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Mastering Partner Marketing: What NOT to Do and How to Excel with Drata CMO Sydney Sloan

SaaStr

AWS can’t support 20 partners equally. When partnering with big folks like Drata does with AWS, you have to bring business to them. Drata was one of three companies mentioned on stage by AWS’ Head of Partnerships because they did the most transactions on the marketplace than any other company. That’s a high value for AWS.

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How Shopify Implements AI Across Sales and Product with Mike Tamir, Head of AI at Shopify, and Rudina Seseri, Managing Partner at Glasswing Ventures

SaaStr

Historically, Cloud platforms like AWS and Azure help with the sporadic needs of renting a GPU for a few hours for training vs. long-term use, which would cost thousands of dollars. If someone doesn’t want to switch from AWS because AWS has partnerships with OpenAI, they have tradeoffs.

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The Top 10 Events in SaaS. According to ChatGPT.

SaaStr

AWS re:Invent : AWS re:Invent is Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) annual conference, focused on cloud computing and SaaS-related services. The event brings together developers, architects, and IT professionals to explore the latest AWS developments.

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The 9 best tools for your early-stage startup tech stack

Intercom, Inc.

Can we easily onboard new employees or teams as our numbers grow? How much training will this tool require for onboarding and maintenance? AWS – Cloud computing. Many of the biggest and best companies in the world use AWS – and many of them were once startups using AWS, too. Questions to ask. Apply now.

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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. Today, companies spend over $10M/month on AWS — companies like Lyft, Pinterest, and Stripe.

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What’s New at ZoomInfo with CEO Henry Schuck

SaaStr

For example, Google and AWS are already ZoomInfo customers, but only certain sub-segments within those businesses – not the entire org. It was an administrative nightmare to get someone to sit for an hour, onboard, and get a solid result to personalize an interface for their instance of ZoomInfo. What technologies do they use?

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User Model: What SaaS platform builders need to know to prepare for growth, Part 1

CloudGeometry

Part 1: User Model & Onboarding If you have a business model, you have put together ideas about users. Let’s do that by viewing that next level through the lens of onboarding. Onboarding in SaaS is an end-to-end process. Onboarding operationalizes your user model by expressing it through tenant context.