stop about 15 billion cyberattacks daily on behalf of those 26 million internet properties. Ben : In terms of when you were ideating on Cloudflare, how did you get to a conviction on the scale of what you were solving and the size of the market? And I remember like AWS was growing really quickly.

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2024

” “I hated Katie at that company meeting, it was awful.” We add human touches to as many things as possible, and then we innovate and listen to our employees, at scale, and the results, I think, speak for themselves. At 2000, it’s a fact of life, right? ” “Our benefits are terrible.”

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