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10 Learnings From Jeff Lawson (CEO Twilio) + Byron Deeter (Bessemer Ventures): “Adapt, Plan, Deliver”

SaaStr

He joined StubHub as CTO, but didn’t get nearly as much equity as the other CTO — because he “wasn’t committed enough.” Started Twilio in January 2008, just as the last downturn happened. VCs didn’t think developers would buy anything. He learned paper millions can go to zero ??.

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The 18 Awesome Women of SaaS in Asia

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After five years at Ernst & Young in New York, she served as Vice President at Citigroup in the Big Apple. She is also an active tech investor in Asia, complementing the financing with business development insights. And then she studied software development at Fullstack Academy. Jessie Lam. Jessica Liu. Kathleen Ting.

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Loyalty Prime Raises $5.5 million for Next-Generation, AI-based Loyalty Marketing SaaS Platform

The SaaS Garage

million dollar Series B to drive the development of its next generation AI-based loyalty software. Founded 2014 in Munich, Germany, Loyalty Prime has quickly developed itself into a leading loyalty program tech provider, serving blue-chip companies around the globe from a wide range of industries. Loyalty Prime Raises $5.5

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Loyalty Prime Raises $5.5 million for Next-Generation, AI-based Loyalty Marketing SaaS Platform

The SaaS Garage

million dollar Series B to drive the development of its next generation AI-based loyalty software. Founded 2014 in Munich, Germany, Loyalty Prime has quickly developed itself into a leading loyalty program tech provider, serving blue-chip companies around the globe from a wide range of industries. Loyalty Prime Raises $5.5

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How IT Will Shape the Future of Workplaces

BetterCloud

Even companies that previously hated the idea of WFH had no choice but to embrace this new reality. To answer this question and many more, our CEO David Politis was joined by Dropbox CTO Bharat Mediratta. A 2008 article in the Harvard Business Review shared the story of an IT executive who had just made the decision to centralize.

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More of SaaStr’s Most Respected Leaders Awards List Revealed!

SaaStr

Every week we’ll be rolling out new winners until we get to the very pinnacle of our list. Automattic is a web development company best known for “Wordpress.com”. Twilio allows software developers to programmatically make and receive phone calls, text messages, and other communications through its web service APIs.

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

SaaStr

Prior to Crossbeam, Bob founded Stitched, a powerful ETL service built for developers that was acquired by Talend in 2018. With more companies launching and thriving outside of Silicon Valley, regions such as ‘Silicon Slopes’ in Utah and ‘Silicon Alley’ in New York City are gaining traction within the startup scene. Yep, we did that.