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What the evolution of cities can teach us about building platforms

Intercom, Inc.

Well over half of the world’s populations currently live in cities and this percentage is expected to rise to over 66% by 2050. The whole point of these platforms is that they have one market or meeting place. We know that the world is urbanising at a faster rate than ever before. The number of cities continues to increase.

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

SaaStr

The SaaS Trust Crisis is making it harder to market and sell software and services than ever before. And you can see by 2050, this industry will be 10 times bigger. And you can see marketing is the number one user of software, probably no surprise, many of you are marketers. The situation is getting worse.

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Starting the Zero-Waste Knowledge Revolution with GrowthTalk

The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

To keep up with the world of 2050, you will need to do more than merely invent new ideas and products, but above all, reinvent yourself again and again.?—? Another key takeaway here is that content is actually good marketing. Times are changing and evolving fast. And the direction is clearly heading there. I will say it again?—?from

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

SaaStr

Between now and 2050, half of the world’s population growth will occur in Africa. Between now and 2050, another 2.4 Also last year, of the 10 fastest growing Internet penetration markets in the world, 8 of them were in Africa. Most African markets never had a banking infrastructure the like of which we used to here.

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

SaaStr

And this current environment that we’re in, marked by an ongoing global health crisis, by lockdowns, by remote work, social distancing and civil unrest and market volatility, it’s challenging in new ways that we as leaders have never experienced. Not the least of which, by being exhausting. for our employees.