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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 Want to see more content like this? Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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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

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

SaaStr

And to do this, you’ve got to scale it through your managers. As a startup, we covered a lot of processes together really quickly out of necessity and we haven’t really had time or the wherewithal to go back to them and harden them for scaling. But management has changed. You can’t really see it until it’s bad.

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