Chart Mogul

MARCH 2, 2021

It might be awful. If this is the end of the road for you — for example, you’re retiring early to spend time with friends and family, to travel, and so on — purpose will arise naturally from doing the things you love, things you might’ve had little time for before. Expect changes and shifting priorities. It might be awesome.

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Startup Acquisition SaaS Scale 52

Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

” —Deputy CISO, AWS “In my career, the deployment of the CrowdStrike Falcon platform was perhaps the easiest global security rollout I’ve seen.” As their core product improved over time, network effects kicked in, and Airbnb expanded their TAM to include higher-end travel, international travel, and business travel.

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Travel Forecasting Pricing Scale 100

Clouded Judgement

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

If you want features in your lakehouse (on top of open source Iceberg) for ingestion, CDC, streaming (file loading, Kafka connect, etc), schema evolution, compaction, optimization, time travel, snapshots, auto-scaling, maintenance (no more writing spark jobs to delete snapshots!), A natural question is “why do we have two tiers?

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Data Government Scale GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 130

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2020

Amazon Web Services (AWS). Flight Centre Travel Group. Post-Acute Sales Representative. Medline Industries, Inc. Senior Strategic Account Executive. Jellyvision. Kate Vango. Enterprise ENGR Business Development. Rita Jusztina Varga. HERA by Hotel ResBot. Natalie Vicas. Account Executive. Nessa Voigt. Head of Global Sales Enablement.

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VP of Engineering Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Payment Services 121

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 13, 2018

I saw we had the opportunity to do that in London and to do something that will be new for Facebook, in the same way that AWS was a new business model and product line for Amazon and a bet that paid off very well. It’s about turning companies into communities.

Scale 151

Scale Marketplace as a Service Mobile Sales Hiring 151

SaaStr

JULY 20, 2021

It’s a brutal, awful slog in the start. I would say, it’s always good to call out just how awful it is to be a founder, to be an entrepreneur, because that is a unique perspective that you bring to the board room that no one else shares. What we do is we’re a service for business travelers. Is that about the…?

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Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring AWS Business Model 243

SaaStr

JULY 1, 2020

Travel is a challenging part of the industry today. On one end of the spectrum, you’ve got folks that are in the work-from-home productivity space, and then on the other end of the spectrum, you’ve got folks in the travel space, and then, there’s everything in between. We can save companies $100,000 on their AWS bill.

Merchant Services 174

Merchant Services Scale Sales Recruiting Sales 174

FastSpring

DECEMBER 21, 2020

But I do enjoy running an awful lot. I would travel around the world flying kites at festivals. I try and get out and run multiple times a week. Oh, and I have a 5lb Chihuahua that I really love; she’s kind of a hobby. Since she is so small, the hobby is don’t step on the dog.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Development Team Review Software Review AWS 78

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 1, 2019

But although it’s inspiring to look at the paths other companies have successfully traveled, you also run the risk of ending up at the exact same destination. That’s why Brex’s CFO Michael Tannenbaum believes in breaking a few rules. It’s great for Brex, because we’re able to pass on a discount to our customers.

Strategy 36

Strategy Payment Methods Payment Services Startup 36

All that Saas

DECEMBER 24, 2021

This way your road travel expense is not only tracked also maintained and can be budgeted for future expenses. The approval settings can be activated to allow trip requests with all travel plans and employment information before the trips take place. For on-road traveling, several mileage rates can be created based on vehicle types.

Software Review 52

Software Review Systems Review Technical Review Merchant Services 52

Casey Accidental

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Lastly, Pinterest grew adjacencies by making the product work better with interests in different local geos and in different categories e.g. travel vs. fashion. Snap had similar geographic growth, but had some additional format and product adjacencies. Okay, so let’s look at how Pinterest and Snapchat grew their product offering over time.

Payments 112

Payments Scale Payment Solutions Technical Review 112

Baremetrics

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

There, you could separate Sales to Account Executives, SDRs, Sales Travel and other strictly sales related activities, while Marketing would contain advertising, promotions, conferences and so forth. For example, Amazon Web Services or AWS in the bank description is very likely to go to Cost of Revenue under Hosting. Engineering.

