SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2023

And we ended the day with an incredible combo of the hottest app at that time (and one of the hottest ever), Slack, who likely was around $30m ARR or so … and hadn’t yet added a sales team! We started development in early 2004. Can you get to $100 million without a sales team, do you think?

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Get to know the fantastic team behind the ecommerce platform! Right now, I am spending most of my time with the Halifax team working on the SalesRight product roadmap and trying to build out all the features and functionality that our customers need. My first job in tech was in 1998 as a software developer.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

What about, as someone who’s gone from your own solo GP fund in 2012 to a team, how does a founder think about a new partner? I actually think they’re getting done with less diligence, not no diligence, but you don’t have the four weeks of in-person meetings, they’re getting done in days.

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SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2019

Finally pre-Salesforce, Dave was CEO @ MarkLogic where he grew the team from 40 to 240 and revenues from $0 to an $80m revenue run rate. Does Dave agree that if the money is on the table founding teams should take it? If that was not enough, Dave currently or has previously sat on the boards of Nuxeo, Alation, Aster Data and Granular.

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