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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. Between now and 2050, half of the world’s population growth will occur in Africa. Between now and 2050, another 2.4 Most African markets never had a banking infrastructure the like of which we used to here.

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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

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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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. And to do this, you’ve got to scale it through your managers.

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