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7 Secrets to a Successful SMB Go-To-Market Strategy with PayFit Co-Founder and CEO Firmin Zocchetto and Accel Partner Philippe Botteri (Pod 576 + Video)

SaaStr

Founded in 2015, PayFit is a software company that empowers entrepreneurs and SMBs to digitize payroll and HR processes. Boterri’s company Accel invested in PayFit in 2017 and again in 2021. But happy customers can not only expand your recurring revenue but also contribute to new conversions and acquisitions. .

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SaaStr Podcast #403 with Loom VP of Sales Sam Taylor

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As for Sam, prior to Loom, Sam spent over 4 years at Salesforce following their acquisition of Quip, a startup Salesforce acquired for $750M where Sam was also the 1st sales leader. Before Quip, Sam spent an incredible 3 years at Dropbox where he was the first enterprise sales rep in the entire company. This was in early 2015.

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From Slooooow Growth to Hypergrowth with Collibra and Insight Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Teddie : And also we’ve seen the BI market that’s been acquisitions at the last. So you said it took like four years to going to prove out the idea and you know, now the company’s about is a leader in the field of data governance. If you’ve read the report from my remaker recently, it was all about data.

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What Does it Take to Get CX Right? [It’s Not Just the Technology]

SmartKarrot

Over 80% of business leaders agree that CX offers a competitive edge — this remains unchanged across 2015 to 2020. By prioritizing experience, you save money in the long-term, making each existing customer more profitable and thereby reducing efforts needed for new customer acquisition. Pay attention to the CX engines. Yet, only 26.2%

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

SaaStr

Mallun Yen: And then, by June 2014, it was ten million, and by February 2015, you were at forty million. Mallun Yen: And do you see Zoom embracing that as part of organic internal development, partnerships or acquisitions? And, by May 2013, I think you had a million participants already? Eric Yuan : Yep, that’s right.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with SocialChorus, Trello, Gremlin, Terminal, Guild Education, Gitlab, and Pleo — November 15, 2019

SaaStr

282: Michael Pryor , Co-Founder & CEO @ Trello, now Head of Trello Product with Atlassian following their recent acquisition. And what I ultimately decided to do, because our investors were pretty nervous about this in 2015, was I posted the job description in Palo Alto, San Francisco and Denver.

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

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Before that Bob co-founded RJ Metrics, where he built a global base of online retailers leading to their acquisition by Magento Commerce in 2016. With more companies launching and thriving outside of Silicon Valley, regions such as ‘Silicon Slopes’ in Utah and ‘Silicon Alley’ in New York City are gaining traction within the startup scene.