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Nassim Taleb, a 90s Mobile Game, and Why Payment Gateways Alone Don’t Offer Revenue Growth

Chargebee

In 2007, mathematical statistician and former Wall Street trader Nassim Nicholas Taleb argued that inflexibility, even in the most meticulously built systems, ultimately makes them fragile. Take the example of Taneli Armanto’s late-90s breakaway mobile game – “Snake.” ” The objective […]

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The decade software ate the world

Intercom, Inc.

Facebook was peerless, however, in being able to harness and monetize all that attention, even if that success brought uncomfortable scrutiny. Rise of mobile. The Cambridge Analytica scandal showed just how vulnerable these platforms are to being misused by bad actors. Big tech takes over.

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Becoming Indistractable

ProfitWell

Succeeding in subscription also means having business flexibility—try new things and iterate quickly on offerings, as ultimately, needs change. Operationally speaking, this could range from offering a new service for mobile readers, creating new pricing models, or offering new payment methods.". Have any of you read Nir’s work?

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The top SaaS companies ruling the East Coast

SaaStock

Founded: 2007. Collibra provides a cross-organizational data governance and catalog platform that helps companies maximize the value of their data. Kustomer ’s customer management platform combines data from various sources and allows companies to offer an intelligent, powerful and flexible service. Based in: New York.

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The SaaS superstars of the East Coast

SaaStock

Founded: 2007. Collibra provides a cross-organizational data governance and catalog platform that helps companies maximize the value of their data. Kustomer ’s customer management platform combines data from various sources and allows companies to offer an intelligent, powerful and flexible service. Based in: New York.

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How to Build a $18B+ Success Story Far Away from Silicon Valley with Adyen (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

In this session, the audience will learn about Adyen’s journey from a Dutch payments startup, to a global public company with more than 15 offices around the world working with large global companies like Facebook, Spotify, Uber and Microsoft. I mean payment cultures, payment habits are, yeah, different in every country all over the world.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Byron Deeter, Elliott Robinson, Henry Schuck, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

We celebrate businesses like that, and of course, the platform we’re on today with Zoom, that has really become a communications platform that’s defining this COVID era. If you look at the IAS vendors, they passed $130 billion revenue milestone this year. It is staggering. We call that a second act.