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5 Interesting Learnings from Braze at $260,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

Braze was early to taking a next-generation approach to marketing automation software, focused on being mobile and messaging first. Dramatically accelerating its new customer count at scale. But the past several quarters Braze has doubled its new customer growth, from 22%-29% to 48% today. 2016 customer cohort spends 3.2x

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The 18 Awesome Women of SaaS in Asia

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After five years at Ernst & Young in New York, she served as Vice President at Citigroup in the Big Apple. After 11 years in finances, in 2016 she became the CFO of Brinc.io, boldly entering into the tech world. And then she studied software development at Fullstack Academy. Kathleen Ting. Kandy Yeung.

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It’s Wise to Question the Big Assumption about Consumption Pricing

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Consumption pricing –a licensing model where software is sold based on use (actual traffic, transactions, etc.) It’s the kind of notoriety that is leading to a wave of consumption pricing for new software companies and causing established companies to consider whether they too should switch to a usage-based model.

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What If Chat Overtakes Email in the Workplace?

BetterCloud

Last year, our CEO David Politis sat down for a wide-ranging chat with Bharat Mediratta, CTO of Dropbox. In 2016, Walt Mossberg wrote an article for The Verge in which he argued that Slack beats email, but still needs to get better. “At As of April 1st, 2016, that number had rocketed to 2.7

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More of SaaStr’s Most Respected Leaders Awards List Revealed!

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Every week we’ll be rolling out new winners until we get to the very pinnacle of our list. Namely is an HR software company that offers HR, payroll, benefits and talent management tools to businesses. She later joined Jive Software as President and CEO before going on to Namely. Eric Yuan Zoom Founder/CEO.

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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.

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Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot: From Day 0 to IPO. What Went to Plan. What Most Certainly Didn’t (Video, Podcast + Transcript)

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In 2016, Hubspot was still a scrappy player that had only recently IPO’d, with a market cap around $1B. Co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah shared with us how they got there — and the top mistakes they made — just 3 quarters after their IPO. There are rules in starting an enterprise software company.