SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

I remember about three years ago, Marc Benioff gave some interview and he said his biggest regret was not continuing to hire sales professionals through 2009, his number one regret. And I remember being at that Dreamforce in 2009, which was awful. Marketing wasn’t involved, whoever else wasn’t involved.”

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Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 240

Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

In this post I’m going to share the most important lessons about growing a SaaS business that I learned at Buildium—collectively, these things had an awful lot to do with the company being valued so highly. My role at Buildium In late 2009 the economy had tanked and I had a newly minted MBA but no real job experience.

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SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payment Methods Payment Services 145

SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Many companies across industries use adobe tools and services, including marketing, printing, publishing, and digital media. Amazon Web Services (AWS). Amazon, the global marketplace, also offers several other services, one of which is Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS offers cloud services to businesses. Founded in: 2009.

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Marketplace as a Service SaaS AWS Cybersecurity 10

SaaStr

JULY 29, 2020

Michelle started the company during an economic downturn in 2009. Now, Cloudflare runs one of the world’s largest networks that helps make the Internet more secure, fast, and reliable, with a market cap of more than $6B. And so we started to work on this in 2009. And I remember like AWS was growing really quickly.

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Sales Hiring Outsourcing Services Scale Sales Recruiting 246