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In the Vault: Placing Multiple Bets on a ‘Mosaic of Solutions’ With Former Global Payments CEO Jeff Sloan

Andreessen Horowitz

Angela: One of the interesting things we notice about CEOs that are able to scale really quickly is that they often sit at the intersection of a few different worlds and are able to bring these trends together. I think we were doing something like $3 billion of revenue a year in software sales. We have to know what customers want.

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AI Food Fights in the Enterprise

Andreessen Horowitz

From a strategy standpoint, let’s say you had a big dataset like a healthcare dataset, some kind of security dataset, or Nielsen’s dataset. The Mosaic guys just figured out how to do that at scale for others. Ali: There’s a scaling law. It will be like AWS, GCP, and Azure. It will just work, trust me.”

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A Look Back: “SaaS Metrics Masterclass: Key Business Metrics, Pricing Strategies and Billing Models with Stripe’s Head of France and Southern Europe, Guillaume Princen” (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Customer acquisition is basically how much do you spend in terms of sales people, sales team, and in terms of marketing to acquire a new customer. The key here is knowing what your sales model is. And there are basically two sales models out there. Kind of extreme sales models out there for SaaS businesses.

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

Sales Hacker

Women in sales often have a polarizing experience. In the Sales Hacker video series Aha Moments , I asked 10 women: “What is one ‘aha moment’ you’ve had in your sales career?”. The conversations that followed were so authentic and encouraging that we decided to expand this conversation to other badass women in the sales world.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Tidelift and Cloudflare

SaaStr

333: Bridget Gleason is the Head of Sales and Customer Success @ Tidelift, the company providing managed open source, backed by maintainers. Before Tidelift, Bridget was VP of Sales @ Logz.io and before that was VP of Corporate Sales @ Sumo Logic where she drove ARR up by a record 237%.

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Leveraging AI in SaaS: Current Trends and Future Directions

How To Buy Saas

Platforms like Amazon Web Services (AWS), launched in 2006, offered scalable infrastructure that could handle growth without performance issues, revolutionizing IT operations. This leads us to explore new trends that artificial intelligence has brought to the table. The adoption of cloud-based software. Mobile-friendly design.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Byron Deeter, Elliott Robinson, Henry Schuck, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

This here is an example from a Burmese restaurant called Thamee, in DC, which has partnered with World Central Kitchen, and they’re donating thousands and thousands of meals to people in need, healthcare staff, and frontline workers, Black Lives Matter protesters in the community. They had to reinvent themselves. It is staggering.