The SaaS Revolution Show

Lessons from bootstrapping to $25m ARR with David Darmanin, Hotjar

13 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

David Darmanin, founder and CEO of Hotjar, is this week’s guest on The SaaS Revolution Show. At the time of recording, Hotjar has 100+ team members ...

Can software make work feel less like work? with Rahul Vohra, Superhuman

06 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Rahul Vohra, founder and CEO of Superhuman, is this week’s guest on The SaaS Revolution Show. At the time of recording, Superhuman had over 250,000 ...

The Power of Events for Growing SaaS Startups with Jói Sigurdsson, CrankWheel

30 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jói Sigurdsson, founder and CEO of CrankWheel, is this week’s guest on The SaaS Revolution Show. Events have always been an important customer acqu...

The Unicorn Hiring Trajectory with Maddy Cross, Notion Capital

23 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Maddy Cross, Talent Director at Notion Capital, is this week’s guest on The SaaS Revolution Show. She talks about Notion's recent research report: T...

How to retain top talent with Dan Martell

16 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Dan Martell, five-time SaaS founder and founder of SaaS Academy, talks retaining top talent on this week's episode of The SaaS Revolution Show. This e...

Becoming a customer success-focused startup with David Roldan, Google Cloud

09 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week David Roldan, Head of Venture Capital & Startup Business Development - Europe, Google Cloud, is chatting to Alex Theuma on the SaaS Revoluti...

How your core metrics shift as your company grows with Tina Sharkey, co-founder of Brandless

19 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week Tina Sharkey, co-founder of Brandless, is chatting to Alex Theuma on the SaaS Revolution Show, live from Slush 2019. They discussed Brandle...

Why do we quit our jobs with Phil Chambers, CEO of Peakon

12 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week Phil Chambers, CEO and co-founder of Peakon, is chatting to Alex Theuma on the SaaS Revolution Show, live from Slush 2019. They discuss Pea...

Lessons from scaling Europe’s fastest-growing SaaS company with Avi Meir, CEO of Travelperk

05 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week Avi Meir, CEO and co-founder of Travelperk, is chatting to Alex Theuma on the SaaS Revolution Show, live from Slush 2019. They discuss Trav...

The Bumpy Road to Product-Market Fit with Peter Reinhardt, CEO of Segment

28 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week Peter Reinhardt, CEO and Co-founder of Segment, is chatting to Alex Theuma on the SaaS Revolution Show, live at Slush 2019. They discuss th...

Revenue Operations with Jason Reichl, CEO of Go Nimbly

21 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week Jason Reichl, CEO of Go Nimbly, is chatting to Alex Theuma on the SaaS Revolution Show. Their conversation focused on revenue operations: h...

SaaS pricing and building a sales team with G2 co-founder Godard Abel and Accel partner Philippe Botteri [Live from SaaStock19]

14 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week’s episode of the SaaS Revolution Show is a live recording from SaaStock 2019. In this episode Philipe Botteri, partner with Accel, intervi...

Product led growth and scaling Pendo with Co-Founder Eric Boduch [Live from SaaStock19]

07 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week's episode of the SaaS Revolution Show is a live recording from SaaStock 2019. We're talking to Eric Boduch, co-founder and chief evangelist ...

Crafting company culture by Elias Torres, CTO of Drift [Live from SaaStock19]

24 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Elias Torres is focused on building the best engineering organization based in Boston. His team at Drift is building software to help people live, wor...

Reversing Freemium with Michael Litt

18 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Coming to you live from Dublin where we just wrapped the fourth SaaStock flagship conference, this week's episode is a live interview we recorded with...

Nailing Company Culture & Mission: How to Build an Environment Fit for Scale

10 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Remember Enron? A company that went to the highest highs only to have a dizzying fall in 2007. One of the values that Enron had put on the wall was In...

Succeeding with sales from the start, the “2019 guide”

03 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On this week’s episode of the SaaS Revolution Show, we host Steli Efti, CEO and Co-Founder of Close about his new book on early stage selling techni...

How to be a global company from day 1

26 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On this week’s episode of the SaaS Revolution Show, we host Rod Ardant, CEO and Co-Founder of Spendesk, about how to build a global company.An engin...

How B2B SaaS companies can thrive in the feedback economy

19 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On this week’s episode of the SaaS Revolution Show, we talk with one of the SaaStock19 Keynote speakers, Leela Srinivasan, CMO at SurveyMonkey about...

