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Building a Global SaaS Empire: 5 Bets That Paid Off with Freshworks Founder & CEO Girish Mathrubootham

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Big Bet #2: Find Tomorrow’s Great Anglers — Hire Talent With A Learning Mindset In 2010 and 2011, San Francisco was the place for SaaS talent. Freshdesk was launched in 2011 as its first product, and its second product was released in 2014, with faster growth than the first. AI was the biggest threat.

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What’s Really Happening in Venture Capital Today with Redpoint Ventures Managing Director Logan Bartlett

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You can see that dollars invested by these non-traditional investors grew at 31% CAGR from 2011 to 2021, which is kind of astounding. AI Businesses are Demanding a Premium The haves and have-nots are really stark between AI and non-AI businesses. AI businesses are seeing a 3x premium. The tourists, a.k.a.

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From Startup to $500M CARR: How Braze Scaled a Growth and CS Team

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In this AI moment we’re in, there are still many moments in scaling a company where intuition still matters. Building Braze from $2M to $20M ARR It was 2011 in NYC, and Spencer became the second employee at Braze. Computers disrupted all of that and changed the way people worked. This isn’t new.

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The End of Customer Success As We Knew It

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Everyone will try to do what they can with AI and automation, which can only do so much in the enterprise especially. We aren’t the knowledge workers we were from 2011-2019, either. It’s tough to argue for more budget there. What will this lead to? IMHO a slow reboot of the function. It’s already started.

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The State of AI in Sales

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Attention’s conversational intelligence platform not only delivers key insights based on what your customers are saying, but allows you to automate actions using our AI-powered workflows. Over the past decade, sales and marketing has seen an explosion of new technologies, growing by 9,304% since 2011 to over 14,000 MarTech apps.

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38 Bright Asian SaaS Stars

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Their solutions span a wide range of verticals: from E-commerce, HR and Health to collaboration, infrastructure and AI. Founded : 2011. It is a cloud-based platform that offers the services of Asia’s top AI assistant for hotel staff – Gaia. It provides visual search and image recognition solutions based on AI.

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Clouded Judgement 9.27.24 - The Foundation of Foundation Models

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Subscribe now Foundation Models Are to AI what S3 was to the Public Cloud Many people look at 2006 as the birth of the public cloud - the year Amazon launched AWS. Microsoft launched Azure in 2010, and Google launched GCP to the public in 2011 (they launched a preview of Google App Engine in 2008, but made it publicly available in 2011).

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