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A Look Back: How $13 Billion Ramp Began To Scale with Co-Founder and CTO Karim Atiyah

SaaStr

Co-founder and CTO Karim Atiyah came to SaaStr Annual to share how they got this rocketship … off the ground. ” SaaStr Take: Your early hires will define your company’s trajectory. Back in 2021 though, Ramp was just 2 years in — but already experiencing hypergrowth.

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Doubling Down: Erica Brescia, Managing Director at Redpoint Ventures

SaaStr

Jason Warner , who was CTO of GitHub before and during my time as COO there (and a former partner at Redpoint!) The pace of innovation in AI today is like nothing I’ve ever seen before in my career. This week we’re focusing on Erica Brescia, Managing Director at Redpoint Ventures! #1. Why did you do the deal?

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Is Seed the new Series A? (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

I think it’s more around a consciousness of what you know, or what you may not know, and then hiring around it to become successful. ” I’m kind of like, “Even if you make one or two sales in the next couple of months, with your VP sales, it’s going to take you three months to go and hire.”

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How to Close the Enterprise When You’re Just a Startup (Summit Replay)

Sales Hacker

This video training was originally presented at the 2019 Sales Hacker Success Summit. Find innovators (10:36). ? Identify who your innovators are, seek out those innovators. If you are trying to overcome no brand and market, you can’t ask somebody for a three year contract. What You’ll Learn. You offer that.

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How 13 SaaS Companies Use Community Marketing to Grow

Natalia Luneva

It has been running since November of 2019 and now has a membership of over 1,500! Of course, our team is involved to an extent, and we have an external part-time moderator for support. . #3 Laura Grand-Hill, Event Marketing Manager at Airbase (Spend management software) says: “ Our community, Off the Ledger runs on Slack.

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How 13 SaaS Companies Use Community Marketing to Grow

Natalia Luneva

It has been running since November of 2019 and now has a membership of over 1,500! Of course, our team is involved to an extent, and we have an external part-time moderator for support. . #3 Laura Grandi-Hill, Event Marketing Manager at Airbase (Spend management software) says: Our community, Off the Ledger runs on Slack.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Former Moveworks CIO and Lucidchart Co-Founder/CEO — December 13, 2019

SaaStr

This podcast is an excerpt from Karl’s session at SaaStr Europa 2019. I think the key thing that I had realized after several years in Her Majesty’s United Kingdom, it really centers on the fact that a lot of the technology that I was seeing was really, a lot of the innovation was happening in the Bay area. Harry Stebbings.