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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.”

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

SaaStr

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Vikas made his way into the world of SaaS and came to be at the rocketship that is Kustomer. * Why does Vikas believe that a wave of SaaS incumbents are about to be displaced or disrupted? Why is it so crucial to invest in enablement in the early days? What is a good payback period? *

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

FastSpring

Stream the full interview below or find it wherever you listen to podcasts. On this podcast, we share stories from global SaaS leaders like Ryan, that you can use to inspire new growth strategies in your own business. And I just started a consulting business, it was a service business. Ryan Austin 01:00 Sure.

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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. Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide. Manual processes first. Dare I say SaaS.

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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. Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide. Dare I say SaaS. The exchange of value.

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

SaaStr

If we really look at a lot of YC companies now a days, we have a ton of B to B companies, and the most common mistake they make is they don’t really understand if they can afford the process they need to do to acquire customers. If your payment system works, you’re not going to rip it out. We had half a million in the bank.