Break all the rulebooks: How ActiveCampaign reached $70M in ARR

12 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On this week’s episode of the SaaS Revolution Show, we speak with Jason VandeBoom, Founder and CEO of ActiveCampaign about all the unusual things he...

Funding primer: How Dan Adika raised $217M in 6 rounds

07 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On this week’s episode of the SaaS Revolution Show, we host Dan Adika, CEO and Co-Founder of WalkMe about how he has raised the whopping $217 millio...

How to walk the tightrope between tactics and strategy

29 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the SaaS Revolution Show, we talk with Sarika Garg, Chief Strategy Officer at Tradeshift about walking the tightrope between tactics and ...

How to organise your company for effectiveness and productivity

22 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On this week’s episode of the SaaS Revolution Show, we talk with Natalie Nagele, Co-founder and CEO of Wildbit about how she and her co-founder and ...

Ask a VC anything with William McQuillan

15 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On this week’s episode of the SaaS Revolution Show, we take you back to the SaaStock18 stage for a special Ask Me Anything session with William McQu...

From 0 to $5M in ARR: How to create a predictable outbound machine

08 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On this week’s episode of the SaaS Revolution Show, we talk with Nazma Qurban, Chief Revenue Officer of Cognism about how she has managed to build a...

Learning how to sell when it is (almost) too late

01 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On this month’s episode of the Struggle, with talk with Joachim Klein, President of ThreeKit. Originally from Germany, Joachim has been living in Sa...

How to scale the engineering team at a SaaS company

25 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week’s guest on the SaaS Revolution Show is John Doran, Director of Engineering at Phorest Salon Software, a cloud-based management solution an...

Sydney Sloan on the art of the marketing metrics that matter

18 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On the latest episode of the SaaS Revolution Show we chat with SalesLoft CMO, Sydney Sloan. She shares lessons from her vast experience in customer-fo...

Why SaaS companies need a diverse leadership to foster innovation

11 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week’s guest on the SaaS Revolution Show is Sophia Eng, VP of Growth Marketing at Trade the Fifth and Founder of Women in Growth, a support gro...

From a convict to 5-time SaaS entrepreneur: the story of Dan Martell

04 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The start of Dan Martell entrepreneurial path has all the markings of a Hollywood film - driving a stolen car, chased by police, with a gun beside him...

It is the best of times for SaaS, what could go wrong? with Rory O'Driscoll

27 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On the latest episode of the SaaS Revolution Show, we host Rory O’Driscoll, Partner of Scale Venture Partners and talk about the things he beli...

Confessions of a serial billion $ category creator

20 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

One of the last sessions at SaaStock18 was a bonus chat that brought a double dose of Canadian accents - April Dunford, the world’s foremost expert ...

How to win with content marketing in 2019 with Alison Murdock

13 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On the latest episode of the SaaS Revolution Show, we speak with Alison Murdock, CMO of SocialChorus, a platform for planning, creating, publishing, a...

How vulnerability made Liam Boogar-Azoulay a better SaaS executive

06 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On this month’s episode of the Struggle, Alex Theuma speaks with Liam Boogar-Azoulay, Head of Marketing at MadKudu, a predictive lead scoring soluti...

How to make the right Hiring decisions to support growth

30 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On this week’s episode of the SaaS Revolution Show, we talk with SaaStock East Coast speaker Eran Ben Shushan. He is Co-Founder and CEO of Bizzabo, ...

How to build company culture right with Diane Adams, Sprinklr

23 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On this week’s episode of the SaaS Revolution Show we speak with Diane Adams, Chief Culture and Talent Officer at Sprinklr and author of the book It...

[The Struggle] A six-year bootstrapped journey through the Plateau of Doom and back

16 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On this month’s episode of The Struggle, we speak with Janna Bastow, Co-Founder and CEO of ProdPad, a SaaS platform for product management that help...

Botify’s growth trajectory on the way to $15M in ARR

09 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On this week's episode of the SaaS Revolution Show, we are bringing you the Growth Stage fireside chat Nathan latka had with Adrien Menard, CEO and ...

5 reasons you have to start talking with customers now

02 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

To mark the launch of our fourth flagship conference, SaaStock19, we are bringing a special radio hour episode collating the wisdom from 5 speakers we...

