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

SaaStr

Hubspot is an inbound marketing and sales software company based in Massachusetts. His thoughts on leadership in a nutshell? .” From 200-2008 she held leadership positions at Allegis Corporation and Intuit before ultimately joining Intercom in 2017. Brian Halligan is co-founder and CEO of Hubpost.

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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. What does Jeff mean when he says, “the developer first approach is a maturation of the supply chain of software?” What were his core learnings from that? * Jeff Lawson: Sure.

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Mental Models to Help You Grow

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

I leveraged many of the 52 mental models while working at various software as a service (SaaS) companies, but in truth, they can be applied anywhere, regardless of industry. Customer > Team > Individual During my time at HubSpot, the leadership team shared this mental model to help with decision-making.

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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.

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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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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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How Clio grew from a lifestyle business to a legal tech juggernaut

Point Nine Land

His comment to us was that the software is just too expensive, too inaccessible, too hard to use and so on,” recalled Jack. Law practice management software existed, but it required on-premise service and tens of thousands of dollars in annual upkeep, which meant only the big law firms had access to it.