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Extreme Product Design: Building Things People Actually Use with Stripe CTO David Singleton (Pod 636 + Video)

SaaStr

Many companies believe excellent product design comes from hiring the best engineers and signing up for the latest software instead of building from the users’ perspectives. Stripe’s CTO, David Singleton, shares how they use a system of feedback, iteration, and fast shipping to create products that meet users’ expectations.

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Beyond Frankencloud: living with your once and future SaaS architecture

CloudGeometry

Yet they live on borrowed time. Interest payments accelerate faster than you realize. When you treat your cloud provider as a fractional colo. When you optimize application logic with DBMS stored procedures (thanks, Oracle) or object-relational mapping. See a useful background talk from their CTO Pini Reznik here ).

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SaaStr Crosses 50,000,000 Views on Quora; Our Top Recent Answers

SaaStr

With that, here are the top/most popular recent answers: Do CEOs have personal assistants? What makes a bad CTO? Do all SaaS companies in the USA put late payment fees in their contract? As you can see, views dropped a bit and then rebounded strongly in the past few months. Does this work?

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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. I just think that definition of responsibility will change where they may simply be a sales and marketing person who’s focused on new logos, but immediately is handed to success from that point forward. Nick Mehta: So let’s dive into the future.

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Revolutionizing the Hospitality Industry with Technology Implementation

Valerian Tech

By embracing mobile check-ins, digital concierge services, and personalized recommendations, hotels can create seamless and memorable experiences. This data can be leveraged to provide personalized experiences, targeted marketing campaigns, and tailored offerings.

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The Playbook to Hiring Your First VP of Sales and Not Screwing it Up…….with Cassidy Ventures Founder Brendon Cassidy (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Brendon introduces his playbook to hiring the first VP of Sales from his experiences as VP of Sales at LinkedIn, EchoSign, Talkdesk and more. Learn the dos and don’ts to make the correct hire the first time and not rush into hiring the wrong VP of Sales, which can cost the company months or even years. Roughly 90%.

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My First 16: Welding Yourself to Early Customers with Marqeta’s Jason Gardner

Andreessen Horowitz

So, I co-founded another payments company called PropertyBridge, which allowed you to pay rent electronically. And I wanted to do another payments company, but I didn’t know what I wanted to do. You’re a payment nerd. I’m more of an infrastructure person. We were like 18 people at the time.