Startup 81

Startup DevOps as a Service Customer Lifetime Value SaaS 81

SaaStr

JUNE 25, 2019

Now, I have some background with luck because in between some long stints with other companies, seven years at Eventbrite and 15 years at Ticketmaster before, I spent five years of my life playing poker for a living and learned an awful lot about luck and positive outcomes as well. The advantages of what we have, they’re numerous.

Engineering 136

Engineering Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Scale 136

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 25, 2019

Did I really just spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on hotels, food, and travel for nothing? As a general rule, we humans are pretty awful at retaining information. Fortunately, you are already equipped with the tools to ensure this doesn’t happen to you or your organization. Our downfall is in our memory.

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Sales Hiring Sales AWS Leadership 63

SaaStr

JUNE 19, 2020

Why is travel changing? I didn’t say their technology is terrible, the audio is awful. If a VC has never done an investment even remotely similar, they probably won’t again, but summarize the industry in two sentences. Why is the content marketing industry changing? Why is application performance management changing?

Software Review 163

Software Review Technical Review Sales Hiring Investment 163

Frontegg

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The Zero Trust security paradigm, adopted by the US government and security giants like Google, Microsoft, and AWS, has secure authentication at its core. One downside of this approach is that it slows down processing requests, because each request needs to travel to the authentication service and back.

Strategy 98

Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Application Development Mobile 98

SaaStr

MAY 22, 2020

I do have to ask, though, when we do Q and As, as well, the awful moment is when you say, “Does anyone have a question from the audience?” So people who may have not been able to travel, or afford a ticket, they can all come together in a virtual event in a way they couldn’t in person.

Technical Advisors 207

Technical Advisors Engagement Startup Benchmarks 207

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

You will have the opportunity to travel to amazing places, that you probably, otherwise, would have never chosen to go to. If you are successful in sales, you will have the flexibility to pursue other passions (family, travel, hobbies, etc.), All while constantly traveling the world.

Scale 130

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 130

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

If you think about how you get to engagement, man, it sucks if you’ve got to do 25 one-hour meetings with, in pre-COVID days, the travel time and the laptop set up time. The first is: It’s the best proxy for AWS growth in the private markets. crosstalk 00:27:38] engagement. Jason Lemkin: That’s a fair insight.

Sales Recruiting 163

Sales Recruiting Development Team Review Technical Review Sales Hiring 163

SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

They think about the hours in the office, and they think about the business travel. So, that will mean more distributed work, more video calls, less business travel, more hopping on just a quick sync with a partner as opposed to saying, “Hey, can I fly to you next week?” Is AWS in the lead? Is the Google in the lead?”

Sales Recruiting 146

Sales Recruiting Cloud CTO Hire Scale 146

SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Amazon Web Services (AWS). Amazon, the global marketplace, also offers several other services, one of which is Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS offers cloud services to businesses. Many companies across industries use adobe tools and services, including marketing, printing, publishing, and digital media. Founded in: 1982.

Marketplace as a Service 10

Marketplace as a Service SaaS AWS Cybersecurity 10

OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2019

That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). Salesforce, which turned 20 in March, surpassed $13 billion in annual revenue this year. Everywhere you look there are dominant SaaS companies with thriving products.

Scale 70

Scale Startup Technical Review Software Review 70

OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2019

That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). Salesforce, which turned 20 in March, surpassed $13 billion in annual revenue this year. Everywhere you look there are dominant SaaS companies with thriving products.

Scale 51

Scale Startup Technical Review Software Review 51

OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2019

That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). Salesforce, which turned 20 in March, surpassed $13 billion in annual revenue this year. Everywhere you look there are dominant SaaS companies with thriving products.

Scale 40

Scale Startup Technical Review Software Review 40

OpenView Labs

JUNE 4, 2019

They were cheap, small, and portable … but the sound quality was awful. Previously, travelers had to go through centralized companies like hotel chains to book an overnight stay. Homeowners gained access to a market of travelers they never could have dreamed of pre-Web 2.0. Then, Sony’s transistor radios arrived on the scene.

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Innovation Technical Review Travel Business Model 71

SaaStr

JULY 10, 2020

We know about Zoom and we know about Slack and we even know about AWS, but look at these other categories. These could be great companies, iconic companies, but if you’re in travel, if you’re in events, if you’re in similar areas, it will be years until things are normal. E-commerce is on fire. Look at Shopify.

Scale 183

Scale Sales Hiring Pricing Sales Recruiting 183