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

SaaStr

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. Speaker video: Stripe is really a set of developer tools for building and operating an online business. The exchange of value.

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

SaaStr

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. And at the risk of giving you a full Stripe sales pitch, don’t worry, that’s in my other talk. The exchange of value.

Scale 120
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From Slooooow Growth to Hypergrowth with Collibra and Insight Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And in that sense the financial crisis actually was a good thing for us because that was really kind of our beachhead in the market, because suddenly all of the large banks needed to comply to a lot of new regulation, seek RC, BCBS, all of those things, which ultimately are all data regulations. We opened a small sales office in Wework.

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

FastSpring

So essentially building the first operating system for corporate learning and development teams in bringing thought leadership community best practices around the LearnOps category. Ryan Austin 01:34 Sure, no, starting businesses are really tough as everybody knows. And I just started a consulting business, it was a service business.

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Strategic Finance in Today’s Market: A Tactical Guide to Building & Scaling Your Team with IVP

SaaStr

Strategic finance can be thought of as a project management function for your company’s underlying business model or a BizOps team that operates within a more financial lens. Strategic Finance optimizes a company’s underlying business model to create long-term value by increasing revenue and decreasing costs.

Scale 194
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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week: May 24, 2019

SaaStr

Why SaaS is your business model, not your mission. I was personally responsible for my action, to any concurrent projects on the delivery side, I was responsible for managing digital marketing, recruiting. And we actually measured the output and we did the full economics model. Missed the session? Andrew Filev.

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

SaaStr

Number three is not understanding their business model. 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. Who’s going to lead sales? Who’s going to be responsible for recruiting?