SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. But we provide a combination of APIs and software. Payments has been around for thousands of years. Dare I say SaaS. They were self taught developers.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

If you go back to before 2014, what you see is the power of the cloud. What this number means is across all industries, 94% of businesses today use at least one cloud solution. The dark blue bar here is cloud as a percentage of worldwide software spend. But it takes a long time to build.

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SaaStr

MARCH 17, 2020

Today at Talkdesk, we had a lot of our kind of big momentum starting in 2014-2015. If you’re able to identify the customers who had really explicit pain with their prior provider that drove them to choose your solution, these are going to be really great customers to enlist as advocates as well. What am I going to get?

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

And then from 2004 to 2014, she was at Google and managed lots of different things, including the self-driving cars project, global sales and operations, and the business teams for checkout in Google Apps. Well, let’s transition then to leadership. Repetition is so important in leadership. COO, what does it mean?

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Baremetrics

APRIL 7, 2020

In a technology driven world, where it feels like consumers are always looking for the next best service or software to jump ship to, reducing churn can be challenging for a SaaS company like Emphatic. About Emphatic Emphatic is a social media automation software, similar to Hootsuite or Buffer. Want to retain more customers?

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SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

For those of you who did not clap, Stripe is a set of developer APIs that help businesses accept payments online and do all sorts of innovative things in moving money in the cloud. We have over 1,500 apps listed in our app directory, so those are with third party partners. Thank you Ceci. I’m Vicki Lin.

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SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

Aileen Lee: And so, I think for a lot of states and regulatory agencies and businesses that have been pushing back to enable remote work, they’re going to have to change a lot of stuff and that’s going to take … A lot of investment’s going to happen in software. ”, we are going to have more unicorns.

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Mucker Capital

OCTOBER 22, 2018

based auditing software firm AuditBoard, Daniel Kim and Jay Lee would probably be shooting hoops. That idea eventually turned into AuditBoard, which launched in 2014 and this month secured a $40 million funding round led by Battery Ventures. Then there are some industry-specific risks, like PCI (Payment Card Industry) or HIPAA.

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 13, 2020

Ever since its inception in the 1960s, SaaS has evolved from a mere time-sharing system to innovative and efficient applications that can be accessed on multiple computers. Growing at the same pace, a report from BetterCloud had anticipated that 73% of the organizations will have all SaaS apps by 2020. And the result is visible!

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Putting narrative order on the past decade, a 10-year-period that has somehow remained stubbornly nameless, is quite the challenge, but it’s impossible to make sense of the 2010s without understanding the role of software. It is very possible that no other company has done as much to shape our decade as Jeff Bezos’s behemoth. Rise of mobile.

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SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2019

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. But we provide a combination of APIs and software. Payments has been around for thousands of years. We abstracted the way a lot of the complexity of payments.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2022

And that… Look, cloud infrastructure and established categories of enterprise software are close to recession-proof. Everything is exploding in software, everything. And I saw a SaaS app that we barely use that we pay a ton of money on. What about this marketing software? You can go to SaaStr.

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

They were building time and expense software. And so we started building a cloud solution, but it was a long arduous journey. He’s actually part of the reason I decided to partner with the founder of SteelBrick Max Redmond and Max had built a great CPQ app, but not a lot of the world had heard of it except for Lars.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

These are categories of software that have existed for 30 or 40 years for a reason. You can mock Salesforce or Oracle or Workday, but these are endemic issues that will always need heavy software. Then a lot of folks will say, “Well, great, another video app. Jason Lemkin: They’re painkillers.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

I was working on a startup that was an early mobile payment platform. It was basically using Bluetooth and an app on PalmPilots to do wireless payments in restaurants. And there’s a lot of benefit to running a software as a service, in general. So if you’re ERP, boom, Workday.

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SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

More than half of Kenya’s GDP is now transacted through a mobile, through arguably the most successful mobile banking and payment system called M-Pesa. Our first MVP was actually an SMS based app where job seekers would send six SMSes in order to register on our platform. For example, in Kenya. It’s not a big deal.”

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

I’d taken lots of trips and managed a team out there and I decided to basically make the move to the Bay Area in 2014 as a CIO for a company called Qualys. And I think the reason for that is, is that because of the interconnectedness of systems and architecture, there has been a big role of enterprise architecture across the company.

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SaaStr

MAY 9, 2019

If your payment system works, you’re not going to rip it out. Great start-ups have a system to have hard conversations. And so, having some type of system where the founders are going to meet and work through whatever the b t issue is of the day is extremely important. By 2014 it was worth a billion.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 10, 2024

It includes a breakdown of the Sales AI landscape, adoption of GenAI and Sales software across buyer groups. We owned the long tail of search terms around construction lien rights and payments. Because it was 2014, 2015, and he’s having Mark Roberge in the early days of HubSpot before they went public. Why HG Insights?

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