SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2023

As one of the most successful, slightly under the radar, pre-IPO “trueicorns” (not fake-icorns), the CEO of Navan , Ariel Cohen, disrupts an old space of expense and travel management and remakes things. It was a Frankenstein for transient travelers. Enterprise doesn’t care too much because they’re huge. Should you push more on GTM?

Payment Solutions 282

Payment Solutions Payments Travel Scale 282

SaaStr

OCTOBER 3, 2024

It’s tougher times for many, job hunting is tougher, and in general meeting the best of the best in SaaS and Cloud IRL is more valuable than ever. Admittedly, many might not still be in the SF Bay Area, making travel tough. So we decided to do some folks a solid this year for SaaStr Annual. But if there’s a will, there’s a way.

Sales Hiring 280

Sales Hiring Travel Sales SaaS 280

SaaStr

AUGUST 1, 2020

This has been an incredible roller-coaster for us in SaaS and Cloud since March 15, for some even more than others, but an incredible amount of change for all of us. Some of you are in the “Covid Decimated” category (travel, IRL events, etc) and things in many ways are as tough and rough as March. This was hard on all us.

Sales Hiring 363

Sales Hiring Venture Capital Cloud Travel 363

SaaStr

MARCH 23, 2023

Services include Public Cloud, Private Cloud, Hybrid Hosting, Colocation, Content Delivery Network, Cyber Security Services, and Dedicated Servers supported by exceptional customer service and technical support. Navan is the all-in-one solution that makes travel easy so you can focus on being there, not getting there.

Payment Features 246

Payment Features SaaS Payments Payments Payment Methods 246

SaaStr

AUGUST 5, 2020

Cloud is on fire. Our holiday hotels and cruise ships and destination travel aren’t coming back soon enough. SaaS and Cloud can’t escape the mass bankruptcies coming. That can be your base plan to start, for both top line (revenue) and burn rate. More on that here : The Power and Honesty in a L4M Model.

Airlines 363

Airlines Government Entertainment Travel 363

Tom Tunguz

APRIL 25, 2023

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) & Microsoft Azure had strong quarters with about 28% annual revenue growth each. cloud services business, of which I assume Azure constitutes 75% of revenues, implies the Azure ML business is roughly on a $900m run rate [1], with customers growing 10x - a phenomenal business.

AI Search 266

AI Search AI Azure GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 266

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

More than 10 million people use Expensify’s free features, which include corporate cards, expense tracking, next-day reimbursement, invoicing, bill pay, and travel booking in one app. Expensify is a payments superapp that helps individuals and businesses around the world simplify the way they manage money.

Payments 273

Payments Payment Services AI Search Payment Solutions 273

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Things were slow for a while during the last downturn, but then the Cloud just picked itself up and … ran. Most tradeshows and events in China are running at their maximum allowed capacity pre-Covid, with the delta being mainly from lack of travel. Let’s take a look over in China.

Underperforming Technical Team 332

Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Travel Cloud 332

SaaStr

AUGUST 21, 2024

May Habib, CEO and Co-Founder @ Writer.ai

CTO 283

CTO Scale Travel AI 283

SaaStr

JULY 12, 2024

They believed talent was global, and the co-founders loved to travel. Cloud was a big unlock for monetization. Stage three was going all-in into the Cloud. Grafana deploys a lot of new features that they develop on their Cloud first before making them open source, the opposite of how you might intuitively do it.

Scale 291

Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting 291

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Less Travel. But likely even Q3’21 would be too early for significant international travel. Our digital events have brought 100,000+ Cloud execs, founders and investors together at scale. Yup, we’ll still be wearing them then. As would 100% of everyone that attends. Will it happen? We don’t know.

Travel 208

Travel Cloud Scaling 208

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The foundational idea that RingCentral was built on was about empowering people to work the way they want with cloud communications technology. Vlad suggests always being on the lookout for people who have traveled the road ahead of you, and strategically align the board with where the company wants to go. Advisory Board.

Startup 259

Startup Business Scale Travel 259

Incredo

JANUARY 29, 2020

It covers many categories including travel, fashion, animals, film and more. Here are a few that you can consider: Unicheck – This is a cloud-based software that’s commonly used by writers, bloggers, lawyers and editors. Whilst it’s unlikely, it’s always good to make sure.

