Rory O’Driscoll

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Enterprise software investor Rory O’Driscoll led Scale Venture Partners’ investments in Box, DocuSign, ExactTarget, and Omniture, and currently invests in AI-powered business applications and automation technologies.

Rory O’Driscoll

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The SaaS gold rush will become the ‘Hunger Games’

SaaS has been the motherlode of enterprise software investing for two decades now. Venture investors, entrepreneurs, and Wall Street have all learned to pile on, leading to a shared consensus that cloud investing is “a sure thing.”

3:01 pm PDT • October 24, 2019
The SaaS gold rush will become the ‘Hunger Games’

The metrics you use to measure your company’s performance should be clear, comparable and few in number.

Measuring and benchmarking the four vital signs of SaaS

“How fast do I need to be growing to be interesting to a venture investor?” This is a question we get asked all the time by CEOs, and we realize…

Understanding the Mendoza Line for SaaS growth

What’s going on in technology investing right now? Is this another 2001, when tech imploded? Another 2008, when the wider world crashed but tech powered through? Or is it like…

Tech Valuations In 2016: The End Of The Line For Sloppy Growth