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

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Between now and 2050, half of the world’s population growth will occur in Africa. Between now and 2050, another 2.4 Well, you have to build a direct sales force. This was actually a blessing in disguise because by getting direct sales, and I mean, I sold myself in the beginning for quite a long time.

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

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And you can see by 2050, this industry will be 10 times bigger. There is, you know, tons of innovation, tons of new categories being created every year. And the reality is most of them don’t, most of our customers and prospects don’t trust us, especially those of us in sales.

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

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Join PagerDuty’s CEO, Jennifer Tejada, as she discusses the need for agility and innovation and how automation is aiding adaptability and allowing enterprises to surge ahead. So looking forward, we also need to innovate and automate policies around flexible working, childcare and lead to address some of these challenges.

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