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The SaaS Trust Crisis with Godard Abel (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

The SaaS Trust Crisis is making it harder to market and sell software and services than ever before. And today, I’m very excited to be the co-founder and CEO of G2 where we’re building the world’s leading marketplace for SaaS software. The situation is getting worse. Godard Abel | Co-Founder and CEO @ G2.

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ChurnZero’s 10 Customer Success Leaders to Watch in 2019

ChurnZero

Leading a team of innovators and experts in their Customer Success, Professional Services, and Support organization, Amanda’s goal is to ensure that every customer optimizes the business impact of Lucidworks search and analytics deployments. “My Under her direction, marketplace utilization grew 39% in one year.

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The 18 Outstanding Speakers at SaaStock LatAm 2019

SaaStock

He dropped out of Stanford Graduate School of Business and then co-founded LeaseExchange, an online marketplace for equipment leasing. In 2012, he underwent a shift in his professional path and studied Technology Entrepreneurship at Stanford. Talk: SaaS.City Bootcamp: Sales Leadership. Talk: SaaS.City Bootcamp: Sales Leadership.

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Q&A with Maria Pergolino, Anthony Kennada, Aaron Ross and Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And at some point between year 2012 and 20 of the bull run, there may not be as good as it is today. Our monthly self-service churn went from like 3% to like 9%, right? We’re seeing that the marketplace is becoming like more and more noisy, right? This is the best of times in SaaS, right? Any thoughts? We were wrong.

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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. And there’s a lot of benefit to running a software as a service, in general. Rob Gonzalez: Yeah.

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Crushing the Pivot: Lessons Learned from a Product Reboot with TaskRabbit (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

We’re back in 2012. ” This was back in, yeah, it was probably about 2012. It may seem like a simple decision, but there is a lot of complexity in a two-sided marketplace where people are expecting to get paid. It was actually late 2012, early 2013 where we looked at the growth. The marketplace was doing well.

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Three million downloads and counting: Inside Intercom reaches a podcasting milestone

Intercom, Inc.

Liam Geraghty: From the very start, Intercom’s mission has always been to make internet business personal, so it’s not surprising that we’ve been podcasting for a long time; since 2012, in fact. A transactional marketplace like Uber, where riders can actually use it every day for commuting, is very nice.