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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Byron Deeter, Elliott Robinson, Henry Schuck, and Jason Lemkin

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But it is really incredible and inspiring to see how these companies and these cloud leaders have ushered in this new phase of innovation and growth, even in the hardest moments of society. Azure has been gaining on them rapidly and is growing a double that rate. We’ve all seen AWS and what they’ve done with their platform.

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The Answers to Scaling, Hiring, and Everything Else: A SaaStr Europa AMA with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin (Pod 585 + Video)

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I think Azure’s like 7,000, Google. Salesforce was a very rudimentary SMB app for a brief period of time, but it was. Shall we innovate more in marketing or in products, kind of unique features? There’s always room for innovators, even if they’re niche solutions. I think hiring is harder than ever.