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Revenue Alignment: How to Pull Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success Together with Divvy CRO Sterling Snow (Pod 628 + Video)

SaaStr

This structure drove the company to a $2.5 billion-dollar acquisition by Bill within five years. So, if the company falls short of their revenue target, it’s easy to know where the issue is coming from and how it can be rectified. “You

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How to Acquire a $400B World-Class Company by WePay (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

WePay CEO Bill Clerico and COO Tina Hsiao discuss how the company went from launch to acquisition. WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. The day that acquisition closed, we became a 250,000 person company. Tina Hsiao : Awesome.

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The Art of Ensuring Customer Success During Mergers and Acquisitions

SmartKarrot

Customer success is one aspect of corporate SaaS mergers and acquisitions that is sometimes overlooked. During mergers and acquisitions, even the slightest operational change can significantly influence both the staff and the clients. Reasons that make customer success essential during mergers and acquisitions. contact-form-7].

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The Toughest Roadblocks When Breaking Through to $15M ARR

SaaStr

Another thing I wish I had realized before is the fact that company culture is unfortunately not only about values you put on your wall but also about tough decisions. We are looking for talent acquisition people because we don’t have enough people in the H.R. Florian Douetteau: When there is a fire. And that empirically.

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Stripe’s Will Larson on engineering and infrastructure management

Intercom, Inc.

One of the exciting things about a company that is going through a little bit of change, a little bit of chaos, is there is a lot of opportunity, and for me that opportunity was getting to move into management. I stayed at Digg until the company closed and through this talent acquisition where we joined SocialCode.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Chargebee and Glassdoor — November 1, 2019

SaaStr

How does Krish think your customer acquisition and GTM strategy has to change with the movement from SMB to enterprise? Billion story from its launch in 2008 to its 2018 acquisition by Recruit Holdings. Billion acquisition is just one milestone in the early innings of the company’s story. Does it have to be in person?

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SaaStr Podcast #377 with Hashicorp CEO Dave McJannet

SaaStr

Their compensation’s not tied to it in the product organizations, but it’s a notional target that I interrogate and expect. What we should all be focused on is skills acquisition so that we know how to do this repeatably, not just trying to get good companies on a resume. People have to recognize careers are long.

Scale 186