Hitenism

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

In 2006, after Amazon Web Services (AWS) helped pioneer what we now call the cloud, product development changed forever. Today, one-third of daily internet users visit websites built on top of AWS. AWS is now an $11.5B Today this mentality is hardwired into the company. That’s the winning strategy!

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 19, 2018

Yet competition and the exponential rate of change in software are pushing against that mission. Enter our philosophy of Run Less Software. Rich Archbold , Senior Director of Engineering, has been at the forefront of codifying and scaling this philosophy over the past few years. What it means to Run Less Software.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

And I remember being at that Dreamforce in 2009, which was awful. In bigger companies, we were budgeted. And some folks would come back and say, “I want to renegotiate because the world has ended,” but enterprise software is budgeted. So on a scale of one to 10, what type of feedback do you want?

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SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

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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SaaStr

MAY 23, 2019

So that’s the one scale is saying, “Big distraction, we can’t do this every year. Well, let me tell you, build software is really hard. When you’re building your company culture, in my opinion? Say three to six months? There’s a distraction factor on the CEO with all that time gone.

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SaaStr

JULY 20, 2021

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. That sounds like an awful idea,” and then you have to work for it.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

Justin Bedecarre: And then another client of ours is an international company that has decided that they truly want to scale up in San Francisco. We’re going to learn so much about ourselves, about how we should and can run our companies, how we run our day-to-day lives. Jen Nguyen: Yeah.

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