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Dear SaaStr: What’s It Like to Have Your Company Acquired by One of the Tech Giants?

SaaStr

2018’s Top 50 Acquisitions in SaaS. Unless there is a huge earn-out or retention payment tied to performance, the pressure is off. I thought my sales team would leave quickly. My VP of Sales and the team stayed for 2.5 Most surprisingly, my CTO — the most start-up-ey guy I know — is still there.

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Why 2019 Is The Year Of Growth Engineering In SaaS

Hull

Over the past few years, we've seen a new role emerging at within scaling startups - the growth engineer. The explosion of SaaS tools (and with it, data silos) together creates a need for a cross-functional, operations role to support go-to-market teams. But first, we need to set some context (albeit from the perspective of B2B SaaS).

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PODCAST 93: The Journey from 2x Founder to VC with Angus Davis

Sales Hacker

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Angus Davis , VC and Partner at Foundation Capital. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. SMB Sales & SDRs at (Smaller) Scale [18:20]. Sam Jacobs: Welcome to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Angus is an amazing person — who never went to college. We’re on iTunes.