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What’s New at Automattic and WordPress with Co-founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg

SaaStr

SaaStr was created in 2012 to democratize learning and how to build B2B companies, and WordPress was started in 2003 to democratize publishing. These products are part of a shared philosophy around user control of privacy, data, and open-source. People can set their own rules around data. It’s not meant to be a consumer brand.

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Strategy as a Series of Beliefs

Kellblog

Era 4 (2003-2005). Never, corporate data is highly proprietary. We believe that companies will need a centralized data catalog to help people find the data they need, and that machine-learning can help with that finding. Era 2 (data governance). Era 3 (data intelligence platform). Era 3 (1999-2002).

Strategy 101
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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Domo and Gorgias — April 24, 2020

SaaStr

327: John Mellor is Chief Strategy Officer @ Domo, the company that allows you to leverage BI at scale to empower your team with data. How does John think about the role of leadership in a crisis such as this? Where does John believe many leadership teams go wrong in times such as this? And that was kind of my entree into SaaS.

Scale 209
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Customer Growth Game Changer: Totango Breaking Records and Rewriting the Rules for Customer Success

Totango

Brady would go on to lead the Patriots to 17 division titles, 13 AFC Championship Games, nine Super Bowl appearances, and six Super Bowl wins before transferring to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2020 and leading that team to win its first Super Bowl title since 2003. This term applies to more than just athletes and sports, however.

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How Marketing Leaders Are Preparing for the Post-COVID Consumer

OpenView Labs

They believed, as they still do, that using data to develop personalized customer experiences and brand touch points was the key to a profitable and lasting relationship with their customers. As a result, technology and service providers are faced with an entirely new set of priorities from their clients’ senior leadership teams.

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Congratulations, You’ve Created a Category. Now What?

Kellblog

Market your category leadership. Thus, paradoxically, you likely would have been “dead right” as a BI vendor if you rejected the inclusion of financial planning in 2003. [10] Data source, the KeyBanc 2019 SaaS survey , shows median of $1.14 Now is the time to raise lots of VC and spend up to $1.70 to $1.71. [14]

Scale 104
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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with PatientPop and Plaid — August 16, 2019

SaaStr

258: Companies that have access to more accurate financial data have the ability to develop seamless exchanges of information, providing consumers with improved ways to manage their finances. But how do companies gain secure access to that data in the first place? I graduated school in 2003 and my dad had been in sales for 41 years.

Scale 133