SaaStr

MARCH 8, 2025

Co-founder and CTO Karim Atiyah came to SaaStr Annual to share how they got this rocketship … off the ground. “Even with a bad hand, if the potential reward is great enough, taking a risk can make mathematical sense.” ” SaaStr Take: Your early hires will define your company’s trajectory.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

My co founders and I were software developers, so we knew how to write the code, to build the website, to build the learning platform, to build the video distribution model. And from about 2007 till 2010 we bootstrapped and built the first version of the Pluralsight you see today. This won’t be that bad.

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SaaStr

JULY 28, 2021

My marketing team wanted me to do the world’s most boring video. I retired from SunGard Treasury Systems as their CTO. In fact, one of our decisions in 2007, we had to decide, are we going to sell SaaS or are we going to be an on?prem Frankly, we got some bad advice from VCs in the early days. prem software company?

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Most growth-stage CEOs I work with know how to tell if they’re efficiently allocating capital in every part of their budget with one glaring exception: research and development (R&D). Imagine if, in 2007, Netflix decided to follow the 70–20–10 rule. And finding inefficiencies in overhead (e.g.,

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