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

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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. In this talk, Claire will share these and other lessons for scaling high-growth organizations. I’m an execution person. Manual processes first.

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

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Join Anish Shivdasani, CEO of Giraffe, as he provides unique African experiences learned from scaling to 1M users. I’m probably the most hated person in the room right now, but please indulge me. For example, banking. Most African markets never had a banking infrastructure the like of which we used to here.

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

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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. Here’s what Claire talks about: How to avoid trapdoor decisions when scaling. Lessons for scaling high-growth organizations. Missed the session?

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How to to Build a Worst-Case Scenario Using a SaaS Financial Model

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Adjust your revenue forecast Base-Case scenario Worst-Case scenario Review bank balance before expense adjustments 4. Other things to consider Loans Payment terms Annual plans 7. Review bank balance before expense adjustments After these changes, it’s useful to look at your cash forecast. As they should be.

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Lessons From a Second-Time Founder: How Brex Went From 0 – $1B in Under 2 Years (Video + Transcript)

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” The whole point of building a corporation, is not having personal liability attached to it. So, there’s all these people who are just using debit cards, and just walking around with debit cards with 120 000 in the bank, or just using their personal card for all these things. We know a lot about payments.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Matt Garratt, Trisha Price, David Schmaier, Rob Bernshteyn, and Jason Lemkin

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We’ve invested in over 300 companies at Salesforce Ventures and have partnered with both of you closely and it’s been amazing to see this story up close and personal over the years. These companies can scale really efficiently. They need fewer sales as a percentage of overall employees. Matt Garratt: Thank you.

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Going Global: Key Considerations to Drive SaaS Success Abroad

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But scaling your business in the right place is critical. Where will it make sense to invest the time, effort, and money to set up a local entity and scale it? Do you need to expand overseas to ensure your competitiveness or leadership position as a company in your respective market? Payment Processing and Currency Management.