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

SaaStr

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Know who is the foundation of your product and build your product for that user (in Stripe’s case, developers). I’m an execution person.

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Finding the Next Wave of Growth: S-Curves and Product Sequencing

Casey Accidental

The Summit gathered ~40 CPOs and product leaders to chat through topics centered around product development and product-led growth. Most companies when they find product/market fit with their first product only have one acquisition and engagement loop that is successful, and the job of most of the team is to refine and scale those loops.

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

SaaStr

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Our team is in Room 111. They were self taught developers. Payments has been around for thousands of years. Dare I say SaaS. Your registration.

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Customer retention is the new conversion

Intercom, Inc.

We gave up chasing these mythical “grow your website with this one weird trick” things. Then you get them to your website. What the hell happens when they land on your website? What the hell happens when they land on your website? To bring us up to early 2014, you might be familiar with Product Hunt.

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A Top G Suite Expert Shares His 31 Best Modern Security Tips

BetterCloud

Kevin is recognized as a Google Developers Expert and G Suite Top Contributor. . Many of these tips are oldies but goodies to cybersecurity experts, but I’ve tried to include a few unique tips with my personal explanation for each. Plus, the website [link] has a great tool for passphrase generation.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Matt Garratt, Trisha Price, David Schmaier, Rob Bernshteyn, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

From strategies in recruitment and team building to sales tactics, these leaders from Salesforce, nCino, and Vlocity, will discuss the top tips for moving beyond horizontal SaaS and building a billion-dollar SaaS company. David, you talked a bit about the team and the founders. David Schmaier: Sure. Matt Garratt: Thank you.

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The Road Now Taken: 4 SaaS Start-ups And Their Quest For Independent Growth

Outseta

It made the rounds in tech circles online. Venture capital is not inherently bad or the manifestation of greed and commitments to impossible-to-deliver growth. series A round in December 2014 (60% was from Collaborative Fund) Bought out main series A investors (representing $2.3M The company even took $2.5M of the $3.5M