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Veeva CEO Peter Gassner on Becoming an Industry Cloud Leader | LinkedIn

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As part of our SaaS Adventure series, focused on successful SaaS founders, we recently sat down with Peter Gassner, the CEO of Veeva. As many of our SaaS-focused readers likely know, Veeva was founded by Peter and Matt Wallach in 2007 to address the lack of purpose-built solutions in the cloud for the pharmaceutical industry. Nearly nine years later, Veeva has done just that and along the way established itself as one of largest SaaS companies focused on a vertical industry. We spoke to Peter about his personal background and journey as a founder, getting Veeva to a revenue run-rate over $400M and doing so profitably. Neeraj Agrawal and Logan Bartlett: Do you have some initial thoughts on what makes a successful SaaS company that you’d like to share? Peter Gassner: In 2007, I was talking a lot about the fact that industry-specific software would represent the next wave of cloud applications, but I didn’t get a lot of buy-in from my peers at that time. My premise was that if you could

As part of our SaaS Adventure series, focused on successful SaaS founders, we recently sat down with Peter Gassner, the CEO of Veeva. As many of our SaaS-focused readers likely know, Veeva was founded by Peter and Matt Wallach in 2007 to address the lack of purpose-built solutions in the cloud for the pharmaceutical industry. Nearly nine years later, Veeva has done just that and along the way established itself as one of largest SaaS companies focused on a vertical industry. We spoke to Peter about his personal background and journey as a founder, getting Veeva to a revenue run-rate over $400M

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