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The Latest in VC Funding + Scaling SaaS: An AMA with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin (Pod 581)

SaaStr

Jason recently opened up an AMA on Twitter Spaces to answer questions about scaling and VC funding. While Azure and Google Cloud grew at record rates, Shopify for example, its SaaS business only grew 10% last quarter. We need this money to get sales and marketing going. Jason Lemkin: Today certainly is an interesting week.

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Starting Up In A Downturn with Cloudflare COO and Co-Founder Michelle Zatelyn (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

So huge scale, we stop about 15 billion cyberattacks daily on behalf of those 26 million internet properties. And I think part of it is because it was the job prospects were kind of gloomy. I mean them an Azure, like they’ve just had tremendous success, but 10 years ago that wasn’t a given. Michelle: Yeah.

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PODCAST 78: What this Google Exec Wants You to Know About Success w/ Alison Wagonfeld of Google Cloud

Sales Hacker

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we talk to Alison Wagonfeld, CMO of Google Cloud. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Welcome to The Sales Hacker Podcast. Previously, she was an operating partner at Emergence Capital, a leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm that we all probably know about.

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Leadership Tips, Team Culture, Choosing First Investor, and more – Mattermark Daily

Mattermark

Natasha Azur of Osage Partners takes a look at trends in venture capital activity ( which we’ve also been digging into lately on the Mattermark blog ) in “ What’s the Pulse on 2017 Midyear VC Investment? Yelena Shkolnik was promoted to Vice President at Jump Capital. From the News.