SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

Turns out a founding team of six MBAs creating a full suite of products sold solely to SMBs can become a multi-million dollar public company in nine years – and continue growing rapidly ($77.6 million in 2014.). We had a notable funding round in October of 2014. million in 2013 to $115.9 Jason : Everyone’s there.

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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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Cloud Scale AWS Machine Learning 110

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. Everyone knows Shopify for what it is today, but in the earlier days, it really was the best SaaS platform for SMB eCommerce providers. It is staggering. We call that a second act.

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Sales Hiring Scale Payments Cloud 231

SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

So, Aaron and I wrote a book together in 2014 or something. And I remember being at that Dreamforce in 2009, which was awful. ” I’m like, that sounds awful. SMB numbers are harder to get with, but it’s like 60 or 70 for SMBs. So, we’ve got three of them here. Jason : All right. Aaron : 2016.

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Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 239

SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

I’m going to get the numbers wrong, I think Amazon has 10,000 open positions out in AWS. Salesforce was a very rudimentary SMB app for a brief period of time, but it was. There was a moment in time when I didn’t have that much to do 2013, 2014, and I was an angel investor, but really a mentor.

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Scaling 246

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

It took me a long time to admit to myself that I don’t enjoy transactional SMB sales. I started my career as a high school English teacher, and jumped into Chicago tech sales in 2014. What is your best piece of career advice for women in sales? Be honest about what you enjoy doing and don’t settle for anything less.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2019

I joined in late 2014, and the origin story of Plus is one of just following customers. It doesn’t matter even if it’s AWS’s fault or whoever’s fault, it doesn’t matter, you’re mission critical. I want to talk less, but I am a super fan of this whole story. Loren Padelford: Yes.

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Underperforming Technical Team 156