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How Bolt uses Slack to kill internal email

IT World

At mobility services company Bolt, there’s a saying: “If you aren’t on Slack, you aren’t working.” Founded in 2013 in Estonia, the company—which offers ridesharing, scooter and bike rental, and food and grocery delivery services in 45 countries—now boasts more than 3,000 employees, all of whom communicate exclusively through Slack.

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Is This The Beginning of the End of the Bay Area as The Global HQ of SaaS?

SaaStr

In 2013, everyone that could come to the Bay Area to run a SaaS company, did. Atlassian, Adyen, Shopify and so many other leaders weren’t founded in the U.S., let alone the Bay Area. MongoDB, Datadog, and others have given New York a stronger and strong place in SaaS and Cloud. By 2018, it felt like about 50%.

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Top 10 Mistakes In 10 Years From Gainsight CEO Nick Mehta

SaaStr

Mistake: Not being myself Our first Pulse conference – which became the industry event for Customer Success – was in a small San Francisco ballroom in 2013. Stick to your values and vision and, in the words of Lin Manuel Miranda from Hamilton , “Wait for it.”

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How to Handle a Retreat: 16 Tips from Bufferoos as We Head to Cancún

Buffer Resources

Retreats are a pillar of Buffer’s company culture. “I will never forget how extremely nervous I was for the first gathering during the retreat in 2013,” Åsa Nyström, VP of Customer Advocacy, told me. How can I make sure I make the most of this in-person time? Will I make friends ?

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Building a sales team that can go from $0-$50M (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Gaetan Gachet : So myself, I joined the company back in 2013. million and it was back in 2013. Okay, cool. So Laura asked me to sort of like bucket our different … Yeah, take pictures of that. Stages of growth. I was the second employee at the time, the first one in a non-technical role. That was $54 million.

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The 18 Outstanding Speakers at SaaStock LatAm 2019

SaaStock

In 2013, Thiago joined Resultados Digitais, one of the most renowned SaaS businesses in Latin America. He started as Inside Sales Representative, and in five years, he became the Sales Enablement Director for the company. In 2013, he co-founded Vindi. Talk: Panel on Best Practices of Hiring for Culture Creation.

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Top 50 Women Leaders in Customer Success 2022

SmartKarrot

Irene is best known for building and executing successful customer strategies, cross-functional collaboration with customer-facing departments, creating a customer-centric company culture, and more customer-focused results. Hence, it’s no wonder that she has been continually voted the top Customer Success strategist since 2013.