2014 AWS Leadership 
SaaStr
DECEMBER 14, 2021
The reality was that they were heavily relying on the enterprise deals closed by the leadership team. As Ohta says, “Around 2014 in Q4, we were about to cross a $2.5 Even after that exciting third year of growth, leadership at Treasure Data began noticing the lack of product-market fit. million and $1.2
SaaStr
AUGUST 8, 2023
In 2014, storage had historically been Dropbox’s most significant cost driver, with hundreds of millions of dollars spent on AWS. Miao’s experience at Dropbox helps illustrate how the financial team’s input can help a company reach a more successful growth path. So, Miao and the team got to work.
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SaaStr
AUGUST 20, 2019
Since Sameer joined SendGrid at CEO in 2014, the company has quadrupled its revenue, more than doubled its employees, experienced a successful initial public offering and was recently acquired by Twilio in a transaction valued at approximately $2 billion. And that was an important shift, I think, for our leadership team.
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?”
SaaStr
SEPTEMBER 13, 2020
If you go back to before 2014, what you see is the power of the cloud. We’ve all seen AWS and what they’ve done with their platform. Then they found somewhere in like year 2014 and ’15 that they could layer in something like payments as an additional way to monetize their customer base. It is staggering.
SaaStr
JUNE 25, 2019
Now, I have some background with luck because in between some long stints with other companies, seven years at Eventbrite and 15 years at Ticketmaster before, I spent five years of my life playing poker for a living and learned an awful lot about luck and positive outcomes as well. The second decision was the next year, 2014.
OpenView Labs
MAY 20, 2019
That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). HubSpot, for example, launched a 100% free CRM product in 2014. It takes sustained resources, focus and executive leadership in order to master it.
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