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Facebook Workplace’s Julien Codorniou on turning companies into communities

Intercom, Inc.

I saw we had the opportunity to do that in London and to do something that will be new for Facebook, in the same way that AWS was a new business model and product line for Amazon and a bet that paid off very well. As you can probably see, I’m not a fashionista (laughs), but I love entrepreneurship, and I love media in general.

Scale 151
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Move Over Subscriptions. The Future Is Elastic And Built Around Relationships.

Chargify

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a poster-child for the Relationship Economy—they truly understand the modern B2B customer. AWS powers a majority of the websites and applications that you use in your day-to-day life. AWS also constantly evolves their pricing, with 62 price changes as of July 2017. Change Is Inevitable.

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Best Managed WordPress Hosting

Neil Patel

1 – WP Engine — The Best Overall Managed WordPress Hosting. WP Engine was the first company to offer managed WordPress hosting and they continue to set the bar of excellence for the field. As soon as companies move their sites to WP Engine, they report increased security, speed, and reliability.

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170+ Women in Sales Share Their Career-Defining Aha Moment

Sales Hacker

A Vietnamese immigrant, dedicated mother, and seasoned technology executive, Hang Black has an extensive background in engineering, marketing, sales, and entrepreneurship. She holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and lives in Los Altos, California with her two children.

Scale 130
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How to Build Happier Employees – Lessons From HubSpot’s CTO Dharmesh Shah and Chief People Officer Katie Burke

SaaStr

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. ” “I hated Katie at that company meeting, it was awful.”

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Simple Frameworks For Success (Full Video + Success)

OnStartups

I was an engineer. I was working as an engineer. I think copywriting overall is one of the most underrated skills in entrepreneurship generally. This is how startup entrepreneurship works up here if you're self-funded. I'm an engineer that's a free agent" or whatever. That's how things worked back then.

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How AI could impact the B2B software industry in the next decade

Point Nine Land

If building the infrastructure of a SaaS product seems easy nowadays (with AWS and the myriad of developer APIs available), it was not the case fifteen years ago. Providing a “cloud based” service was really challenging in terms of infrastructure, and the first SaaS startups had to hire large engineering teams dedicated to this aspect only.