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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week: May 17, 2019

SaaStr

This podcast is an excerpt of Dug and Jennifer’s session at SaaStr Annual 2019. I’m a massive nerd when it comes to quota construction, per se, how do you think about building ambitious enough quotas for your teams to hit, but also not too ambitious that they get discouraged if they don’t hit them? Missed the session?

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Instacart

Andreessen Horowitz

Instacart was taking a unique approach to tackling this category, using a four-sided marketplace dynamic: By partnering with physical grocers, they were able to leverage those partners’ existing investments in construction and inventory. billion from 2019 to 2020. Instacart didn’t need to build and stock warehouses. billion to $20.7

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Chargebee and Glassdoor — November 1, 2019

SaaStr

As for Krish, under Krish’s leadership the team has grown to over 300 people and over 5,000 clients making it one of the next generation in truly global SaaS businesses started in India. This podcast is an excerpt from Robert and Neeraj’s session at SaaStr Annual 2019. Loving our podcast content? Harry Stebbings. Krish Subramanian.

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4 Ways the Pandemic Changed B2B Communication (From A Nationally-Representative Survey)

Sales Hacker

As our partners became our deskmates, so did pets, kids, and the neighborhood construction crew. As recently as 2019, 39% of businesses reached for email as the go-to communication method between coworkers. How COVID-19 changed sales leadership. Sales leadership also saw a shift since the onset of the pandemic.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Pleo and Talkdesk — October 4, 2019

SaaStr

How does leadership change for Jesse in the face of scale? How does Jesse think about scaling humanity and the personal touch with the scaling of his leadership? This podcast is an excerpt of Gillian’s session at SaaStr Annual 2019. Even our engineering leadership team is remote. Where are the challenges?

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State of the Cloud 2019 from Bessemer Venture Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Join Bessemer Venture Partners’ Byron Deeter and Kristina Shen as they take a look at trends and predictions for the cloud industry in 2019. And this doesn’t include companies like Ultimate, which are starting 2019 off strong as well. This marks the company’s fifth annual in-depth look at the cloud computing industry.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Airtable and Shopify Plus — October 25, 2019

SaaStr

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.