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“The “Dos & Don’ts” of Building Winning SaaS Companies with G2 Crowd (Video + Transcript)

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I remember when I was in business school the internet was brand new and back then the hero was Jerry Yang. Tim Handorf you can see there, joined me at BigMachines in 2000. And I thank a lot of that to actually Met Gourniak, who I hired at that time. This was in 1997, and I spent two years. And selling with passion.

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SaaStr Podcast #394 with Sunil Dhaliwal and Jason Lemkin

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Over the course of that fund, I recruited in, who is effectively my co-founder, he runs Amplify with me, is Mike Dauber. Then, over the course of that fund, we had promoted up David Byer to partner and recruited Lenny Pruss away from Redpoint to join us. If I get picked, do I want the more experienced partner, the new partner?

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

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At SaaStr Annual we had a great session with HubSpot Founder & CTO, Dharmesh Shah, and their Chief People Officer, Katie Burke, on building happier employees. We hire remarkable people, and we give them a lot of freedom for how they’re going to get their work done. Who actually knows stuff and does things?”