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SaaS in Africa: 10 Things We Learned From Scaling to 1M Users (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Join Anish Shivdasani, CEO of Giraffe, as he provides unique African experiences learned from scaling to 1M users. Giraffe is a mobile job matching platform that helps medium skilled workers get access to opportunities and helps businesses to recruit staff faster, and easier, and more affordably than any other way. How’s it guys?

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What the evolution of cities can teach us about building platforms

Intercom, Inc.

Theoretical physicist Geoffrey West , a leader in urban theory and the scientific modelling of cities, noted in his book Scale that “the job of a city is to facilitate and enhance [the continual exchange of information, goods and money between people] by providing the appropriate infrastructure. to encourage and increase social connectivity”.

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The SaaS Trust Crisis with Godard Abel (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And then I spent a year at Salesforce working on Marc Benioff’s extended leadership team, and really had a chance to learn how important trust can be, and also really learn from Salesforce, from Mark, how do you really build a global SaaS leader at scale? And you can see by 2050, this industry will be 10 times bigger.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Jennifer Tejada, Ben Chestnut, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

371: It’s no secret that businesses today are struggling with an unpredictable economy. And to do this, you’ve got to scale it through your managers. First, do no harm and deliver the business results. This episode is an excerpt from a session at SaaStr Summit: Enterprise. But management has changed.

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