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7 Lessons Helping Start Pardot, SalesLoft and Calendly (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

So Pardot, SalesLoft and Calendly, you’re thinking, “How is this random guy from Atlanta 2000 miles away at the starting floor, at the ground floor of three pretty interesting SaaS companies?” Everybody got a $2000 a year budget to go to conferences like this to do continuing education. And it worked great.

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The Top Tough Management Lessons – and Mistakes – from Founding a $3.8 Billion Market Leader (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And then they do 200 million ARR and they have 2000 people. If you put the average person from Google that is an engineer, a core software engineer, you’re going to likely get a really, really talented person. That’s how you know you have a good business.

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10 Years In Tech

Outseta

Best of all, the types of smart people that you run into in tech run the gamut from highly technical software engineers, to massively creative designers and marketers, to analytical data wizzes and finance experts. As a US citizen, it’s very clear to me that many of our best and brightest go into this field.

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Guru’s Rick Nucci on using automation to scale your customer experience

Intercom, Inc.

Rick : Guru was born out of a pain I personally lived at my last startup, Boomi, which I started back in 2000. It is very different than traditional software engineering. Kaitlyn : Rick, welcome to Inside Intercom. Tell us about your career and how you came to found Guru. It is very hard to do. How did we learn it?

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week: May 17, 2019

SaaStr

As for Godard, he founded his first business, BigMachines, in 2000, a business he scaled to $50m in revenue and over 300 people up until it’s acquisition to Oracle 11 years later for $400m. Having been a Founder through the bust of 2000, how did seeing that macro environment impact his operating mentality today?

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