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What’s New at Automattic and WordPress with Co-founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg

SaaStr

SaaStr was created in 2012 to democratize learning and how to build B2B companies, and WordPress was started in 2003 to democratize publishing. These products are part of a shared philosophy around user control of privacy, data, and open-source. People can set their own rules around data. It’s not meant to be a consumer brand.

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Top Themes in Data Transcript

Tom Tunguz

Slide 1 Clearing: While data world consolidates, capabilities have exploded with AI. Content: AI is rewriting every rule about what’s possible with data Those two forces in tension will make for an exciting 2025 Slide 2 Clearing: My name is Tomasz Tunguz, founder and general partner at Theory.

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How Healthy is the SaaS IPO Market?

Tom Tunguz

Salesforce’s initial public offering in 2003 demarcated the beginning of a new era, the era of Software as a Service. According to the data, 2016 has the potential to be the worst SaaS IPO year in six. In 2003, Salesforce kicked things off. The shift has been revolutionary both in software delivery as well as sales.

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Reading list: Platforms, ecosystems, and partnerships

Intercom, Inc.

“It’s not just about sending data in and out of your product but providing an infrastructure for others to build and grow their business by accessing your underlying data” Key takeaway: “What we often miss is that platforms are extensible by nature. And that creates a discontinuous leverage effect within the ecosystem.

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The 18 Awesome Women of SaaS in Asia

SaaStock

Bai Xue believed in the internet – and in 2003 she did the unthinkable: she quit a secure and well-paid job at Panasonic to join the startup movement. It is full-service agile software development, UI/UX and data science consulting firm with offices in Hong Kong, Singapore, and San Francisco. Janet Yuen.

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The Decreasing Follow On Financing Success of Startups

Tom Tunguz

The rate at which startups are raising follow-on rounds is decreasing, and has decreased steadily from 2003 through 2013. Between 2003 and 2006, post-Series A startups raised series Bs about 57% of the time. The chart above shows the data for follow on rates from series A to series B.

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

SaaStr

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. Tom Bogan is the EVP of Workday’s Planning Business Unit but has a long history in both tech and finance. He was the CFO of SQA and Orange Nassau. From 2004-2009 he was a partner at Greylock.