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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Chargebee and Glassdoor — November 1, 2019

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Second, why does Krish believe it is one of the most important things any company must do? Does it have to be in person? Billion story from its launch in 2008 to its 2018 acquisition by Recruit Holdings. Billion acquisition is just one milestone in the early innings of the company’s story. What questions reveal the most?

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How Smart Contingency Planning Helped Salsify Get Through the Hardships of Covid-19

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Jason Purcell, Co-founder and CEO of Salsify, saw firsthand the crippling economic impacts of the 2008 Great Recession. In building Salsify, a product experience management company, he and his executive team expected another recession to occur at some point, and they knew they’d have to plan for the worst. Creating the Right Culture.

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The Playbook to Hiring Your First VP of Sales and Not Screwing it Up…….with Cassidy Ventures Founder Brendon Cassidy (Video + Transcript)

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You can come up to me after this and I can give you a list of 10 people, but find somebody that’s been a VP of Sales before successfully in a startup, scaled that to some level of success and make that person sort of an independent arbiter of that process. You may have been at Box in 2006 or LinkedIn in 2008. I don’t care.

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How to Acquire a $400B World-Class Company by WePay (Video + Transcript)

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WePay CEO Bill Clerico and COO Tina Hsiao discuss how the company went from launch to acquisition. WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. The day that acquisition closed, we became a 250,000 person company. Bill Clerico : Yeah.

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The Rules You Can Break, The Ones You Can’t With Tradeshift (Video + Transcript)

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I’m an entrepreneur-turned-investor, co-founder of an early generation one, SaaS company called Message Labs that we founded in 2000. Exited to Semantic in 2008 and had a good exit for the early SaaS businesses then set up Notion and we focus on SaaS companies, mainly in Series A in the European market. ” No.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Zylo and TaskRabbit — July 26, 2019

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She likes to invest across consumer, B2B saas, and technology infrastructure companies at the earliest stages. In 2008 Leah founded TaskRabbit, the leading on-demand service marketplace in the world. It’s not about the convincing sales rep or the old school view of a sales person anymore. Look at Eric Yuan at Zoom.