SaaStr
MARCH 6, 2024
Founder CEO Todd McKinnon was VP of Engineering at Salesforce and left to start Okta in the depths of the last downturn. Salesforce and Marc Benioff at first said the core market, security identity, was too small of a market. Their multi-million dollar contracts are 30%. #5. The story is super inspiring.
Outseta
MAY 8, 2020
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. Hopefully jack up your growth rate enough to be acquired for a massive sum of money.
SaaStr
JUNE 1, 2021
I’m going to skip by my life story, and how I grew up as a small child in India, and how the dusty streets influenced my take on unit economics, and SaaS subscription models. The issue the SMBs had was, “Well, I’m a 20-person consulting company. ” We didn’t do any annual contracts.
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