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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. And we started CloudFlare during the economic downturn right after the financial crisis in 2008. ” Because again, it was 2008.

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Key Lessons from a $5B SaaS Category Leader (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

To me, companies will always be trying to innovate around how do they serve their customers better and their employees better in order to build their businesses and drive more revenue. And those of us and those of you who are involved in these companies, even the successful ones look an awful lot more like this.

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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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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. You got to be really frugal and you’re going out to innovate your way out of problems. You really innovate your way out of problems or engineer your way out of problems. Let’s innovate our way out of the problem.”

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

SaaStr

And this goes back to ten years ago, which was 2008 and we released the ten laws of cloud computing at a CEO conference that we had that was meaningfully smaller than this. 78 times in the AWS … ADABAS was referenced in the Amazon press release and earnings announcement. Twice for retail.

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