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Finding the Next Wave of Growth: S-Curves and Product Sequencing

Casey Accidental

The Summit gathered ~40 CPOs and product leaders to chat through topics centered around product development and product-led growth. Most companies when they find product/market fit with their first product only have one acquisition and engagement loop that is successful, and the job of most of the team is to refine and scale those loops.

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Avoid Trapdoor Decisions: 5 Lessons Learned from Scaling Stripe (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Know who is the foundation of your product and build your product for that user (in Stripe’s case, developers). I’m an execution person.

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SaaStr Podcast #217: Stripe COO Claire Hughes Johnson on The Trapdoor Decisions to Avoid When Scaling

SaaStr

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Our team is in Room 111. They were self taught developers. Payments has been around for thousands of years. Dare I say SaaS. Your registration.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Matt Garratt, Trisha Price, David Schmaier, Rob Bernshteyn, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

From strategies in recruitment and team building to sales tactics, these leaders from Salesforce, nCino, and Vlocity, will discuss the top tips for moving beyond horizontal SaaS and building a billion-dollar SaaS company. David, you talked a bit about the team and the founders. David Schmaier: Sure. Matt Garratt: Thank you.

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Lessons From a Second-Time Founder: How Brex Went From 0 – $1B in Under 2 Years (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

” The whole point of building a corporation, is not having personal liability attached to it. So, there’s all these people who are just using debit cards, and just walking around with debit cards with 120 000 in the bank, or just using their personal card for all these things. We know a lot about payments.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Bernadette Nixon, Jay Snyder, Nick Mehta, Loren Padelford, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

Jay Snyder: Got hotspot on my phone, so hopefully we’ll hold still. Nick Mehta: Power of the developer, or the API economy, both of you play very much in both those trends. How do you help your team make that link to value? Nick Mehta: I got to say pretty good internet up there on the Italian Alps, so I’m impressed.

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SaaStr Podcast #398 with Salsify Co-Founder & CMO Rob Gonzalez

SaaStr

Eight years ago, we founded the company, September 2012. I was working on a startup that was an early mobile payment platform. It was basically using Bluetooth and an app on PalmPilots to do wireless payments in restaurants. So we had a deep experience in the e-commerce space and it just, in 2012, it felt right.