Software Review 328

Software Review Engineering Technical Review Branding 328

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

They had a last-minute speaker switch for their session, they had to swap team members who couldn’t travel last minute, and they had to rally their entire team behind creating collateral and product features in time for the live event. Go to the events they’re going to. . Mark answered, “We’re in SaaS.

Strategy 274

Strategy Travel Branding Interviewing 274

CloudKettle

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Using Salesforce Marketing Cloud To Deliver Relevance Travel is back in the collective consciousness and executives in the tourism industry need to meet travellers where they are right now – their inbox. The post 4 Automated Email Journeys Every Travel Brand Needs appeared first on CloudKettle.

Travel 59

Travel Branding Cloud Marketing 59

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 26, 2020

In addition to our temporary work-from-home policies, we suspended business travel and visitors to our offices beginning on March 5. AWS is the leading cloud provider in the industry, and we leverage their portfolio of globally redundant services to ensure Intercom runs reliably. Business continuity.

AWS 192

AWS Business Scale Cloud 192

SaaStr

JULY 17, 2020

353: Keith Rabois (Paypal, Linkedin, Square) and SaaStr Founder Jason Lemkin talk about the landscape of SaaS & Cloud fundraising and valuation in 2020. Does it not all bubble up to even the best cloud stocks? Keith Rabois: I think international travel is almost permanently affected. This episode is sponsored by Lightmatter.

Venture Capital 236

Venture Capital Travel PayPal Scale 236

SaaStr

JANUARY 2, 2024

Next, they moved to credits, which are very popular, with AWS and Google Cloud being great examples of companies that are always giving credits out to startups. Those travel so fast from venture teams straight to founders, boards, and other VC funds. Ultimately, it was a little too complex for Zendesk to implement at the time.

Startup 262

Startup Scale Underperforming Technical Team AWS 262

Clouded Judgement

AUGUST 25, 2023

There’s a lot of info to digest, so in the sections below I’ll try and pull out the relevant financial information and benchmark it against current cloud businesses. The purpose of the detailed information is to help investors (both institutional and retail) make informed investment decisions.

Benchmarks 246

Benchmarks Artificial Intelligence Data Software Review 246

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

We created and served up apps via the cloud on a subscription basis. The founder was my age at the time, so we were in our early 20s and he ended up leaving to go travel and left me in charge, so it gave me a lot of leeway to really run the company how I wanted to. Now, we did really cool stuff at this startup.

Scale 294

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales 294

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The Cool Planet Group CEO has had a fascinating career to date, having started and sold three businesses for over three-quarters of a billion dollars before he was forty – including Inspired Gaming and The Cloud. Along the way too, we also set up a business called the Cloud. Norman: Yeah.

Transportation 183

Transportation Business Travel Underperforming Technical Team 183

Tom Tunguz

APRIL 27, 2015

That company is Concur, the travel and expense business. Each era (CD, License, Cloud) is shaded. Concur completed the full transition to cloud by 2005. Concur’s gross margins were highest late in its Cloud era. SaaS history isn’t very long. The license model increased gross margins to better than 60%.

SaaS 113

SaaS Travel Cloud Business Model 113

Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Our ability to do basic things such as protect ourselves from earthquakes and hurricanes, to travel and to extend our lifespans is barely increasing [since the 1960s]. For example, coupling cheap computing with virtualization enabled cloud computing - a potentially $100B industry. And efficiency innovations will attract another.

Innovation 113

Innovation Transportation Entrepreneurship Travel 113

IT World

JUNE 30, 2022

Back in the 2010s, I averaged almost 100,000 miles a year on business travel. I went to endless Linux, open-source, and cloud conferences. So, do I recommend traveling for business again? When COVID-19 hit, I went from flying around the country and to Europe every few weeks to driving to the grocery store every few weeks.

Travel 90

Travel Business Cloud 90

Sales Hacker

APRIL 17, 2019

Travel apps. It’s an online productivity tool for those often finding themselves traveling, in flights, or in online meetings. On this cloud-based platform, DocuSign make it easy to get an eSignature –– today’s standard for getting a digital signature on practically any device, from almost anywhere, at any time.

Travel 111

Travel Mobile Pricing Social Media 111

SaaSX

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

It could be argued that the biggest technological advance the 2010s brought was the rise of cloud computing and cloud-based subscription services. While it’s true that software services have existed since the 1960s , the rise of cloud computing brought the SaaS platform into its own. Vista Equity Partners Management.

