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State of the Cloud 2019: Europa Edition with Alex Ferrara, Bessemer Venture Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

It was around that time about 12 years ago that Jeff Bezos launched AWS, and some of you may remember that, when he did this, Wall Street analysts were looking at him and saying, “Why would you take what’s already a very unprofitable business and drive it further into the red by investing in this AWS initiative?”

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What’s New at ZoomInfo with CEO Henry Schuck

SaaStr

So to serve both segments at the simultaneously, ZoomInfo has been rolling out a Product-led sales motion, that gives the ability for an SMB customer to sign up directly on their website for a free trial and grow into a paid customer, without ever having to talk to an sales rep or go through a demo process. What technologies do they use?

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When and How to Build Second Products

Casey Accidental

This year, topics ranged broadly from incorporating AI to deliver world-class consumer experiences to defining and measuring different forms of community-powered growth. In a previous post , I talked about how product work post-product/market fit shifts from zero to one innovation to features, growth, and scaling work.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Byron Deeter, Elliott Robinson, Henry Schuck, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

But it is really incredible and inspiring to see how these companies and these cloud leaders have ushered in this new phase of innovation and growth, even in the hardest moments of society. We’ve all seen AWS and what they’ve done with their platform. It is staggering. Because more and more hardware is becoming soft.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Airtable and Shopify Plus — October 25, 2019

SaaStr

So left Twitter to join a super early stage startup in the AI and messaging space, and once I knew my time up was there, I started thinking about what was next. 100% the traditional enterprise you should totally buy one of those platforms, but have you noticed where all the new ones are and all the fast growing innovative ones are?