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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.” We add human touches to as many things as possible, and then we innovate and listen to our employees, at scale, and the results, I think, speak for themselves. At 2000, it’s a fact of life, right? ” “Our benefits are terrible.”

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How AI could impact the B2B software industry in the next decade

Point Nine Land

How the AI wave could impact the B2B software industry in the next decade Last year I explained in a video, embedded below, that I believed the B2B software industry was entering a new stage: the SaaS wave was now in its deployment phase, and at the same time, the next big innovation wave, driven by AI, was in its installation phase.

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State of the Cloud 2019: Europa Edition with Alex Ferrara, Bessemer Venture Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. Retail was mentioned twice, that’s it, and AWS was mentioned 78 times, so it’s probably not surprising that they’re doing this. I think it’s a really staggering stat.

Cloud 101
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Key Lessons from a $5B SaaS Category Leader (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

To me, companies will always be trying to innovate around how do they serve their customers better and their employees better in order to build their businesses and drive more revenue. And those of us and those of you who are involved in these companies, even the successful ones look an awful lot more like this.

SaaS 142
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AI Food Fights in the Enterprise

Andreessen Horowitz

It will be like AWS, GCP, and Azure. Right now, it’s a little bit like 2000 and the internet is about to take over everything and everybody’s super excited. Cisco in 2000, I think was worth half a trillion dollars at its peak. So there’s going to be innovation there. Cisco is the best 1, by far.

AI 97
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The SaaS Trust Crisis with Godard Abel (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And G2 Gives, we partner with philanthropies, we partner with some of our customers like AWS and Google Cloud, who can then make donations for every review, to thank their customers. There is, you know, tons of innovation, tons of new categories being created every year. They can make donations for those charities.

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

SaaStr

You got to be really frugal and you’re going out to innovate your way out of problems. You really innovate your way out of problems or engineer your way out of problems. Let’s innovate our way out of the problem.” And I remember like AWS was growing really quickly. It’s still really hard.