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The Future of AI, Open Source, and Enterprise SaaS: Where It’s All Going with Databricks’ CEO, Ali Ghodsi (Podcast #505 and Video)

SaaStr

For us, the SaaS model Amazon Web Services (AWS) offered was an amazing one to look at. Multiple successful exits and valuations of Open Source companies like Confluent, HashiCorp, and Databricks show strong business models can and do exist, and SaaS-based models help more COSS companies succeed in the Cloud.

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Salesforce’s Mike Kreaden on how to build a platform to drive growth

Intercom, Inc.

And I remember Marc [Benioff] interviewing me, like he did every employee, and painting the vision for what the platform would be. It’s less expensive than it’s ever been in terms of actually getting a product to market, whether it’s leveraging platforms like Salesforce or GCP or AWS or Heroku.

Scale 151
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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Domo and Gorgias — April 24, 2020

SaaStr

Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with John. John Mellor: But then probably the biggest transition was watching Adobe transition into the subscription business model with its Creative Cloud product as it’s known today. Harry Stebbings. John Mellor. Romain Lapeyre. And the stock popped.

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How SaaS is Like Monty Python and 6 Other Things I Learned at SaaStock 2019

Chart Mogul

This is already at play — services like AWS, Stripe, and others have brought down the cost of starting and running a business to a fraction of what they used to be just a decade ago. Consumerizing even more parts of the activities of a typical business (logistics-as-a-service, etc.) doubling the number of leads).

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How SaaS is Like Monty Python and 6 Other Things I Learned at SaaStock 2019

Chart Mogul

This is already at play — services like AWS, Stripe, and others have brought down the cost of starting and running a business to a fraction of what they used to be just a decade ago. Consumerizing even more parts of the activities of a typical business (logistics-as-a-service, etc.) doubling the number of leads).

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G2.com’s Ryan Bonnici on selling to educated customers

Intercom, Inc.

I caught up with Ryan for a conversation that ranged from how to articulate your value to educated customers to why he tries to schedule one job interview per day. Ryan is constantly interviewing candidates , because if there’s someone out there who’s better than the current team he’s assembled, he wants them on that team.

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The Sendgrid Journey: Scaling From Growth Stage to $2B Acquisition in 4 Years (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Well, you guys have probably all read Sameer’s bio and his resume and heard about the SendGrid Twilio journey, but I think the reason why I wanted to do this interview with him is because there’s some things that people don’t know about Sameer, which I think are interesting to note. Anna Khan: Awesome. I love Jeff.

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