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How AI Infrastructure Will Power the Future with Oracle and Bain Capital Ventures

SaaStr

Additionally, if you look at the mobile shift, the iPhone was released in 2007 but we didn’t get our first mobile apps like Uber and Snapchat until 2009 and 2010. It wasn’t until years later that Workday and Salesforce and a whole generation of SaaS companies came along to build on top of that infrastructure.

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The decade software ate the world

Intercom, Inc.

Rise of mobile. Inspired by Andreessen’s maxim, in 2014 Benedict Evans coined the phrase “ Mobile is eating the world ,” which in retrospect feels like it downplayed just how much our daily lives have become consumed by our smartphones. . Consider WhatsApp, founded in 2009 and now hosting more than 65 billion messages every day.

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A Look Back: Slack at $30,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

David : One of the big changes obviously is mobile. If I had it to do all over again, I would have made mobile the primary way that the product worked. The specific way mobile translates into faster growth is that you can slurp the address book. We could have been way more viral had we done mobile from the beginning.

Scale 363
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The 10x Feature is Real. At Least, for a While. What’s Yours?

SaaStr

We had basic mobile, Mac and Windows, whatever you wanted. As the web began to grow, just having Mobile Sign and Safari compatibility alone could win deals. “Do you want 80% of your customers to be able e-sign your contacts? 2009: Fully localized platform. ” Today, table stakes.

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The 10x Feature is Real. At Least, for a While. What’s Yours?

SaaStr

We had basic mobile, Mac and Windows, whatever you wanted. As the web began to grow, just having Mobile Sign and Safari compatibility alone could win deals. “Do you want 80% of your customers to be able e-sign your contacts? 2009: Fully localized platform. ” Today, table stakes.

Scale 220
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Why your organization needs a mobile CRM strategy

Teamgate

It is no longer new that a vast proportion of internet users is fast migrating from the use of desktops to smartphones or mobile devices. What is Mobile CRM? . Mobile CRM can be described as a tool or software developed and designed to work on Mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets, and other internet-enabled devices.

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Top 25 SaaStr Podcast Episodes from 2020

SaaStr

SaaStr 308: RevenueCat CEO Jacob Eiting on Managing Millions in Mobile Subscriptions While Growing 20% a Month. Most of us think a lot about standard B2B SaaS and Cloud subscriptions, but we are still new to the issues, challenges, and opportunities in mobile subscriptions. We’re obviously in a very unique situation today.

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