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How to Retain Employees For 10+ Years with Alf Ruppert

FastSpring

And for the past 17 years, Alf has grown the company without any external funding and maintained a strong employee retention rate. Like the iPhone is 2008. My very first job, real job was in a company back then in the 90s, end of the 90s. And the problem was, I have no clue in software development. Alf Ruppert Yes.

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David Barrett, CEO of Expensify: Good Intentions, Bad Advice: How to Keep Your Board Aligned with Your Vision (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

It’s a brutal, awful slog in the start. I would say, it’s always good to call out just how awful it is to be a founder, to be an entrepreneur, because that is a unique perspective that you bring to the board room that no one else shares. They’re a very important part of the team. Is that about the…?

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Tidelift and Cloudflare

SaaStr

Why does Bridget believe the best starting point for customer success is “company culture and value”? How does company culture impact the quality of customer success? Where do most teams go wrong in implementing the role out of their CS strategy? Is there a customer success playbook that I have to develop?

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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. I do want to say that there are a lot of companies that actually started kind of with us, that class of companies and many of them have turned into big great companies today. And I remember like AWS was growing really quickly.