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Nobody Knows : Steel & Blockchains

Tom Tunguz

Blockchain networks are a new construction material for building a better internet. This section in Read Write Own , Chris Dixon’s book, has been bouncing in my brain for the last few weeks. Which database did PayPal use to enable internet payments? 1 Venmo surged with social & mobile payments in the 2010s.

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The New Discipline Web3 Software Companies Must Develop

Tom Tunguz

The business builds software to help other crypto companies grow. Perhaps you’ll sell infrastructure to help other startups scale or software to manage internal operations. Most US web2 software companies might progress through their lifespans without ever uttering the words treasury management in a board meeting.

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29 Latin American SaaS Superstars

SaaStock

Trailblazing through their home continent, venturing successfully onto the world stage or changing from on-premise software to SaaS, these companies could have a postal code in any SaaS hotspot in the world. ContaAzul was acquired by the collaborative software platform Wabbi Software S.A. We can’t wait to meet them.

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Calm’s Will Larson on how to build a technical leadership career

Intercom, Inc.

For those who don’t know him, Will has over 10 years of experience in the likes of Yahoo, Digg, Uber, and Stripe, and he’s currently the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app that helps millions of people to lower their stress levels and sleep better. With his latest book, Staff Engineer , Will is hoping to answer all of these questions.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Fmr. CEO of Host Analytics and CEO of Namely — Jun 14, 2019

SaaStr

The first step in being acquired by a PE house is “making the book”, what goes into “making the book”? What are the clear differences between a good book and a bad book? How does the selection for who receives the book look? Dave Kellogg: Well, Harry, I’ve been doing enterprise software for over 25 years.

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Forget Support — Optimize for Full Funnel Customer Success

FastSpring

And at a company like Sideways 6 — whose product is an idea management software to help organizations engage people and foster innovation — that emphasis on collaboration gets even louder. And I was given a list of books that I had to buy for study materials throughout that year. Sign up for a free trial or schedule a demo today.

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2021 in conversation: Learnings from the podcast

Intercom, Inc.

In this special episode, we sat down with Zanade to talk about allyship, empowering Black-owned businesses, and what it takes to change deeply seated systemic issues and affect policy at a national level. There is so much knowledge in the sales CRM systems. Because it’s systemic, that already 100% excludes us.