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Intercom’s Rich Archbold on how to run less software

Intercom, Inc.

I started at Amazon before they had Amazon Web Services (AWS) so I was lucky enough to see AWS born out of the guts of all of the great operations work done for the amazon.com retail website. You can think of them beginning from very base infrastructural technologies, and in our case we’re betting exclusively on AWS as a cloud vendor.

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Q&A with Maria Pergolino, Anthony Kennada, Aaron Ross and Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And I remember being at that Dreamforce in 2009, which was awful. Jason : Still, I think if you can develop it, it’s a superpower. AUDIENCE QUESTION 2 : It’s a question on sales development. How do you guys see, say, outbound sales develop and evolve five years from now, pure call outbound sales?

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Tidelift and Cloudflare

SaaStr

Why does Bridget believe the best starting point for customer success is “company culture and value”? How does company culture impact the quality of customer success? Maybe, is it better to take it turn by turn, and how does company culture play into the level and quality of customer success? .

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Engineering Your Own “Luck”: The 3 Key Rules of Building Globally Distributed Teams with Eventbrite (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Building a company made up of distributed teams presents a plethora of complex challenges that can derail productivity and impact employee retention. But with it comes immense benefits and competitive advantages such as the diversification of ideas, speedier product development, and representation in important regions and time zones.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Justin Bedecarre, Jen Nguyen, Jason Lemkin, and Aaron Levie

SaaStr

It’s your place of meeting friends and you don’t want to be kind of holed up in your apartment working all day, then I think an office environment can actually be incredibly important to a company culture and company execution. Is AWS in the lead? ” He says, “Don’t even do contracts.”

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Starting Up In A Downturn with Cloudflare COO and Co-Founder Michelle Zatelyn (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And I remember like AWS was growing really quickly. And at the time there was a big debate of, “Will big companies ever really use AWS?” And I just don’t believe you can outsource it. So that’s a little bit about getting great people to come into your company.

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

SaaStr

Liat Bycel: Yeah, I think that career development conversation should be an ongoing conversation. It’s really important to dig in there so it’s not just, well I want to be the CEO of a company one day just because that’s something that I’ve always said and it’s gotten a good response. crosstalk 00:31:48].