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Avoid Trapdoor Decisions: 5 Lessons Learned from Scaling Stripe (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. Know who is the foundation of your product and build your product for that user (in Stripe’s case, developers). Know your forever user.

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SaaStr Podcast #217: Stripe COO Claire Hughes Johnson on The Trapdoor Decisions to Avoid When Scaling

SaaStr

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. In fact, more than 80% of Americans in the last year bought through Stripe, but obviously through a business that ran on Stripe.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Crossbeam and Podium – January 10, 2020

SaaStr

Prior to Crossbeam, Bob founded Stitched, a powerful ETL service built for developers that was acquired by Talend in 2018. Prior to Crossbeam Bob founded Stitched, a powerful ETL service built for developers that was acquired by Talend in 2018. We didn’t take our first dollar of outside capital until 2012 for that business.

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The Need-to-Know Mobile App Marketing Resources for This Year

The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

Preparing for the future As an app marketer in 2019, the best way to prepare for mounting competition and further technological transformation, is to embrace a curious outlook, a dynamic approach, and an obsession with both professional and performance development. trillion hours by 2021.

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SaaStr Podcast #398 with Salsify Co-Founder & CMO Rob Gonzalez

SaaStr

Eight years ago, we founded the company, September 2012. So we had a deep experience in the e-commerce space and it just, in 2012, it felt right. In 2012, Wall Street didn’t really know how to value SaaS companies. So how did you make your way into the world of SaaS, and how did you come to found Salsify?

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Bernadette Nixon, Jay Snyder, Nick Mehta, Loren Padelford, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

Nick Mehta: Power of the developer, or the API economy, both of you play very much in both those trends. It’s hard to find any other uber categories than that, but then for CS people sometimes, it’s challenging for them to make that connection from using a feature of New Relic to driving business value. Nick Mehta: Yeah.

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The Quick, Smart & Actionable Guide To Building Your Sales Process

Sales Hacker

In a practical sense, your sales process serves as a model by which any member of your sales team can replicate success in finding prospects, solving customer problems, closing deals, performing upsells, and bolstering client loyalty. . You might find sales process examples online that perfectly match your business model.

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