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Dear SaaStr: What’s It Like to Have Your Company Acquired by One of the Tech Giants?

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2018’s Top 50 Acquisitions in SaaS. Most surprisingly, my CTO — the most start-up-ey guy I know — is still there. You may be asked to own new stuff beyond just what your company / app does. Dear SaaStr: What’s It Like to Have Your Company Acquired by One of the Tech Giants? It’s a lot of change. The pressure is off.

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SaaStr is Turning 10! How a Blog Turned into A Global SaaS Community for 250,000+

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This led to our first meet-ups in 2013 and 2014, the first SaaStr Annual in 2015 , the industry’s leading podcast in 2016, the first SaaS founder coworking space in 2017, and SaaStr Pro , the first learning management system for SaaS founders in 2018. 2018 The Fourth SaaStr Annual: Learn and Scale Together. 2020 SaaStr Annual At Home.

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What was the biggest ousting of a CEO that ever occurred?

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CEOs ousted for improper misconduct hit a high in 2018. And the few that don’t generally had a founder that decided to bring someone else in themselves (often a CTO type): Salesforce: Yes. New Relic: Yes. And we believe in the cult of the CEO much more. As it should. Here’s a list of the big ones. Atlassian: Yes. Dropbox: Yes.

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10 Hacks to Have Happier Investors

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Your investors and others will learn a lot more hearing about sales from your VP of Sales, your CTO co-founder … and not you. But there are 1,000+ new firms since 2016 alone. Note: an update of a classic SaaStr post from 2018. All-hands meetings, board meetings, whenever. Yes, you are the CEO. Like growing faster.

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The Cold, Hard Truths About SaaS In 2023: Part 1 AMA with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin

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It’s too much to learn on the fly for most new VPs of Sales. So, as leaders, you have to start from scratch and hire new people who weren’t trained in horrible ways or hire people who have been around long enough to know that sales are hard and deals can take six months to close. But it wasn’t ok in 2018, and it isn’t ok today.

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The 18 Awesome Women of SaaS in Asia

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In 2018, she moved to Hong Kong to head product at Lalamove and now is the Product Manager at Gravity Supply Chain. After five years at Ernst & Young in New York, she served as Vice President at Citigroup in the Big Apple. In 2018, she founded Work In Progress, a hub that connects professionals and fosters a coaching culture.

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More of SaaStr’s Most Respected Leaders Awards List Revealed!

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Every week we’ll be rolling out new winners until we get to the very pinnacle of our list. Dug Song founded Duo Security in 2019 and grew the company as CEO until it’s acquisition in October of 2018. Tom was CEO of Adaptive Insights which was acquired by Workday in June of 2018 for $1.5B.