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Three million downloads and counting: Inside Intercom reaches a podcasting milestone

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We’ll also hear Andrew Chen, general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, talking about the changing landscape of customer acquisition. Rachel now leads the marketing team at Notion, but back then, in 2018, Rachel was head of growth marketing at Slack. In 2018, we’re going to focus on the more typical demand gen functions.

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How Buffer Reached $20m in ARR by Focussing on Growing ARPA

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Joel had what he calls “an honest conversation” with Buffer’s CTO Dan. One interesting thing that Joel shared with us, was that he realized implementing these software tools would require a large investment, but he consciously made that decision: I would gladly spend $100,000 on a tool if that would allow me to avoid hiring.

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

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Prior to Crossbeam, Bob founded Stitched, a powerful ETL service built for developers that was acquired by Talend in 2018. How does Bob think about when is the right time to hire a Head of Partnerships? Where do most startups go wrong both in hiring for partnerships and in the engagements themselves?