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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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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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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Chargebee and Glassdoor — November 1, 2019

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Second, why does Krish believe it is one of the most important things any company must do? Does it have to be in person? Billion acquisition is just one milestone in the early innings of the company’s story. Yes, it does not scale, but the beauty is the product. What is the process to do it efficiently?

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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? Payment Processing and Currency Management. Local payment management is critical for several reasons. Where is the best market fit? Where does it have an ROI?

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To Manage a Call Center Efficiently see what Employees Really Think

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Every call center ceo/manager should spend AT LEAST a full shift on the phone." Selfishly enjoying the 5-10 minutes of silence when your phone didn't ring , while trying to throw your coworkers of their game until your phone rang. ??Constantly This job has given me a fear of talking on the phones.”

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SaaStr Podcast #398 with Salsify Co-Founder & CMO Rob Gonzalez

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398: Rob Gonzalez is the Co-Founder & CMO @ Salsify, empowering brand manufacturers to deliver the product experiences consumers demand at every point in their buying journey. I was working on a startup that was an early mobile payment platform. It just made it a lot easier for us to scale up Salsify as we found success.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with MessageBird and Gainsight — October 18, 2019

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The company raised a monster $60M Series A from Accel and Atomico with only one prior investor being Y Combinator. What does Robert mean when he tells founders, “Don’t try to scale”? How does Robert think about knowing when a business is ready to scale? Where do many founders go wrong in the preparation for scale phase?

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