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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Crossbeam and Podium – January 10, 2020

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Prior to Crossbeam, Bob founded Stitched, a powerful ETL service built for developers that was acquired by Talend in 2018. How does Bob think about when is the right time to hire a Head of Partnerships? Where do most startups go wrong both in hiring for partnerships and in the engagements themselves? Harry Stebbings.

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Founder’s Guide to Scaling Applications: When to Build, When to Buy and What Breaks by Algolia Co-founder (Video + Transcript)

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When it comes to seamlessly scaling your applications, a top-notch engineering team will be your foundation. Julian Lemoine, Co-Founder, and CTO of Algolia will share his lessons learned on how to stay focused and innovative as you scale while also avoiding the innovation for innovation’s sake pitfalls. So very, very small team.

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Taking a $4B Company from Consumer to B2B with Pluralsight (Video + Transcript)

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My co founders and I were software developers, so we knew how to write the code, to build the website, to build the learning platform, to build the video distribution model. This won’t be that bad. We were also teachers, we taught in the classroom, so we knew how to teach the first courses. That doesn’t sound too hard.”

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