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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 On the one hand, you can’t really afford to hire salespeople because your CLTVs don’t justify it. Well, you have to build a direct sales force. But it’s not the full story.

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

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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

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Earlier this year, we redoubled our focus on our enterprise segment where we have a strong leadership position. So, it’s like our sales pipeline, it needs to be five to 10 years. And those are the outcomes that we’re looking for. Think of this as something we identified as an advantage. Today, you still have doom fear.

Scale 154