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Salesforce’s Mike Kreaden on how to build a platform to drive growth

Intercom, Inc.

It’s now so inexpensive to go to market that having a great tech vision and product isn’t enough. And I remember Marc [Benioff] interviewing me, like he did every employee, and painting the vision for what the platform would be. It can’t just be a guy or a girl with a great tech vision saying, “Here’s my product.”.

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Disrupting the Desk Phone: How and Why We Made a $50M Acquisition with Dialpad (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

This is more technical question. And then you join the light side as a tech founder. You guys won Tech Crunch Disrupt in 2012. Some incredible VOIP technology infrastructure, a phenomenal team, and actually Keith is around here. So, I joined Google early on in 2003. Which one of you is the more organized?

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Building Customer Success Into The DNA of Your SaaS Start-up - An Interview With Aaron Fulkerson, CEO, MindTouch

Outseta

If you're interested in listening to the audio version of this interview, here's what you'll find. If the audio version of the interview isn't right for you, a slightly trimmed down transcription of the interview is available below. Enjoy! -- Geoff Roberts: Hi everybody. So I went around to the different product teams.

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Top 10 Lessons Learned in Getting to $100M ARR with Adaptive Insights (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Tom Bogan, CEO of Adaptive Insights, a Workday company, will review the key principles to building a successful SaaS company. So, early in my career, I started in technology a long time ago, and had the privilege of being President and running Rational Software in the early 2000’s and, as you may recall, we sold that.

Scale 138
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Decacorns & Unicorns in 2020: Founders Fund Keith Rabois and SaaStr’s Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

There are some companies that are technology companies that have to do work with them and do target them but that’s not the meat and potatoes of most companies. Don’t bother doing all the diligence, and young woman we’ll do it for you.” The Squares absolutely, Yelp to some extent absolutely. I think by segment.