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SaaStr Podcast 436: The State of the Cloud 2021 with Bessemer Venture Partners

SaaStr

The Cloud is expanding and moving forward at a phenomenal rate, so we invited the team at Bessemer Venture Partners back to SaaStr to unveil their latest findings in the 2021 State of the Cloud. As of January 2021, there were over 527 private unicorns with a total cumulative value of over $1.9 Hello Unicorns .

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Here’s Who’s Hiring a VP of Sales in January

SaaStr

Take heart, with the stock market still performing well into 2021 and vaccines beginning distribution across the United States, things are looking up. — Jason BeKind Lemkin (@jasonlk) January 4, 2021. Add all of these considerations to an already competitive job market, and the search may seem insurmountable.

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Building a Data Engineering Stack That Boosts Scalability

Chart Mogul

In 2021, ChartMogul experienced a transformative shift in data strategy when we introduced a dedicated data engineering team. Updating the data engineering stack streamlined data processing; reducing the time and effort invested in manual data handling.

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2021 in conversation: Learnings from the podcast

Intercom, Inc.

With that in mind, before we welcome the new year and all the good things to come, we’ve gathered our favorite insights and nuggets of wisdom from 2021 in a special wrap-up episode. Our International Women’s Day theme in 2021 is #ChooseToChallenge. And here at Intercom, 2021 saw us reach many milestones.

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International Women’s Day 2021: Choose to Challenge

InsightSquared

To me, choosing to challenge means that you have to choose to withstand passive aggression and constructively challenge traditional concepts of hierarchy to make real improvements. I pursued a leadership path that eventually led to a consulting role, where I built my client management and data analysis skills.

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To Really Scale, You Need $1M on Your Balance Sheet for Every $2M in ARR

SaaStr

But I still had to worry about the costs of making data-driven, well-thought-through, but unproven mistakes. ” It can happen, at least, as a construct, to anyone. — Jason BeKind Lemkin (@jasonlk) January 24, 2021. If I’d had $5m+ on the balance sheet, I would have made far, far more investments.

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SaaS Valuation Multiples Decoded

SaaSOptics

The run-up in SaaS stocks in 2020 and 2021, and then the subsequent sell-off this year may not be telling you what you think it is. The answer is in the construction of the indexes themselves. Valuation Multiples in 2020 and 2021 Appear to be Outliers. So what are the implications for private SaaS companies?

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