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Top 10 Mistakes In 10 Years From Gainsight CEO Nick Mehta

SaaStr

Later on, when we thought a new acquisition of raw technology was ready to scale (it wasn’t – it is now) In 2022 (like many companies), when we misread the “COVID bump” of 2021 for a secular change in software In each case, the mistake wasn’t being aggressive.

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Top 50 Women Leaders in Customer Success 2022

SmartKarrot

An advocate for inclusion and diversity, Dana is proficient in scaling businesses with the help of customer acquisition and retention. Hence, it’s no wonder that she has been continually voted the top Customer Success strategist since 2013. She is a growth leader who passionately follows the human-first approach. Daphne Lopes.

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

SaaStr

So, two years after you started your company is when you released the first product to general availability. That was January 2013. And, by May 2013, I think you had a million participants already? Mallun Yen: And do you see Zoom embracing that as part of organic internal development, partnerships or acquisitions?

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Engineering Your Own “Luck”: The 3 Key Rules of Building Globally Distributed Teams with Eventbrite (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Second thing that was true for us is that, I don’t know if you’ve heard much about Eventbrite and company culture, but it’s something that we’re very, very proud of. First off, in 2013 we made our first acquisition.

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“The “Dos & Don’ts” of Building Winning SaaS Companies with G2 Crowd (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Lars was one of his early customers at Cloudera and I met him at Dreamforce in 2013 and unbeknownst to me and my business partner Matt Gourniak, he came up to us. And so once you have that team, once you start doing acquisitions, you really have to keep everyone aligned. Lars said, “Hey I found a much better CPQ.”