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Podcast: The SaaS Revolution Show
Episode: From Zero to IPO: Lessons in Scaling Mimecast with Peter Bauer and Ari Helgason
Description: 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 blamed for not willing to take a punt by starting a new tech company. Peter Bauer, however, didn’t succumb to that too much. He sensed SaaS would outlive that and become the next big thing.
Peter placed a bet on a cloud-based email management system and Mimecast was born.
From the early days, Mimecast defied rules and expectations. While everyone advised Peter to focus on just one aspect of emai...