SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

This podcast is an excerpt from Karl’s session at SaaStr Europa 2019. And what that has resulted in is that you have CIOs and their leadership teams are basically involved in architecting systems across the company and what those basically mean. Harry Stebbings: What are you expecting from AWS this year? Harry Stebbings.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 15, 2019

I think maybe once we saw the deck that they were using and it was pretty awful. When we first started doing this, we didn’t have a sales deck and so we just let them do their own thing. They gave a presentation to their boss. So now we give them a modified version of our deck so that they can use that to do that presentation.

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SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

Finally, before YesWare, she was VP of Sales @ Engine Yard, where she tripled monthly recurring revenue, over the course of her 3+ year tenure, in 3 key leadership roles. You know, the last time we did this, it was, I think, February 2019, so just a little over a year ago. And I remember AWS was growing really quickly.

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SaaStr

MAY 14, 2019

We guided towards $800,000,000 for 2019. Mikkel : Well again, the public cloud, AWS, was the dominant leader. We are seeing platform shifts from how they traditionally run their infrastructure and services and business to seeing them run that stuff on AWS. We ended just shy of $600 million dollar in revenue for the year.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Bringing Sales & Leadership with Heart and Ladies Happy Hour to the sales community. I went through a VP of Sales Program with SaaSy Sales Leadership — the moment I realized I didn’t want to be a VP of Sales. She is a Speaker and Hostess for LinkedIn Live. What is one a-ha moment you’ve had in your sales career?

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

If you look back on February 5th, 2019, which was the SaaStr Annual, hopefully many of you were there in person, we gave the state of the cloud presentation and talked about the power of the industry, and the power that’s been building in terms of market capitalization of just the public cloud companies and what they show.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 17, 2019

And we were using a solution from Amazon AWS… We had one big issue first, which was a number of regions they were supporting were not the same vendors. Like we have 15-16 region worldwide, but you may not want to use all of them, so you can control your costs. The geo distribution is done by the DNS.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

For a long time, until this boom, until the 2019-2021 boom, crossover funds would be very careful. I’m going to get the numbers wrong, I think Amazon has 10,000 open positions out in AWS. Jason Lemkin: Crossover funds can go where it’s greener. I think Azure’s like 7,000, Google. I think hiring is harder than ever.

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SaaStr

JUNE 25, 2019

Now, I have some background with luck because in between some long stints with other companies, seven years at Eventbrite and 15 years at Ticketmaster before, I spent five years of my life playing poker for a living and learned an awful lot about luck and positive outcomes as well.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

And really, when I actually lived in Austin in early 2019, and everybody was talking about the TrendKite acquisition and about the impact that you all made even before you and I met. And we were bought during the government shutdown in January 2019. And their stock got cut in half in the summer, summer of 2019. Total dog s**t.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2019

Sameer Dhokalia: It turns out if you do ask those two basic questions of 100 people in your business, you will learn an awful lot about what needs to be focused on. This year we’ll probably do as much in revenue this year in 2019 with that second product as all of SendGrid was doing at the time that I joined. That was perfect.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Why does Liat reject the notion of “hands off leadership?”. I think in general it’s only fair to the team, especially to those top performers, for the leadership of that organization to address performance issues as soon as possible. I don’t think leadership is about pure delegation nor about micromanagement.

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2020

And I remember like AWS was growing really quickly. And at the time there was a big debate of, “Will big companies ever really use AWS?” So again, when you start a company and then now we’ve scaled it to in 2019 we did about 287 million in revenue last year. Michelle: Yeah. It’s, pretty phenomenal.

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SaaStr

MAY 21, 2019

Join Bessemer Venture Partners’ Byron Deeter and Kristina Shen as they take a look at trends and predictions for the cloud industry in 2019. 78 times in the AWS … ADABAS was referenced in the Amazon press release and earnings announcement. Want to see more content like this? Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. Twice for retail.

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