Zendesk, Zoho, Adobe and PayPal best hiring practices for culture creation

25 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On this week’s episode of the SaaS Revolution Show, fresh off the SaaStock LatAm stage, we bring you one of the favourite panels of the day - best p...

How to conquer and win the Asian market with Hande Cilingir

18 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On this week’s episode, we host with Hande Cilingir, Co-founder and CEO of Insider, a Growth Management category creator, hailing all the way from S...

Building a global business starting from Europe

11 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On this week’s episode, we take you back to the SaaStock18 Scale stage for a panel discussion of what is arguably one of our favorite topics - Europ...

What 15 SaaS companies taught Jakob Marovt about succeeding (or not) in SaaS

04 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On this month’s episode of The Struggle, we host Jakob Marovt, a serial SaaS product builder and Growth consultant. In the last 10, years he has wor...

How to write great onboarding (and other) emails with Aaron Krall

28 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On this week's regular episode of the show, Alex chats with Aaron Krall, Founder of the SaaS Accelerator and the SaaS Growth Hacks Facebook Group. Aar...

[SaaStock LatAm special]: How Superlógica grew 10x by improving pricing plans

27 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Tune in for an extra bonus episode hosting SaaStock LatAm speaker André Baldini, CEO of Superlógica. Superlogica was started back in 2001 as an ERP ...

How to venture into product-led growth and scale with Ashley Murphy

21 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The guest on the latest episode of the SaaS Revolution Show is Ashley Murphy, Director of Growth at OpenView Ventures. She shares insights about the b...

What do growth investors look for?

14 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On the latest episode of the SaaS Revolution Show, we take you back to the SaaStock18 stage for a panel discussion on what growth investors look for. ...

[The Struggle] Lessons on traction from 4-time founder Hannah Chaplin

07 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On this month’s episode, Alex speaks with Hannah Chaplin, Co-Founder, and CEO of Receptive, a SaaS company that helps other SaaS companies make the ...

How to build a killer brand to achieve hyper growth with Dave Gerhardt

28 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode of the show, we host with Dave Gerhardt, VP Marketing at Drift, and talk about the importance of brand in B2B and how to go about crea...

The fundamentals of repeatable SaaS success with John Thompson

21 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Today we bring you the first of our extended podcast episodes, where Alex gets to ask the nitty-gritty details he usually doesn’t have time for. The...

How to be global from day 1 with Max Armbruster

14 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On the latest episode of the SaaS Revolution Show, we host Max Armbruster,  Founder of Talkpush, about being truly global from day 1. It’s a topic ...

Coping with the everyday struggles on the way to $20M+ ARR with Matthew Bellows

07 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On this month’s episode of the Struggle, Alex speaks with Yesware co-founder and chairman of the Board, Matthew Bellows. He interviewed him a year ...

How to move from Marketing qualified leads to Product qualified leads

31 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode of the show, we chat with Kieran Flanagan, VP Marketing at HubSpot, about the essentials of product qualified leads. A software engine...

How HubSpot Broke a Year-Long Traffic Plateau by Upending the Editorial Strategy

29 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On this bonus episode of the show, we bring you the keynote that Meghan Keaney Anderson, VP Marketing at HubSpot, gave at last year’s SaaStock on To...

Setting up for early success as a SaaS startup with Cristina Vila

24 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On this week’s podcast, we talk with Cristina Vila, Founder of Cledara, which was crowned the Best SaaS Startup of 2018 during SaaStock18 in Dublin ...

How to effectively hire and create a culture in a remote organisation

17 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On this week’s podcast, we talk with Liam Martin, Co-founder of Time Doctor and staff.com and organiser of Running Remote, a conference devoted to l...

Why Diversity and Inclusion matter to every SaaS business

10 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In December of last year, we attended the first ever SaaS E[quality] unconference, organised by the Women’s Work Institute and held in Toronto, Cana...

Folding with grace: the story of WeDelight

03 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The guest on this month's episode of The Struggle is Rory Codrington, founder of WeDelight, a customer rewards platform. His entrepreneurial journey b...

[Reply] Stop confusing customers and start positioning your SaaS right with April Dunford

27 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This is a reply of our most popular episode of 2018, hosting April Dunford. Seven startups. All seven of them acquired. 16 launched products. All 16 o...

[Bonus episode] 3 key strategies of hiring for hypergrowth with Olivier Pomel

23 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

On this short bonus episode, we take you back to our podcast stage at SaaStock18 for a chat with Olivier Pomel, CEO of Datadog. Alex and Olivier talk ...

