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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Former Moveworks CIO and Lucidchart Co-Founder/CEO — December 13, 2019

SaaStr

290: Yousuf Khan is a serial CIO, start-up and VC advisor. During his time at the company, they raised over $108m from Lightspeed, ICONIQ, Kleiner, Sapphire, and Bain Capital. How does Yousuf advise founders on quality or quantity of logos in the early days? * Does that ever put them off buying? It’s that simple.

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Product-Led Growth (PLG) For Startups

Mucker Capital

Currently she's Executive in Residence with Reforge and advising other companies. If you have a very complicated product–for example you sell AWS or you sell Snowflake–those are infrastructure products. They ignore that someone has to use the product to see the value to then become revenue and/or to sign a contract.

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SaaStr Podcast #385 with Balsa Founder & CEO Paul Rosania

SaaStr

And how would you advise them? And so I think taking a step back and just acknowledging that it’s a difficult time is really important to gain a little bit of perspective. Is there hiring decisions? Paul Rosania: So let’s imagine I went to you as a CTO. Tell me, Paul, what can we do to cope with this?

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