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PODCAST 135: Pushing Through the Zone of Discomfort Towards Personal Growth with AJ Bruno

Sales Hacker

The acquisition process [21:55]. And really, when I actually lived in Austin in early 2019, and everybody was talking about the TrendKite acquisition and about the impact that you all made even before you and I met. AJ Bruno: Yeah, that’s also an interesting story because in 2012, my wife and I were on the West coast.

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The Answers to Scaling, Hiring, and Everything Else: A SaaStr Europa AMA with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin (Pod 585 + Video)

SaaStr

What’s their acquisition channel? I’m going to get the numbers wrong, I think Amazon has 10,000 open positions out in AWS. In terms of when, actually, the timing hasn’t changed since the first SaaStr post here in 2012. I try to do it from a founder’s perspective, and you can learn from these.