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State of the Cloud 2019 from Bessemer Venture Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Join Bessemer Venture Partners’ Byron Deeter and Kristina Shen as they take a look at trends and predictions for the cloud industry in 2019. This marks the company’s fifth annual in-depth look at the cloud computing industry. And guess were how many of them were private cloud unicorns? Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Chris O’Neill and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

I’ve held a bunch of technology leadership roles in startups, in rocket ships and turnarounds, including about 10 years at Google, and just over three years leading efforts at Evernote. So over the course of those 20 or so odd years in technology leadership roles. Thank you, Jason and the SaaStr community, for including me.

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Starting Up In A Downturn with Cloudflare COO and Co-Founder Michelle Zatelyn (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Michelle : During the economic downturn right after the financial crisis in 2008. And I remember like AWS was growing really quickly. And at the time there was a big debate of, “Will big companies ever really use AWS?” You need to hire a leadership team that’s better than you in everything you do.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Tidelift and Cloudflare

SaaStr

Finally, before YesWare, she was VP of Sales @ Engine Yard, where she tripled monthly recurring revenue, over the course of her 3+ year tenure, in 3 key leadership roles. This is where the cloud meets. And we started CloudFlare during the economic downturn right after the financial crisis in 2008. Loving our podcast content?

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Twilio: The First $100m+ ARR with Jeff Lawson, CEO/Co Founder (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

We’ve done a ton of terrific sessions with the Twilio leadership over the years, including 4 different deep dives with Jeff Lawson, CEO and co-founder. Twilio is a cloud communications platform that allows software developers to embed communications into the apps that they’re building. Jeff : Yeah, I saw one.

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170+ Women in Sales Share Their Career-Defining Aha Moment

Sales Hacker

Bringing Sales & Leadership with Heart and Ladies Happy Hour to the sales community. I went through a VP of Sales Program with SaaSy Sales Leadership — the moment I realized I didn’t want to be a VP of Sales. She is a Speaker and Hostess for LinkedIn Live. What is one a-ha moment you’ve had in your sales career?

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