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How to Retain Employees For 10+ Years with Alf Ruppert

FastSpring

And then there was this big ERP dying, which was shot after the first ecommerce new academy scene was going down for 2000 2001. And even at that, at that time, I had a company trying to establish a ecommerce solution based on the Apple database. And I love that very much.

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Q&A with Maria Pergolino, Anthony Kennada, Aaron Ross and Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Aaron : Well, also, as someone who went through this, especially like the 2000, 2001 times. And I remember being at that Dreamforce in 2009, which was awful. Every retail shop was closed by 2000. ” I’m like, that sounds awful. And every vendor was just staring at each other like the world’s dead.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Tidelift and Cloudflare

SaaStr

Why does Bridget believe the best starting point for customer success is “company culture and value”? How does company culture impact the quality of customer success? I went into product marketing for the commercial arm of Xerox Park, which is a big computer research company here. Who has done this well?

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How to Build Happier Employees – Lessons From HubSpot’s CTO Dharmesh Shah and Chief People Officer Katie Burke

SaaStr

” “I hated Katie at that company meeting, it was awful.” ” That all goes to our entire company on the Wiki, so you can download that file, you can read it yourself, you can look through it, you can actually raise on our company Wiki a disagreement about it. Death under 20, it can be near death.

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Starting Up In A Downturn with Cloudflare COO and Co-Founder Michelle Zatelyn (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And I remember like AWS was growing really quickly. And at the time there was a big debate of, “Will big companies ever really use AWS?” ” Well, fast forward 10 years later, that seems like such a naive thing to say today. Actually people look different in those stages and some things are the same.