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A Look Back: How $13 Billion Ramp Began To Scale with Co-Founder and CTO Karim Atiyah

SaaStr

From Parabus to Ramp: The Power of Asymmetric Bets When Karim Atiyah, CTO and co-founder of Ramp, first arrived in the United States from Lebanon in 2007, he couldn’t have predicted he’d build not one but two successful startups in the fintech space. “It’s like playing poker,” Atiyah explains.

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The Playbook to Scaling High-Performance Teams with Gusto COO Lexi Reese (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Lexi Reese, Gusto COO uses her 20+ years of experience to provide advice on building high performing teams using authenticity, empathy and logic. Lexi explains the importance of team trust, driver and passenger mindsets, and much more. So the time that I was at Google was 2007, so pre the 2008 recession. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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How to Build a Product Customers Love and Drive Nearly $1B in Revenue Along the Way with Klaviyo CEO Andrew Bialecki

SaaStr

They built one platform that does it all, but also made it simple so that these small businesses they wanted to serve, could actually use it to grow revenue without needing a developer that they didn’t have. They were way more interested in this perspective, so they’d set a goal for their team to drive $100k in “Klaviyo” bucks.

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Veeva: The Biggest Vertical SaaS Success Story of All Time (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

If you don’t have tickets, lock in Early Bird pricing today and bring your team! Jason : You came up with the crazy idea to start Veeva in 2007, just before the worst two years that we’ve experienced in the industry, ’08 and ’09. I was a software developer, a product person. Get tickets here. TRANSCRIPT .

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Dropbox, the ultimate Mouse Hunter

The Angel VC

The mighty king of Freemium Like Zendesk, Yammer, and a few other SaaS companies that were all founded around 2007-2008, Dropbox was one of the early champions of the "consumerization of the enterprise" movement. Instead, I think that the right team has to hit the right opportunity at the right time. Dark clouds on the horizon?

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How Yelp drove down churn by building up customer success

Intercom, Inc.

It’s time to start thinking about retention at scale and bring onboard a customer success team. She joined the company in 2007 back when it was just 30 people and has been instrumental in helping the company scale both its team and its market share over the years. Why you need a customer success team.

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Andreessen Horowitz

We pulled from my prior marketplaces experience and dove into their business quickly to develop a point-of-view on the opportunity. a16z has long had an investment theory that we should invest behind strengths of a business model and opportunity, not lack of weakness. It truly has been a team effort. billion to $20.7