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Scaling Early-Stage to Hyper-Growth Companies With Ed Lenta, SVP and GM of Databricks (Pod 644 + Video)

SaaStr

Ed Lenta, the SVP and GM of Databricks, had the rare opportunity of scaling three hypergrowth companies — VMware, AWS, and Databricks. You know they’ll demand your products, so it’s time to show up with the right leadership, support, services, training, and whatever else you decide you’ll need for your business.

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Strategic Finance in Today’s Market: A Tactical Guide to Building & Scaling Your Team with IVP

SaaStr

In 2014, storage had historically been Dropbox’s most significant cost driver, with hundreds of millions of dollars spent on AWS. Some critical skills will include analytical and problem-solving skills, data literacy, excellent communication skills, and a deep understanding of business models.

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Successes and Setbacks on the Road to $1B with Alessio Artuffo, President and COO at Docebo

SaaStr

Customers range from AWS skills-builder platforms with billions of users to Zoom using it for customers and employees. It’s essential that messaging doesn’t get confused when communicating with these different use cases. Leadership injections as you scale are tricky. They’re also growing fast and are nicely profitable.

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PODCAST 47: Key Qualities of great Sales Leadership w/ Dan Fougere

Sales Hacker

Dan talks about the key qualities of great sales leadership and how to be an effective executive in addition to being a great sales leader. Building a Repeatable Leadership System [19:04]. Dan’s got over 20 years of sales experience, and specifically has insights on sales and leadership. We’re on iTunes. And on Stitcher.

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Data Democratization: Definition, Benefits, Implementation & Best Practices

User Pilot

This increases collaboration across the organization and fosters communication with non-technical stakeholders. Enhanced collaboration between departments Data democratization improves communication and collaboration between teams within the organization. This increases their productivity and efficiency.

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Twilio: The First $100m+ ARR with Jeff Lawson, CEO/Co Founder (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

We’ve done a ton of terrific sessions with the Twilio leadership over the years, including 4 different deep dives with Jeff Lawson, CEO and co-founder. Twilio is a cloud communications platform that allows software developers to embed communications into the apps that they’re building. I know how to do that.

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3 Customer Retention Strategies for the Pandemic’s Next Wave

ChurnZero

You and I both know how awful it feels to have someone disregard what we say and focus on their end goal instead. After the results were analyzed, company founder, Timothy Murenzi, sent a communication to all customers informing them that updating the knowledge base was now a top priority.