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SaaStr’s Most Respected Leaders Awards 2019: The Top Ten

SaaStr

His thoughts on leadership in a nutshell? “A From 200-2008 she held leadership positions at Allegis Corporation and Intuit before ultimately joining Intercom in 2017. Jay Simons rose up the ranks from Area Sales Manager with Plumtree software to VP of Product Marketing and Strategy. Andy Wilson Logikcull Founder / CEO.

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Mental Models to Help You Grow

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

Customer > Team > Individual During my time at HubSpot, the leadership team shared this mental model to help with decision-making. Agile Agile software development has been such a success that people now apply the “agile” moniker to a broad range of areas. Repeatable systems are efficient, consistent and help you scale.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week: May 24, 2019

SaaStr

235: Andrew Filev is the Founder & CEO @ Wrike, the cloud based collaboration and project management software that scales across teams in any business. In Dec 2008, Vista Equity Partners acquired a majority stake in Wrike for a deal reportedly valuing the company at $800m. So that turned out to work well for everybody.

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What Are The Top 50 SaaS Companies in 2020?

SmartKarrot

The Atlassian Corporation has reached billions in revenue even without an enterprise sales team, all by creating user-friendly software development, team collaboration, project management tools including JIRA and Confluence. SAP has grown two streams of revenue: cloud and software revenue, and services revenue. Customer Support.

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SaaStr Podcast #218: Twilio Founder, Jeff Lawson & SendGrid CEO, Sameer Dholakia on Why Developer First Is A Maturation In The Supply Chain Of Software

SaaStr

Before that, he worked for 12 years at Trilogy, where he held key leadership roles helping the company grow from a start-up to a $300 million business. How do Jeff and Sameer think about what what truly special leadership looks like today? Really quickly, I am a software developer and I’d started multiple companies before Twilio.

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Prashanth Chandrasekar on writing the script of the future

Intercom, Inc.

But that sort of transformation doesn’t just happen on its own – it is the culmination of the tireless work and effort of millions of engineers and developers, building new things and overwriting old tools. I continued that journey with more software programming languages like Pearl and Java and so on. Jordan: Cool.

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

SaaStr

We’ve done a ton of terrific sessions with the Twilio leadership over the years, including 4 different deep dives with Jeff Lawson, CEO and co-founder. Twilio is a cloud communications platform that allows software developers to embed communications into the apps that they’re building. Jeff : Yeah, I saw one.

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