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

FastSpring

It got us thinking: Why is there no purpose-built operating system for corporate learning and development teams, when their jobs are so strategic to the business, and they’re managing massive budgets, but they can’t track things like ROI?” Stream the full interview below or find it wherever you listen to podcasts.

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Summary of New York Tech Week 2023 (Itaú BBA, BTG, BofA)

SaaSHolic

Three important factors for companies to consider when implementing AI are discussed: organizational structure, management systems, and leadership models, with an emphasis on simplicity and financial optimization in data processes.

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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. But we provide a combination of APIs and software. Payments has been around for thousands of years. Dare I say SaaS. They were self taught developers.

Scale 152
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3 Must-Have CFO Skills: Operating Finance, Strategy and Communications

OPEXEngine

Corporate finance experience is declining, while investment banking is rising, as a path to the CFO seat, CFO Dive data shows. ” Many leadership paths. The newer path to CFO is through investment banking. From there he took leadership roles at a number of high-profile Internet companies, including ZipRealty and Yelp.

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

SaaStr

Prior to Kustomer, Vikas spent over 20 years implementing, consulting, marketing, and selling CRM and ContactCenter solutions with companies like LivePerson and Oracle. Eyal and Megan host a fireside chat between Google Cloud and Zenoss, a leader in software-defined IT operations. Missed the session? The emergence of new A.I.

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SaaS in Africa: 10 Things We Learned From Scaling to 1M Users (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

For example, banking. Most African markets never had a banking infrastructure the like of which we used to here. More than half of Kenya’s GDP is now transacted through a mobile, through arguably the most successful mobile banking and payment system called M-Pesa. Banks use this, and Giraffe uses this.”

Scale 163
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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. But we provide a combination of APIs and software. Payments has been around for thousands of years. We abstracted the way a lot of the complexity of payments.

Scale 117