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Sales–Product Tension: The Secret to Segment’s Success

Andreessen Horowitz

In this conversation recorded at ELC 2023, Segment’s former CRO Joe Morrissey and former chief product development officer Tido Carriero discuss how they turned sales-product tension into a successful $3.2B acquisition. The problem is the sales team. The sales team don’t know how to sell the product.

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Managing a Thin Balance Sheet: 4 Lessons Learned From Laika’s $2 Billion Acquisition with Laika Co-Founder & COO Eva Pittas and CFO Dicken Chaplin (Video)

SaaStr

Founded in 2019, Laika (an enterprise-ready compliance platform) closed a $50MM Series C by the summer of 2022. They can also help secure the data, reporting, process, and discipline a business need to evaluate progress so it can develop the accountability necessary to drive operational excellence. Live and die by the forecast.

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The Marketer’s Guide to Product Led Growth Marketing

User Pilot

But first, an easily digestible definition for those who are new to the concept: Product led growth marketing is the use of the product as the primary driver of acquisition, and it also brings marketing’s involvement into expansion and retention. Poor retention and low customer LTV. What is product led growth marketing.