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“The Dumbest Idea I’ve Ever Heard” — How Own Became a $2B Salesforce Acquisition
A SaaStr AI deep dive with Sam Gutmann, CEO of Own, on building a billion-dollar backup company by saying “no” to almost everything. He joined Harpinder Singh (Partner, Innovation Endeavors) to share the whole story — and his top mistakes.
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Top 5 Takeaways
1. The CEO who dismissed “Backup for Salesforce” as “the dumbest idea I’ve ever heard” went on to build the category leader.
Sam literally stopped a board meeting to call out how stupid he thought the idea was. Six years later, he was running the company that…
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