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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Jennifer Tejada, Ben Chestnut, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

I’ve been in software since the ’90s and for over 20 years, nearly that entire time, we’ve been talking about digital transformation, developing strategies, architecting new technologies, and moving beyond digitization to rethinking our businesses, our products, and our services in a way that’s optimized for a digital world.

Scale 158
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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. Our monthly self-service churn went from like 3% to like 9%, right? We’re seeing that the marketplace is becoming like more and more noisy, right? We were wrong. The SMBs during the recession churned at a massive rate, right?

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GV’s Kate Aronowitz and Vanessa Cho on leading through design

Intercom, Inc.

Two decades later, these two women are blazing trails in design leadership. I was at an agency for a while and then moved to the Bay Area in 2001. We ended up having a leadership change that really disrupted the whole organization. What are some ways that designers and design leadership can pay it forward in the community?

Scale 149
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PODCAST 139: The Science of Becoming a Better Sales Leader with Luke Rogers

Sales Hacker

The keys to great leadership [18:24]. So there already exists an app store or the Instabase Marketplace where these first-party apps, you can go online now, download an app for automatically processing bank statements or driving licenses or passports. And before I knew it, I just had unprecedented demand for the services.

Scale 98
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The Midas List Live (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

One is two thirds enterprise, one third consumer, some healthcare as well now, and I would say, over the last few months, we have still continued with the same areas that we were excited about before so very much in marketplaces and consumer subscription and SAS. And so there were companies that had to pull their IPO in 2001.