SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

It was around that time about 12 years ago that Jeff Bezos launched AWS, and some of you may remember that, when he did this, Wall Street analysts were looking at him and saying, “Why would you take what’s already a very unprofitable business and drive it further into the red by investing in this AWS initiative?”

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Buffer Resources

AUGUST 16, 2023

Our hosting costs include service providers like AWS, Cloudflare, MongoDb, Twitter, etc. A look at our pricing history Our ASP also reflects the changes we’ve made to our pricing model over the years. This means our software is hosted on the cloud and used over an internet connection via a web browser or mobile app.

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Frontegg

MAY 27, 2021

Founded : 2011 Known customers: Facebook, IBM, Microsoft, AWS, Unity, Udemy, Shopify Price starts at: $38/month per user. #2 It allows your users to engage more with your platform thanks to customizable product tools, targeted messages and email sequences. Best For: Product Adoption.

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BetterCloud

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Since 2011, BetterCloud has been on a mission to help organizations realize the promise of SaaS by empowering them to more easily manage and secure SaaS applications. Today marks a milestone event in the history of BetterCloud, and more importantly, a monumental step forward for the SaaSOps movement.

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OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 2, 2020

When Francesca joined MongoDB in 2011, the company was going through what she describes as an incredibly hectic and exciting phase of hyper growth. I think there was a month in 2011 or 2012 where we did more events than there were days in the month,” Francesca recalled. Building a developer community from scratch.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

And I remember at Facebook, one of the things that I was really impressed by at the time, and we’re going back now to the 2011 era… “I remember Zuck used to talk about two timelines, roughly six months and 20 years. I was having a great time there, back in 2011. That’s the dream, that’s the vision. Paul: No comments.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

And I remember at Facebook, one of the things that I was really impressed by at the time, and we’re going back now to the 2011 era… “I remember Zuck used to talk about two timelines, roughly six months and 20 years. I was having a great time there, back in 2011. That’s the dream, that’s the vision. Paul: No comments.

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OpenView Labs

MARCH 4, 2021

So in 2011, they introduced usage-based pricing. This was just a taste of all that’s in The Usage-Based Pricing Playbook, a resource we created after studying how Datadog, Twilio, AWS, Snowflake, Stripe, and other top SaaS companies have succeeded with this next evolution in software pricing. Something needed to change.

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Unbounce

JULY 30, 2019

A mystery box takes an awful lot of the pressure off visitors looking for a meaningful gift. Since 2011, in fact, they’ve made the countdown to the sale itself into an event with “Countdown to Black Friday Deals Week.” ” But this period is also punctuated by flash sales and specials meant to keep the customer excited.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2022

Found in 2011 by Sanjoe Jose, Talview is one of the fastest hiring and recruitment software for enterprise employers. Found in 2011 by Byju Raveendran and Divya Gokulnath, BYJU’S is an e-learning program, a brand of the Bangalore-based educational technology ( EdTech ) Think and Learn Private Ltd.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 31, 2019

It was in August 2011 that Marc Andreessen coined the famous phrase “ Software is eating the world ” in a Wall Street Journal op-ed. Apple survived the death of Steve Jobs in October 2011 under the thoughtful stewardship of Tim Cook, and continued to essentially be the iPhone company, while branching into wearables and services.

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SaaStr

APRIL 24, 2020

I think it was 2011 when they did the annual analyst meeting, and they dropped their revenue forecast by $100 million. And so, you’ve got this tendency to evaluate scenarios in your head, and some of those scenarios are pretty awful. And the stock popped. We thought, “What in the world just happened?”

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 16, 2020

In 2011 I got a call from Andrew Chen to come out and work for him at a startup that he was running, which was my first time working in a very, very rigorous environment, focused on user growth and experimentation. .” So tell me Paul, how did you make your way into the world of SaaS and how did you come to found Balsa most recently?

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Clouded Judgement

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

We explored what’s possible with this new infrastructure—basic apps for communication, content, and commerce Complex Infrastructure Phase: The rise of CDNs (Akamai), broadband, cloud computing (AWS), and security solutions to support more demanding applications. But, a lot of that hype translated to real value.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2019

I was the 12th employee of a test prep company that grew to close to 200 employees by the time I left, joined Twitter when they were really starting to build out the sales organization in early 2011, as the first sales manager hired, and after being there for over six years, I really missed the building stage of the company.

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