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The SaaS Org Chart Live with David Sacks (Podcast #491 and Video)

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billion in 2012. Positions Needed: Developers (Front-End and Back-End), Client Applications, Core Services/Platform, Analytics, and DevOps. David’s first foray into SaaS was in 1999 when he joined a startup that would become PayPal, starting as the product leader and later as the COO. Microsoft acquired Yammer for $1.2

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Kellblog's 10 Predictions for 2020

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I’m not a huge believer in throwing an “O” at every problem that comes along, but the CDO role is steadily becoming mainstream – in 2012, just 12% of F1000 companies reported having a CDO ; in 2018 that’s up to 68%. The ongoing rise of DevOps. All this should make for a $24B DevOps TAM by 2023 per a recent Cowen & Company report.