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5 Interesting Learnings from Okta at $2.5 Billion in ARR

SaaStr

So Okta is one of our favorite SaaS and Cloud leaders. Founder CEO Todd McKinnon was VP of Engineering at Salesforce and left to start Okta in the depths of the last downturn. Much, Much, Much More Efficient Than 12-24 Months Ago The story of almost every Cloud leader. Their multi-million dollar contracts are 30%. #5.

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10 Years In Tech

Outseta

Perhaps best of all, the advent of cloud computing has made the barrier to entry in this field lower than ever before. I can assure you that most people in the tech industry spend countless hours thinking about how to make this happen, investing only a fractional percentage of time thinking about their impact.

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Founder’s Guide to Scaling Applications: When to Build, When to Buy and What Breaks by Algolia Co-founder (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

We decided to use bare-metal infrastructure and not use cloud infrastructure, VMs, which was kind of completely crazy at this moment. None of that was available on cloud infrastructure at this time. You can do that on cloud provider with availability zone. The engineering team was super, super small at this moment.

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