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Calm’s Will Larson on how to build a technical leadership career

Intercom, Inc.

For those who don’t know him, Will has over 10 years of experience in the likes of Yahoo, Digg, Uber, and Stripe, and he’s currently the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app that helps millions of people to lower their stress levels and sleep better. Solvers tend to be reactive to what leadership is really worried about. How do we fix it?”

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The decade software ate the world

Intercom, Inc.

Putting narrative order on the past decade, a 10-year-period that has somehow remained stubbornly nameless, is quite the challenge, but it’s impossible to make sense of the 2010s without understanding the role of software. To give some perspective, there were about 300 million smartphones sold in 2010.

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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 So the ability to do flexible payment plans, financing, retire that pre-committed spend has been a really significant a way for us to accelerate and amplify our transactions.

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Need an Expert for Your Next Panel, Presentation, or Podcast? Here Are Over 530 of the Top Female Sales Practitioners

Sales Hacker

Leadership. Leadership. VP Nokia Software, North America Sales. People First Productivity Solutions. Team Lead, North America – Global Marketing Solutions. Director, Sales Solutions, North America. The Exceptional Leadership Institute for Women. Manager, LinkedIn Sales Solutions.

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What’s New At WorkOS and What It Takes To Be “Enterprise-Ready” in SaaS with WorkOS CEO and Founder Michael Grinich

SaaStr

Smaller companies have become more sophisticated in the tools they use, the IT systems, and automation for onboarding and offboarding, and all of that has resulted in needing to plug stuff into the tools you’re using quickly. If you want payments, sign up for Stripe. Which is why it’s almost a misnomer to call them Enterprise features.

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Nov 18 – Customer Success Jobs

SmartKarrot

Collaborate as part of the global customer success leadership team to align and solve bottlenecks in a scalable way. Effectively solve ad-hoc customer issues as needed, interacting with Customer Support, escalating customer issues as needed, and identifying solutions/resources. Ensure Smartly.io

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Former Moveworks CIO and Lucidchart Co-Founder/CEO — December 13, 2019

SaaStr

And I think the reason for that is, is that because of the interconnectedness of systems and architecture, there has been a big role of enterprise architecture across the company. And the reason is because even if you’re a small company, what’s happening is you just have a ton of systems in place. What do you think?”