The 6 pillars of effective content marketing with Diego Gomes

20 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week’s guest on the SaaS Revolution Show, hailing all the way from Brazil, is Diego Gomes, CEO of content marketing platform and SaaS-enabled m...

[The Struggle] AgoraPulse: An 18-year, epic struggle to $5m ARR

06 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The guest on the second episode of the Struggle is Emeric Ernoult, CEO and Co-founder of social media platform AgoraPulse. On that subset of the show,...

The role of the CMO: Tech, trends, transitions [Live from SaaStock18]

29 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

On this week’s episode of the SaaS Revolution Show, we take you back to the SaaStock18 stage for a panel on the role of the B2B SaaS CMO. Moderated ...

How to make better decisions while scaling and growing a SaaS company with Ashik Ahmed

22 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In just a couple of weeks, on December 6th, we will be bringing the SaaStock experience all the way to SaaStock Oceania in Sydney. On this week's epis...

How to hire executives by scrapping the Silicon Valley playbook with Alex Fala

15 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The latest guest on the SaaS Revolution Show is Alex Fala, CEO of New Zealand company Vend. One of the speakers at SaaStock Oceania, which takes place...

How to find Go-to-market fit and grow exponentially with Tae Hea Nahm

08 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

On the latest episode of the SaaS Revolution Show, Alex Theuma takes a break from hosting and Irina Dzhambazova takes over, recording live at the Podc...

The Struggle: Bootstrapping from $0 to $50 in MRR in just 4 years

01 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The first guest on our new series, The Struggle, is Clay Smith, CEO and co-founder of Akita. Started five years ago as part of the Launchpad program a...

Introducing The Struggle

31 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

We want to tell you about a new series that we are starting as part of the SaaS Revolution Show that will be dropping in this very feed starting this ...

The role of the CEO in scaling to $250M with Corey Thomas [LIVE]

25 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

During SaaStock18, alongside three tracks and a Startup Pitch stage, we ran a podcast studio. During the two days of the conference, Inside Intercom, ...

How to create diverse and inclusive organisations with Dale Clareburt

19 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

On this week’s episode,  we host one the SaaStock Oceania speakers - Dale Clareburt, CEO and Co-founder of Weirdly to talk about diversity and incl...

The content marketing playbook of Eric Siu

11 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

With SaaStock18 in just a few days and to get you even more excited and pumped, this week’s conversations is especially useful and interesting. Alex...

Scalable demand generation for the enterprise with Jada Balster

04 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Jada Balster, VP Marketing of Workfront is the latest guest on the SaaS revolution Show. She has been in the B2B Marketing space for over 12 years, fo...

From Price Intelligently to ProfitWell: How a SaaS company evolves with Patrick Campbell

27 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Patrick Campbell is something of a pricing guru in the SaaS world. He wasn’t always though. It was a job he had for a short period after he had spen...

How to improve your communication through 1-1s with Jessica Weisz, SoapBox

20 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

On this week’s episode of the SaaS Revolution Show, we talk with Jessica Weisz, COO of SoapBox, a meeting platform that helps managers and companies...

SaaStock18 special episode

18 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

For one time only, Alex Theuma sits in the interviewee seat and tells Irina Dzhambazova who are the speakers he would be most bummed about if they did...

How to turn an untapped market into an IPO with Frederic Kerrest, Okta

13 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

It was early on in his time at Salesforce that Frederic Kerrest knew SaaS was going to be huge. On paper, enterprise on-premise software ruled the wor...

Never Give Up: The Conductor story - a 10 year journey to Exit

06 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

On this week’s episode of The SaaS Revolution Show, we take you back to the SaaStock New York stage. David Skok, Managing Partner, Matrix Partners i...

How to run revenue-driven marketing with Lidia Lüttin

30 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

On this week’s episode of The SaaS Revolution Show, we talk with Lidia Lüttin, VP Marketing at Happeo, a company hailing from Helsinki, which aims ...

The changes Mark Organ made at Influitive to cut churn and burn by 70%

23 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

After he left Eloqua and before starting Influitive, Mark Organ tried really hard not to go back to SaaS. The experience of seeing Eloqua, the company...

How to empower the voice of the customer through reviews with Ryan Bonnici

16 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

On this week’s episode of The SaaS Revolution Show, Ryan Bonnici, CMO at G2Crowd talks about empowering the voice of the customer in marketing acti...

