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The Top 5 Questions Every CEO Wrestles With – Lessons From Host Analytics (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And I would ask that in the coming six months or so, if there is a moment, if something resonates in the presentation and you think, “Gosh, I took that from Dave’s presentation, I applied it in the workplace, and it helped me.” When you’re building your company culture, in my opinion?

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The Art of Ensuring Customer Success During Mergers and Acquisitions

SmartKarrot

Various compensation models can present a related challenge. Every organization has a unique set of cultural norms, values, and preconceptions that guide how employees interact with one another and behave themselves. Choosing what to do with the combined company culture is one of the largest issues of most acquisitions or mergers.

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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? If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin. Who has done this well?

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David Barrett, CEO of Expensify: Good Intentions, Bad Advice: How to Keep Your Board Aligned with Your Vision (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

It’s a brutal, awful slog in the start. I would say, it’s always good to call out just how awful it is to be a founder, to be an entrepreneur, because that is a unique perspective that you bring to the board room that no one else shares. If there is a disagreement, there’s no time like the present to deal with it.

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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

If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin. Justin Bedecarre: Well, that is the presentation for today. Is AWS in the lead? This episode is an excerpt from Jason and Loren’s session at SaaStr Summit: Enterprise. Justin Bedecarre. Aaron Levie.

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How to Build Happier Employees – Lessons From HubSpot’s CTO Dharmesh Shah and Chief People Officer Katie Burke

SaaStr

And I know HubSpot’s a very iconic company, and we’ll learn about the presentation, it changed in flight several times, but I want to hear from Dharmesh and Katie how they focus on culture for real. ” “I hated Katie at that company meeting, it was awful.”