I tried to find how the ranking is calculated, tried signing up for the sources they used, which in turn led to email like below.<p>This is just PR-spam several levels deep.<p>> Reply back to this email, and copy 2 of your friends who are SaaS CEO's, investors or just studying SaaS. I'll reply back and give you and your friends a full .CSV download of these rankings.
I guess it shouldn't be surprising that a list of SaaS companies are mostly in the surveillance economy, but it is a little depressing that only a few aren't in the business of collecting consumer data.
It's quite sad that most of them are traffic/ad optimization/analysis companies. Clicking on the link I was hoping for a nifty list of tools that benefit various (web-connected) industries.
here's the top 15 from the list if you just want to know the company names. I'm not going to post all 50.
Sales and analysis/analytics are pretty dominant keywords it looks like.<p>1. ClickFunnels
2. Lucky Orange
3. CloudCherry
4. Vainu
5. Instapage
6. Proposify
7. Piwik PRO
8. Backblaze
9. Chargify
10. SaleСycle
11. ChurnZero
12. GetResponse
13. Logz.io
14. Talkable
15. Front
I took two passes, and only spotted 2 black women on the teams. Which is unsettling because:<p>1. These are the people building the tools that'll be a part of _everyone's_ lives.<p>2. If these companies continue to be successful, these are the people who'll have the capital to continue to shape the future<p>3. They're often already at the point where it's really awkward (and uncomfortable) for a person of colour to join and be the <i>first and only</i> one there.