The fundamentals of user onboarding with Jonathan Kim, Appcues

09 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

On this week’s episode of The SaaS Revolution Show, I talk with Jonathan Kim, CEO and Founder of Appcues about the user onboarding that acquires, wi...

How Intercom acquires customers and built a sales machine with Stan Massueras

02 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

On this week’s episode of The SaaS Revolution Show, Stan Massueras, Intercom EMEA Sales Director talks about sales and customer acquisition at Inter...

How to validate and sell your next big idea with Andrus Purde

20 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Andrus Purde, Founder and CEO of Outfunnel has been a marketer for 21 years. Yet he would tell you he is only getting the grips of it now. That, thoug...

SaaS Revolution Show Radio Hour: Customer Success

18 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week of the SaaS Revolution Show, we devote the entire episode to Customer Success. Alex Theuma takes you on a journey that spans from the stages...

How Workplace by Facebook Redefined the B2B Marketing Playbook

12 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Workplace by Facebook was launched in October 2016. Heading it was Julien Codorniou in London, who had been working with Facebook since 2011. On this ...

Scaling fundamentals with Splash, Datadog and Yotpo

05 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

On this week’s episode of The SaaS Revolution Show, we take you to the SaaStock on Tour New York stage for what was one of the most entertaining and...

The tenets of a successful scale to the US with Adrien Menard

28 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In September 2016, Adrien Menard, CEO of Paris-born Botify packed his bags and moved together with his wife and two kids to New York to open Botify's ...

From 0-70,000 customers in 3 years - The Drift playbook for Hypergrowth with David Cancel

21 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

On this week’s episode, as part of The SaaS Revolution Show Episode 100 special, we are taking you to that SaaStock New York stage for the chat Nic ...

Episode 100 special: How to Grow your SaaS

14 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

For the past three years and 99 episodes, we have talked to the founders, operators and investors leading the SaaS Revolution around the world. In tha...

Building Billion $ Businesses: Tips on Scaling to Unicorn Status

06 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

On this week’s episode of The SaaS Revolution Show we take you to the SaaStock Paris stage where Rachel Delacour, VP Startups at Zendesk talks with ...

Building global SaaS companies: when and where to scale

31 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

What does it take to build global SaaS companies? With 13 years of experience in the VC world and having invested in some of the greatest SaaS compani...

Finding product-market fit in deep tech with Sofie Quidenus-Wahlforss, omni:us

24 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Sofie Quidenus-Wahlforss, CEO and Co-founder of omni:us, learned very early on she was destined to build companies. She had the knack for it as well a...

Selling SaaS in traditional industries with Jack Beaman, Syft

17 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

When Jack Beaman, CEO and Co-founder at Syft, decided to disrupt the temp worker industry, he thought he would be building a marketplace. He started o...

How to ace your SaaS product demos with Dan Martell

10 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Canadian Dan Martell believes that the three least boring things on the planet are growth, happiness and influence. As such, a road paved with framewo...

What SaaS companies can learn from Spotify with Marta Sjögren

03 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

On the latest episode of the SaaS Revolution Show, we host Marta Sjögren, Partner at Northzone, one of Europe’s oldest VC companies. Having been a...

Stop confusing customers and start positioning your SaaS right with April Dunford

26 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Seven startups. All seven of them acquired. 16 launched products. All 16 of them repositioned. Roles as varied as CEO, CMO and COO. There has never be...

7 years of trying and failing with SaaS: The road to 2,964% growth with Alexis Prenn, Receipt Bank

19 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

According to Alexis Prenn, CEO and co-founder of Receipt Bank, SaaS is a bit like playing a video game — every 9 months or so you move to the ne...

Growing from a line of script to 360,000 users with Simon Grabowski, GetResponse

12 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Simon Grabowski, CEO and Founder of email marketing automation platform GetResponse is the latest guest on the SaaS Revolution Show, hosted by Alex Th...

How to conquer the US market from Europe with Florian Douetteau, Dataiku

05 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

A Math PhD dropout, Florian Douetteau, was only 20 when he first got the startup bug. The practical ways of learning through immersing himself into st...

From Zero to IPO: Lessons in Scaling Mimecast with Peter Bauer and Ari Helgason

29 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Back in 2003, tech wasn’t exactly having its most glorious days. The bitter taste of the dot-com crash was still pungent. Few entrepreneurs would be...