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What’s New at Google Cloud with CMO Alison Wagonfeld

SaaStr

In the latest installment of SaaStr’s What’s New series – where we sit down with the leaders in SaaS and Cloud for the inside scoop on what’s top of mind and what’s new, SaaStr CEO and Jason Lemkin chats with the CMO of Google Cloud, Alison Wagonfeld.

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Why Now is a Great Time to Raise Seed Funding. Even If It’s Awful for Series A-E Rounds.

SaaStr

With the BVP Cloud Index down 40%+ from a year ago , and many of the top Cloud leaders trading for as low as 5x ARR, it’s just hard to justify a later stage $300m-$400m valuation round these days, let alone a true unicorn round. Second, top funds (including Sequoia this week) have brand-new Seed funds.

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Snowflake, CrowdStike and SumoLogic: “How to Leverage the Cloud Giants to Scale to 100 Million ARR and Beyond”

SaaStr

Jessica Alexander, Senior Director Cloud Technology & OEM Partnerships, Crowdstrike. This episode is an excerpt from a session at SaaStr Scale. This episode is an excerpt from a session at SaaStr Scale. But with cloud computing spend, it’s concentrated typically with one primary vendor. Rico Mallozzi, Sr.

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Who’s Accelerating in SaaS? DataDog. HubSpot. Zendesk. Everyone.

SaaStr

We all know times are good in SaaS and Cloud — but just how good? Is it all the big public cloud vendors and a handful of outliers? It really is almost everyone at SaaS that is at scale and has a winning brand. AWS accelerated to 37% YoY growth , up from 32% last quarter. Now is your time, folks.

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The Most Common SaaS Sales Potholes and How to Avoid Them with Mark Roberge (Podcast #498 and Video)

SaaStr

Salespeople are often compensated at the highest rate when they win brand new business, but that might not be good for revenue expansion and might contribute to churn. So instead, Roberge suggests updating sales comp plans to pay higher for expansion revenue wins over brand new wins. When should you scale?

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The decade software ate the world

Intercom, Inc.

The most triumphant transfer of control from an original generation leader to a new CEO was surely that of Microsoft, which pivoted from chasing after Apple’s success in the consumer space under Steve Ballmer (don’t mention Nokia ) to successfully focusing on the cloud under Satya Nadella (please do mention Azure). The scale is extraordinary.

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Tray.io’s VP of Marketing Alex Ortiz on embracing the era of automation

Intercom, Inc.

This is the final episode of season two of Scale, our series exploring the minds of brilliant leaders and thinkers from the likes of Google, Yelp, and Udemy: folks who have each successfully propelled their company to a new stage of growth. are all-in on personalization and the massive potential to serve customers more intimately at scale.

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