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5 Interesting Learnings from Okta at $2.5 Billion in ARR
So Okta is one of our favorite SaaS and Cloud leaders.
The story is super inspiring. 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. Then, they brought out a competing product :). That mostly failed.
Today, Okta is at ~$2,500,000,000 in ARR! More on that story here:
Okta is also interesting today, in today’s world. because it straddles two segments. On the one hand, it’s a leader in security — a hot space that is…
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