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More of SaaStr’s Most Respected Leaders Awards List Revealed!

SaaStr

Dug Song founded Duo Security in 2019 and grew the company as CEO until it’s acquisition in October of 2018. He went on to serve as CEO of Avatar Technologies and Pacific Data before joining Rational Software as President and COO until its acquisition by IBM. The Ann Arbor, Michigan based company was acquired for $2.35B in cash.

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The Case Against Budgets, Forecasts, and Performance Targets

Outseta

It had customer acquisition and revenue targets for existing products, and new lines of business that did not yet exist. The tech companies that I cited in my examples above all practiced agile software development, for example. The plan included budgets for each department, each year. This isn’t an academic exercise for us.”

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Top Themes in Data Transcript

Tom Tunguz

Fewer vendors mean fewer licenses and less overhead The office of the CFO is pressuring data leaders for ROI from billions invested over the last decade We will see enterprises standardizing on particular technologies, particularly the broadest ones, even if the individual point solutions are not the best in that layer Expect more mergers and acquisitions (..)

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