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Hyperscaling Post-IPO with PagerDuty’s CEO, Jennifer Tejada (Podcast #485)

SaaStr

It’s super important to make sure that once you get through that public crossover, you’re still setting those milestones and audacious goals that get people excited and inspired to do their best work and create incredible products and services. a cloud communication platform, since Twilio’s acquisition of Sendgrid in February 2019.

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SaaStr Podcast #225: Stephen Burton, VP of Smarketing at Harness Discusses How To Create True Alignment Between Marketing and Sales

SaaStr

Stephen Burton is VP of Smarketing at Harness, the industry’s first continuous delivery as a service platform. Prior to Harness, Stephen was VP of Marketing at Glassdoor, managing a team of 52 in product marketing, helping grow B2B revenue from $19m to $90m in just 2 years, leading to their $1.2Bn acquisition. billion acquisition.

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How to Categorize Expenses in a SaaS Startup v2.0

Baremetrics

The gist of it is that Cost of Revenue includes costs that go into providing your Software as a Service. You’ll need Cost of Revenue to calculate your Gross Margin, which in turn you need to calculate Customer Lifetime Value (LTV), Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) Payback Time and to understand your company’s unit economics in general.

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Stripe’s Will Larson on engineering and infrastructure management

Intercom, Inc.

Boss, a build your own search service, and they contacted me. I stayed at Digg until the company closed and through this talent acquisition where we joined SocialCode. When I first joined Uber, I was actually hired as a DevOps manager, which was kind of funny in the sense that I literally didn’t know what DevOps was.

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The 3 Pillars of Product-Led Businesses

OpenView Labs

Product-Led Growth (PLG) is an end user-focused growth model that relies on the product itself as the primary driver of customer acquisition, conversion and expansion. The big advantage you have is distribution,” said Sid Sijbrandij, CEO and Co-founder of GitLab , a web-based DevOps lifecycle tool. ” a lot over the last few years.

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The 3 Pillars of Product Led Growth

OpenView Labs

Product led growth is an end user-focused growth model that relies on the product itself as the primary driver of customer acquisition, conversion and expansion. The big advantage you have is distribution,” said Sid Sijbrandij, CEO and Co-founder of GitLab , a web-based DevOps lifecycle tool.

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What is a good Net Retention Rate in SaaS?

CustomerSuccessBox

Although it is a company providing telecommunication services it takes real charges and has managed to keep its margins high as a software company of about 52% at $2B in ARR. For the cloud-scale applications, Datadog monitors the servers, tools, databases, and services, with a data analytics platform that is SaaS-based. Best Practices.