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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 The challenge, however, is that because of the limited disposable income that both consumers and businesses have, you can’t charge a lot of money for services there. But it’s not the full story.

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

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The SaaS Trust Crisis is making it harder to market and sell software and services than ever before. And today, I’m very excited to be the co-founder and CEO of G2 where we’re building the world’s leading marketplace for SaaS software. 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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I’ve been in software since the ’90s and for over 20 years, nearly that entire time, we’ve been talking about digital transformation, developing strategies, architecting new technologies, and moving beyond digitization to rethinking our businesses, our products, and our services in a way that’s optimized for a digital world.

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