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

SaaStr

His thoughts on leadership in a nutshell? “A from 2007-2011 which eventually became Twitch. From 200-2008 she held leadership positions at Allegis Corporation and Intuit before ultimately joining Intercom in 2017. Prior to Logickull Andy was a software developer at EDS (an HP Company).

Scale 167
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Meet your first wave speakers for Customer Success Summit 2018

Totango

With more than 20 years in customer-focused leadership and management, Krista is an innovative leader passionate about engaging customers and creating excellence in customer experience across industries. Prior to joining Google in 2011, Dante has held several roles in higher education, consulting, and in software development.

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Meet your first wave speakers for Customer Success Summit 2018

Totango

With more than 20 years in customer-focused leadership and management, Krista is an innovative leader passionate about engaging customers and creating excellence in customer experience across industries. Prior to joining Google in 2011, Dante has held several roles in higher education, consulting, and in software development.

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Engineering Customer Success Processes for Maximum Impact

Valuize Consulting

Eventually, the movement made its way to the tech industry with 2001’s agile software development framework heavily inspired by lean principles and books like The Lean Startup published in 2011 by Eric Reis. Full buy-in from your executive leadership is also a must.

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State of the Cloud 2019: Europa Edition with Alex Ferrara, Bessemer Venture Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. One example I’ll give, one of the best companies out there on this metric was Shopify, which is a company that in around 2011 had about 12 million of ARR.

Cloud 101
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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. It still continues to gain acclaim for its growth, product, and leadership. Customer Support. Salesforce.

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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.