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Instacart

Andreessen Horowitz

We pulled from my prior marketplaces experience and dove into their business quickly to develop a point-of-view on the opportunity. Over time, Instacart planned to build out an advertising revenue stream with CPG companies, offering them effective performance marketing with a primed, high-intent audience.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with PatientPop and Plaid — August 16, 2019

SaaStr

During his 5 years at PatientPop, Justin grew sales from $0 to $56m alongside the full build-out of the sales team. As a manager observing their team, what are signs that an individual is burning out? What actions and communications must they adopt to ensure that this feeling of culture over performance is accepted by the team?

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Cognota’s Ryan Austin on Creating an Entire Category (LearnOps)

FastSpring

Ryan Austin had VP-level experience in training when he decided to start a consulting business to help enterprise-level companies with their corporate learning and development initiatives. Ryan and his team noticed so many inefficiencies across the L&D workflows. “It There are now over 150 enterprise companies using the platform.

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Losing Sleep? Hiring Has Officially Replaced Cash as a Key Reason Startup Founders Are Up at Night

OpenView Labs

When I was on the operating side, strategic initiatives in 2019 and 2020 were all about “cash flow break-even”. Go-to-market (GTM) execution remains the top concern for startup founders in 2021, cementing its position over product execution (2019’s top concern). Cash is no longer a top concern.

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Q&A with Maria Pergolino, Anthony Kennada, Aaron Ross and Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Aaron Ross | CEO @ Predictable Revenue. And so, she can, and Anthony just finished up basically going from the first sales hire at Gainsight at almost 100 million in revenue and has just retired. Our monthly self-service churn went from like 3% to like 9%, right? Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW. Aaron : No.

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The 18 Outstanding Speakers at SaaStock LatAm 2019

SaaStock

The SaaStock team will be landing in São Paulo to run the region’s first Pan-Latin American SaaS conference, SaaStock LatAm. Aaron Ross, Co-CEO, Predictable Revenue. He dropped out of Stanford Graduate School of Business and then co-founded LeaseExchange, an online marketplace for equipment leasing. Diego Cordovez, CMO, Meetime.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Tidelift and Cloudflare

SaaStr

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. Where do most teams go wrong in implementing the role out of their CS strategy? Does Bridget believe CS teams should be involved in the upsell process?