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5 Interesting Learnings from Amplitude at $150,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

They were founded in 2011 and IPO’d ten years later in 2021 at $150,000,000 in ARR, growing 57%, and have rocketed to a $7B+ valuation. Some leaders like Slack have seen the same, but most Cloud leaders at scale with high NRR end up getting more and more of their revenue from their existing base, not new customers.

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The 18 Awesome Women of SaaS in Asia

SaaStock

After five years at Ernst & Young in New York, she served as Vice President at Citigroup in the Big Apple. In 2011, she co-founded Grab (previously known as MyTeksi) together with fellow Malaysian and Harvard graduate Anthony Tan. She is in charge of the full SaaS solution sales cycle. Jessie Lam. Kathleen Ting. Maxine Ryan.

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Drata’s CEO Adam Markowitz on creating a culture of cyber security

Intercom, Inc.

And then, in the 50s, they introduced this new thing, and there was resistance. Evernote’s CTO on Your Biggest Security Worries From 3 to 300 Employees. It allows companies to prove their real-time security posture just about any day of the year, so it accelerates their sales cycles and security reviews. New year, new job.

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My First 16: Welding Yourself to Early Customers with Marqeta’s Jason Gardner

Andreessen Horowitz

About My First 16 Our new video podcast series My First 16 features interviews with founders and CEOs of fintech companies about how they acquired their initial customers and the hard lessons they learned along the way. And we felt that we couldn’t fail them and fail these new customers coming in at the same time.

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The Ultimate SaaS Pricing Resources Guide

OpenView Labs

New for 2020: SaaS Pricing and COVID-19. In this brand-new report, we finally answer the question “Freemium or free trial?” The State of SaaS Sales in a COVID-19 World. Pricing Low-Touch SaaS: How to Approach Pricing and Packaging a New SaaS App, by Example. Nudging Customers with Behavioral Tactics.

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PODCAST 123: How to Go From a Transactional Model to a Subscription Model with Brandon Meyers

Sales Hacker

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we’ve got a fantastic episode for you. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Welcome to Sales Hacker Podcast. We’ve got two sponsors, including a new one called Sapper Consulting. Sales enablement is easy. More sales meetings. We’re on iTunes. The result?

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From Freemium to Explosive Growth in a Crowded Market – 8 Years of Learnings with Zoom (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And also, we always prioritize the features requested by our existing customers over the new prospects. Eric Yuan : Yes, when I started the company in 2011, I was already 41 years old, but I still feel that I was very young. Not only for the product side, but for the sales and marketing side. Welcome Eric. Eric Yuan: Thank you.