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Scaling Early-Stage to Hyper-Growth Companies With Ed Lenta, SVP and GM of Databricks (Pod 644 + Video)

SaaStr

Ed Lenta, the SVP and GM of Databricks, had the rare opportunity of scaling three hypergrowth companies — VMware, AWS, and Databricks. You know they’ll demand your products, so it’s time to show up with the right leadership, support, services, training, and whatever else you decide you’ll need for your business. This is important.

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Strategic Finance in Today’s Market: A Tactical Guide to Building & Scaling Your Team with IVP

SaaStr

Business Development Identify and assess partnership opportunities to drive growth Business Intelligence Turn data into insights to inform decision-making. In 2014, storage had historically been Dropbox’s most significant cost driver, with hundreds of millions of dollars spent on AWS.

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Ensuring Intercom’s business continuity during uncertain times

Intercom, Inc.

Our leadership team is fully engaged in the active management of our response during this challenging period. All of Intercom’s production infrastructure is provided as a service to Intercom by Amazon Web Services (AWS). Infrastructure services reliability.

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Snowflake, CrowdStike and SumoLogic: “How to Leverage the Cloud Giants to Scale to 100 Million ARR and Beyond”

SaaStr

And it’s one of the three large cloud vendors that we all know: Microsoft, AWS, and Google. AWS’s marketplace has seen 1.5 But also it’s allowed us to get much closer to our provider, I mean, we host and run 100% on AWS, but pull data from everywhere. It was pretty easy to drive that from our side.

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PODCAST 47: Key Qualities of great Sales Leadership w/ Dan Fougere

Sales Hacker

Dan talks about the key qualities of great sales leadership and how to be an effective executive in addition to being a great sales leader. Dan also discusses his deep background in enterprise sales and how closing $10M+ deals has informed his approach to forecasting. Building a Repeatable Leadership System [19:04].

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

SaaStr

They had open cores and created enterprise features around it to protect the business model until it got torpedoed by AWS early on. If you have a well-tended community, you can have an asymmetric information advantage, plus a lot of participation from the community doing bug fixes, adding new features and integrations, and support.

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

SaaStr

” “I hated Katie at that company meeting, it was awful.” We’ll never become the company with someone hanging over your shoulder,” invest the time to tell people why your vision is the opposite, and invest the time to create values that actually inform people’s decisions. It’s really tough.