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Scaling to $5B with Cockroach Labs’ CEO Spencer Kimball’s Formula for Sustained Growth and Resilience

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Whether you’re going from nothing to something or already scaling and thriving beyond $10-100M, healthy, sustainable growth in SaaS is on every founder’s mind. How much does culture matter in SaaS, and how do you build one that pays dividends? How Much Does Culture Matter, And How Do You Build One That Pays Dividends?

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Tidelift and Cloudflare

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In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Bridget made her way into the world of SaaS and Sales and came to be Head of both Sales and Customer Success at Tidelift. * 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?

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

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Dharmesh Shah : So, a quick confession before I start, which is like I love SaaS, I love it. We could talk about CAK and LTV, and economics, and fundraising, and entrepreneurship, and SaaS and engineering, and product management, but instead I chose to talk about culture and people, which is a little bit of an odd topic for a CTO to pick up.

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

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And then, we ripped it out and Aaron went and talked to some of the top SaaS companies from today and added the case studies. Maria is one of the top SaaS leaders in marketing, just finished up the CMO Vanna plan, which IPOed. This is the best of times in SaaS, right? We wrote a book together. Aaron : Yeah. Maria : Yeah.

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

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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?” There were all these software companies and then the advent of all these SaaS application companies like Salesforce and Workday that were breakout successes.

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

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Join him as he takes you through lessons learned from Host Analytics on the top questions every SaaS CEO wrestles with. Or the five questions that really never get put to bed in growing a SaaS start up. So I am or have been an independent board member on four companies. Want to see more content like this? FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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

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Aaron Levie: Yeah, well, I think first of all, the one dynamic is that I think for probably anybody who would be paying attention to the SaaS universe and joining us today, probably actually less has changed about our daily lives than the vast majority of the world. We are one of the larger SaaS providers that leverages public cloud.