AWS Leadership Pricing Underperforming Technical Team 
SaaStr
SEPTEMBER 12, 2019
They told us they would do tons of all this pricing stuff and help us with hiring and introduce us to customers, and all of these things. Your sales team becomes more efficient, your customer success team becomes efficient, your customers like you more. I have a team of people who work on numbers. But it worked.
SaaStr
JANUARY 28, 2020
And I remember being at that Dreamforce in 2009, which was awful. If something bad happens, you’re going to have to cut your burn, probably. There is one thing, I love this quote and it’s a little bit of a crude quote, not that it’s bad language-. What do you do with that lightly toxic person on your team?
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SaaStr
OCTOBER 31, 2019
Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. Retail was mentioned twice, that’s it, and AWS was mentioned 78 times, so it’s probably not surprising that they’re doing this. I think it’s a really staggering stat.
SaaStr
MAY 15, 2020
Finally, before YesWare, she was VP of Sales @ Engine Yard, where she tripled monthly recurring revenue, over the course of her 3+ year tenure, in 3 key leadership roles. Where do most teams go wrong in implementing the role out of their CS strategy? Does Bridget believe CS teams should be involved in the upsell process?
Sales Hacker
OCTOBER 7, 2021
Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. That company only lasted another year before they were out of business, so it was a poor use of my energy, time, and being away from my family – a lesson I work to pass on to others new in roles today. Invest in your development internally and externally. Joyce Johnson.
SaaStr
JUNE 15, 2021
We’ve done a ton of terrific sessions with the Twilio leadership over the years, including 4 different deep dives with Jeff Lawson, CEO and co-founder. How sales worked, how pricing worked, how billboards work, and more. He said, “I feel so bad. Jeff : I felt really bad, because you plan way ahead.
SaaStr
OCTOBER 17, 2019
When it comes to seamlessly scaling your applications, a top-notch engineering team will be your foundation. We develop a search API to help any developer to have a very good search in their application. So today we are a distributed team. Of course, behind this product, we have a super strong team.
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