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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Crossbeam and Podium – January 10, 2020

SaaStr

And that led me to co-founding a company called RJ Metrics in 2008 with my co-founder Jake Stein, who was also at Insight. What do we believe in as a company in terms of where we want the product to be in a few years? Really it’s more like product market fit solves all problems. Is that not?

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

SaaStr

Twilio is a cloud communications platform that allows software developers to embed communications into the apps that they’re building. If you succeed in doing that, then you start reaching these customers that are bigger, more sophisticated, they know what questions to ask, they have compliance and processes they have to follow.

Scale 286
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How Ecosystem-Led Growth Unlocks the Next Generation of GTM

Andreessen Horowitz

And like the modern cloud based CRM system was somewhat novel and new. People are not buying technology products and services in isolation anymore. They’re not replacing a license and maintenance-installed shrink-wrapped piece of software with that version, only in the cloud. And this is my third SaaS company.

Scale 120
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How Founders Can Take Control of Their Destiny with Tradeshift (video + transcript)

SaaStr

We looked at the world in 2008, 2009, and we said, “How come it’s almost impossible to connect two companies to do business, especially if they have complex business processes, but we can all connect as consumers on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, every single day we want to do business? Your product has value for them.

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Beyond the hype: Practical advice on building a platform

Intercom, Inc.

If you can create a scenario where others are building on top of your product – and therefore evolving it in ways you may not have the resources to do yourself – your offering suddenly becomes even more valuable to your customers. Here, Ceci unpacks her thinking for Intercom’s Group Product Marketing Manager, Jasmine Jaume.