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Narrative Economics and the Power of Stories

Tom Tunguz

In particular, narratives stoked three depressions and recessions in the US in 1920, 1929, and 2008. The founders have built three companies in the domain, sold their last one to Salesforce, and developed Kustomer with all the knowledge and insights from those experiences. Positive narratives are just as mighty.

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The SaaS Org Chart Live with David Sacks (Podcast #491 and Video)

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In 2008, he founded Yammer, an enterprise software company that David grew to 500 employees and $60 million in sales. Positions Needed: Developers (Front-End and Back-End), Client Applications, Core Services/Platform, Analytics, and DevOps. Head of Sales. Positions Needed: FP&A Analyst, Accountant, HR, Ops, Recruiter.

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Narrative Economics and the Power of Stories

Tom Tunguz

In particular, narratives stoked three depressions and recessions in the US in 1920, 1929, and 2008. The founders have built three companies in the domain, sold their last one to Salesforce, and developed Kustomer with all the knowledge and insights from those experiences. Positive narratives are just as mighty.

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SaaStr Classic: Jyoti Bansal of Harness.io and AppDynamics; Dev Ittycheria of MongoDB (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

They talked about product adoption, sales alignment, freemium models and lessons they have learned throughout their successful SaaS careers. As two CEO who love the art of sales and scaling, this one really was special. When I was starting as a first time entrepreneur in 2008, I got rejected by a lot of VCs. Jyoti Bansal: Yeah.

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SaaS Office Hours at Redpoint with Bill Macaitis

Tom Tunguz

How can I evangelize my product to developers? How do I create the right kind of recruiting process? On November 4, we’ll chat with Kenny van Zant, the creator of high velocity inside sales techniques and flywheel business models. In 2008, Bill joined Salesforce as SVP of Online Marketing and Operations.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Work-Bench and Initialized Capital — May 8, 2020

SaaStr

Prior to Work-Bench, Jessica was a Learning and Development Manager at Cisco Systems, where she worked with the Engineering organization on Agile transformation, innovation and culture. Where does Jessica find managers and founders do pipe reviews wrong? How should sales teams and CS respond to requests for discounts?

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How to Find Product-Market-Sales Fit

Andreessen Horowitz

One of the toughest challenges for founders — and especially technical founders who are used to focusing so much on product features over sales — is striking “product-market fit”. So in that shift from product-market fit to product-market-SALES fit, how much should you optimize your go-to-market for product… and even the other way around?