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Avoid Trapdoor Decisions: 5 Lessons Learned from Scaling Stripe (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Speaker video: Stripe is really a set of developer tools for building and operating an online business. I’m an execution person.

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SaaStr Podcast #217: Stripe COO Claire Hughes Johnson on The Trapdoor Decisions to Avoid When Scaling

SaaStr

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Payments has been around for thousands of years. Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide.

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How to Make User Acquisition Practically Free with Lambda School (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Lambda School trains people online to be software engineers. So we saw huge lifts in acquisition when we moved from money that you can get in 12 hours to money that you could get in five minutes in your bank account, and that’s because some people didn’t have 12 hours to wait and stress. Want to see more content like this?

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Cognota’s Ryan Austin on Creating an Entire Category (LearnOps)

FastSpring

Like, you’re literally on the floor like crippled with crying just like two years of your hard work, or whatever, you know, you’re like, ah, and then you get a phone call at that exact moment. Ryan Austin 01:34 Sure, no, starting businesses are really tough as everybody knows. How are we going to do that?

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A Decade of Learnings from Y Combinator (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Number three is not understanding their business model. If your payment system works, you’re not going to rip it out. And then the last one is not creating an environment around transparency around money in the bank and KPIs. We had half a million in the bank. If you take the case of Justin.tv

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Kustomer, Google Cloud, and Zenoss — August 8, 2019

SaaStr

Vikas Bhambri: Three weeks later, I hosted a CIO breakfast in London and I had CIOs from some of the biggest banks in London, as well as some of the US banks that had a significant presence, i.e. at JP Morgan in London, and to a person, they said they would never spend another penny in on-premise CRM. So what do I know right?

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Sales Hacker Recommends: 97 Best Sales Books for Peak Performance (2020 Update)

Sales Hacker

Wooden on Leadership. If you truly want to be a better leader, better salesperson , better speaker, better writer, or just a better person, you need to study the craft. Our bank account takes a hit. Steal Like an Artist. The Decision Book. Innovating for People. Thinkertoys. Money: Master the Game. The Sketchnote Handbook.

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