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How to Retain Employees For 10+ Years with Alf Ruppert

FastSpring

Our former Director of Content and Community spoke to Alf about managing a happy team, how he’s grown his company without external funding, the history of developing in the Mac ecosystem, and running a consulting and software business. Stream the full interview below or find it wherever you listen to podcasts. And we did this together.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Tidelift and Cloudflare

SaaStr

Why does Bridget believe the best starting point for customer success is “company culture and value”? How does company culture impact the quality of customer success? Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Bridget or you can jump to the transcript of Michelle’s podcast. Harry Stebbings.

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SaaStr Podcast #209: Amanda Kleha, Chief Customer Officer @ Figma Discusses How To Ensure Successful Cross-Functional Communication

SaaStr

How does Amanda balance between a culture of risk taking but also not accepting failure to easily? * How does Amanda like to run the interview process? Why does Amanda like to not show emotion when interviewing a candidate? What are the benefits of this for the brand of your company? As I said, you’ve hired so many.

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SaaStr Podcast #403 with Loom VP of Sales Sam Taylor

SaaStr

Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Sam. But I got an introduction from a former colleague to Salesforce, and that was about a decade ago in 2010. So when I was there in 2010, the company was about 4,000 employees. Harry, you’re just interviewed for this entry-level role, you get the job.

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PODCAST 95: How to Nail Your 1-on-1s w/ Matt Cameron

Sales Hacker

Now, without further ado, let’s listen to this interview with Matt Cameron. Oftentimes I see six months or a year as a tour of duty to be the feet on the ground that helps hire and ingest new people in a way that’s consistent with company culture and gets them up to speed quickly. Great interview with Matt Cameron.

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Starting Up In A Downturn with Cloudflare COO and Co-Founder Michelle Zatelyn (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And so when you think back to what was happening, when we start back in 2010, when we were working on this idea in 2009, we just saw there’s this huge shift going on, where we were going from a world from hardware and software that you owned to services in the cloud that you rented. I mean, interviewing is so hard.

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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

Prior to joining SendGrid, he spent 4 years at Citrix, where he drove the company’s product strategy for cloud infrastructure and server virtualization. Sameer joined the company in 2010, when Citrix acquired VMLogix, where he served as CEO and doubled revenues during each year of his tenure. Are you ready? Thanks for the time.