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5 Predictions for 2021

Tom Tunguz

Database startups, data movement startups, data quality startups, data lineage startups, machine learning startups will be the zeitgeist of the decade as they shape the next wave of massive innovation. Blockchain technologies become mainstream driven by the adoption of national reserve banks. Distributed work becomes the norm.

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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. 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 159
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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.

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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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The top SaaS companies ruling the East Coast

SaaStock

Thanks to them, merchants can make more successful sales and win happy customers. Driven by machine learning, Recorded Future’s platform gathers and analyzes information from a large number of sources to help teams make the best decisions. During 2018 Black Friday/Cyber Monday, sales through Shopify reached a record-breaking $1.5+

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The SaaS superstars of the East Coast

SaaStock

Thanks to them, merchants can make more successful sales and win happy customers. Driven by machine learning, Recorded Future’s platform gathers and analyzes information from a large number of sources to help teams make the best decisions. During 2018 Black Friday/Cyber Monday, sales through Shopify reached a record-breaking $1.5+

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A Look Back: Everything Breaks When You Go Into Hypergrowth Mode, with UiPath’s CMO (Europa Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

We took the series A, interesting enough, the first executive hired by, thanks to the sales coaching, actually was marketing. We’re in almost every large organization, in Toyota, in the banks and others in Japan. We do have a network of recruiters. We want to recruit, actually find people who aren’t really looking.