SaaStr

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Amplitude is a quiet Cloud leader that you might not have heard of — unless you are building software. They were founded in 2011 and IPO’d ten years later in 2021 at $150,000,000 in ARR, growing 57%, and have rocketed to a $7B+ valuation. This is super impressive and what we’re seeing from so many Cloud leaders.

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SaaStock

MARCH 8, 2019

After five years at Ernst & Young in New York, she served as Vice President at Citigroup in the Big Apple. In 2011, she co-founded Grab (previously known as MyTeksi) together with fellow Malaysian and Harvard graduate Anthony Tan. Diny is dedicated to advancing women in tech to become leaders in their fields. Jessie Lam.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

And as nice as verbal assurances and a handshake are, as you grow and try to sign with more established, enterprise-level companies, you’ll find yourself more and more having to provide proofs of compliance before closing the deal: The shift to the cloud, more and more data breaches – it really put a magnifying glass on third-party risk.

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

Our company, we basically unified communications in the cloud. As you said, people take it hard if suddenly you say, “Hey, this is your new EVP. If I wasn’t at the programming background, probably a CTO was a good idea, but for us it was sales, definitely sales and marketing. Craig : Yeah. We also do UberConference.

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SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2019

Prior to founding Twilio, Jeff was the Founder & CTO @ Nine Star Inc and enjoyed a spell at Amazon as a Technical Product Manager. Prior to joining SendGrid, he spent 4 years at Citrix, where he drove the company’s product strategy for cloud infrastructure and server virtualization. One of them, I was the first CTO of Stubhub.

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BetterCloud

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Later this year, Dropbox will offer their customers a new solution called BetterCloud for Dropbox, allowing businesses to enforce custom security policies, scan content for sensitive data, and automate critical processes. Here’s what the new best-of-breed world looks like. But it’s creating a fragmented workplace and new friction.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

In 2011, he had a board-level disagreement with his shareholders … so he bought them out, to radically focus on his customers. Zvi raised a lot of money many years ago — the last time he raised money was 2011. He co-founded and served as CTO of Safend, an endpoint security solution acquired by Wave Systems.

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