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Successes and Setbacks on the Road to $1B with Alessio Artuffo, President and COO at Docebo

SaaStr

Customers range from AWS skills-builder platforms with billions of users to Zoom using it for customers and employees. They started via SMB and are now serving the Amazons of the world. The more SMB you are, the faster the sales cycle and the quicker the team learns. Leadership injections as you scale are tricky.

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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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State of the Cloud 2019: Europa Edition with Alex Ferrara, Bessemer Venture Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

It was around that time about 12 years ago that Jeff Bezos launched AWS, and some of you may remember that, when he did this, Wall Street analysts were looking at him and saying, “Why would you take what’s already a very unprofitable business and drive it further into the red by investing in this AWS initiative?”

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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. Senior Vice President, Sales SMB. The Exceptional Leadership Institute for Women. Sales Manager, SMB New Business Acquisition. VP, SMB Essentials Sales. Amazon Web Services (AWS). Head of Sales – SMB New Business Acquisition. Sales Development. Sales Growth.

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5 Effective Things We Did to Move Upmarket and Built Pipeline with Mapistry (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Unlike when selling into SMB businesses that kind of can go from a demo, to a conversion, to a close in a matter of days, enterprise sales is a lot more complicated and it’s hard to navigate through. So as Lauren sort of alluded to, we started by focusing on SMB’s. It’s not going to work.

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The SaaS Trust Crisis with Godard Abel (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And then I spent a year at Salesforce working on Marc Benioff’s extended leadership team, and really had a chance to learn how important trust can be, and also really learn from Salesforce, from Mark, how do you really build a global SaaS leader at scale? It’s most severe in the SMB world.

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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. You will be responsible for Drive and accelerate spend adoption by advising customers on best practices for using SoftwareONE or Microsoft/AWS solutions. Ensure Smartly.io Apply here: [link].