Trends 120

Trends Artificial Intelligence SaaS Mobile 120

SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

Matt Garratt: And to dive into that a little bit more, we asked our companies about travel. 31% of the companies that we surveyed said that they’ll see a decrease in sales related to travel by 26% to 50%. And then another 24% said that that will decrease by more than 50%. And this is like coming out of this, this isn’t now.

Sales Hiring 210

Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 210

The Angel VC

MAY 5, 2017

A few years ago I wrote about some of the tools that we’re using to run a VC fund in the Cloud. It won’t solve all of your scheduling issues: If, for example, you need to coordinate a meeting with a bigger group of people or if you need to take into account travel times and traffic, Calendly won’t do the job.

Technical Review 168

Technical Review Travel Systems Review Social Media 168

FastSpring

MARCH 13, 2020

A: We are taking a series of precautionary measures to minimize the risk of exposure by suspending all business travel and mandating all employees to work from home. Our cloud-first approach enables us to work remotely fairly easily with minimal technical adjustments.

Technical Review 125

Technical Review Software Review Travel Systems Review 125

Incredo

DECEMBER 28, 2013

How cool would it be if there was some sort of app that had all your travel plans in ONE place? This top app organizes your travel plans into an itinerary; just send a confirmation email to plans@tripit.com and this “virtual secretary” will take care of the rest. Gone are the step-by-step website, with Ego you can do it all in one go.

Payment Solutions 100

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Mobile Payments Travel 100

SaaStr

JUNE 19, 2020

This is where the cloud meets. And without traveling, it’s much easier to talk to many investors in parallel. So he actually kind of enjoyed the process more than the normal process with a lot of meetings, travels, coffees, dinners. Below, we’ve shared the transcript of the episode.

Development Team Review 185

Development Team Review Software Review Management Sales Hiring 185

Clouded Judgement

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

If you want features in your lakehouse (on top of open source Iceberg) for ingestion, CDC, streaming (file loading, Kafka connect, etc), schema evolution, compaction, optimization, time travel, snapshots, auto-scaling, maintenance (no more writing spark jobs to delete snapshots!), A natural question is “why do we have two tiers?

Data 130

Data Government Scale GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 130

SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

Coupa CEO, Rob Bernshteyn, and SaaStr CEO, Jason Lemkin, will discuss how the Cloud has changed in 2020. The key for us was we were building not one industry Cloud, but four, and then at Vlocity, we later added two more and expanded to six, so the secret of building one vertical SaaS product is going deep.

Payment Solutions 215

Payment Solutions Pricing Payments Payment Services 215

SaaStr

JULY 1, 2020

There’s not that many people that have been the first salesperson in to managing a global footprint at a cloud leader. Travel is a challenging part of the industry today. Kristen Habacht: Yeah. Jason Lemkin: Sam has some parallel different experience. I think we’ll get some great learnings there. Growth in the pipeline.

Merchant Services 259

Merchant Services Scale Sales Recruiting Sales 259

SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2020

How do I … How you get your arms around the fact that cloud stocks on the left are at an all time high and we almost, and California is one of the worst economies in the Western world? When you look at Main Street versus the cloud index, what are you excited about today? How do I … How are you thinking about this?

Part-Time VPE 194

Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Payment Methods SaaS Payments 194

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

I wanted to have another fun, informal conversation with, one of, I think, the most insightful and smartest cloud investors, Sunil Dhaliwal. Interesting for a couple reasons, but Sunil’s been investing in cloud internet since before almost anybody. GP and founder of Amplify Partners. crosstalk 00:27:38] engagement.

Sales Recruiting 219

Sales Recruiting Development Team Review Technical Review Sales Hiring 219

How To Buy Saas

MAY 23, 2021

Semrush Vs Similarwebs Semrush SimilarWeb Databox Google Tools: GoogleSearch Console, Google MyBusiness, Google Ads Google Analytics Google docs HubSpot Marketing Hub Majestic Salesforce Marketing Cloud Salesforce Sales Cloud Trello WordPress. SEMrush works better for websites in the health and beauty, travel, and retail areas.

Social Media 124

Social Media Content Marketing Advertising Scale 124