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Intercom’s Sanj Bhayro on creating the right foundation to help businesses scale

Intercom, Inc.

Sanj started working at Salesforce back in 2005, when the company had around 1,000 employees and a few hundred million in revenue, and he was a part of its growth for 14 years, holding several leadership positions in multiple markets in EMEA. In 2005, I was very lucky to join a company called Salesforce, which had just IPO’d.

Scale 210
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Finding the Next Wave of Growth: S-Curves and Product Sequencing

Casey Accidental

The Summit gathered ~40 CPOs and product leaders to chat through topics centered around product development and product-led growth. After product/market fit, most companies’ obsession is not thinking about how to create their next amazing product. Product/market fit has a positive slope.

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Kellblog Predictions for 2022

Kellblog

My point was that this is normal and healthy: you can long Miami and Austin without shorting Palo Alto which, by the way, would have been a bad idea in 2020. Is web3 going to change everything because, as Chris Dixon argues, the best entrepreneurs and developers have learned not to build atop centralized platforms? Web3 hype peaks.

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The Funnel is Dead. Long Live the Flywheel. With Hubspot CEO Brian Halligan (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Brian, if you don’t know who Brian is, conceived of HubSpot in 2005. The original concept for the company was an inbound marketing platform. 500 million, 6 billion market cap and probably most importantly, 52,000 happy, delighted, intrigued customers. People talk about B2B marketing. People talk about B2C marketing.

Scale 107
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The Funnel is Dead. Long Live the Flywheel. With Hubspot CEO Brian Halligan (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Brian, if you don’t know who Brian is, conceived of HubSpot in 2005. The original concept for the company was an inbound marketing platform. 500 million, 6 billion market cap and probably most importantly, 52,000 happy, delighted, intrigued customers. People talk about B2B marketing. People talk about B2C marketing.

Scale 48
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Unlocking the Power of the Blue Ocean Strategy: A Comprehensive Guide for SaaS Businesses [2023]

User Pilot

Definition and Origin The concept of blue ocean strategy was first introduced in the 2005 book “ Blue Ocean Strategy : How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant” by professors W. Blue Ocean’s strategy sees market boundaries and structures as flexible and shaped by companies’ actions.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week: Lessons from the Best in Tech — March 6, 2020

SaaStr

I came back to North America, we built out the inside sales team in North America over the next five years, building hubs in multiple countries, including in Bangalore, India, and assembling a global community of practice. Write it down, share the rough draft with your team, debate it, prioritize it. So it was a fabulous experience.

Scale 215