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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. a16z has long had an investment theory that we should invest behind strengths of a business model and opportunity, not lack of weakness. billion from 2019 to 2020. It truly has been a team effort.

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The Playbook to Scaling High-Performance Teams with Gusto COO Lexi Reese (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Lexi Reese, Gusto COO uses her 20+ years of experience to provide advice on building high performing teams using authenticity, empathy and logic. Lexi explains the importance of team trust, driver and passenger mindsets, and much more. Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. Who was the highest engaged teams? They have impact.

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How I've Grown To 6 Figures In 3+ Years As A Content Agency Owner

Buffer Resources

  Agencies that were good at providing technical assistance or managing paid channels left clients, like my employers and other businesses we worked with, hanging when it came to content strategy and development.  After all, most leads consume three to four pieces of content from a vendor before engaging with their sales team

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Crossbeam and Podium – January 10, 2020

SaaStr

Prior to Crossbeam, Bob founded Stitched, a powerful ETL service built for developers that was acquired by Talend in 2018. Harry Stebbings: Welcome to the very first SaaStr podcast of 2020. Where you can also suggest future guests for the show, but to our first guest of 2020, and I’m thrilled to welcome Bob Moore.

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14 SaaS Leaders Share Their Favorite Interview Questions

OpenView Labs

What’s your biggest weakness? “‘Tell me about the last piece of constructive feedback you received and what you did with that feedback.’. A candidate who can’t give me a real answer may not be open to feedback or may lack the humility I want to see on my team.”. It’s just not productive. I have two: 1.

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International Women’s Day 2021: Choose to Challenge

InsightSquared

I recently joined InsightSquared in Q4 2020 after 4 years of consulting independently for small and medium sized businesses; I focused mainly on operational efficiency and maximizing profit. . Focus on the things that you can control and work to win, understanding as you engage with your team, or anyone really.

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Louis Rosenfeld on how UX design can close the gaps between people

Intercom, Inc.

We will work with you over months iteratively to develop that idea. I didn’t know if I wanted to be a librarian, but I wanted to bring librarianship to new settings, like this big information world we were constructing out of digital stuff. It’s going to happen in New York toward the end of March or early April of 2020.