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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. Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide. Manual processes first. Our team is in Room 111.

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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. Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide. Our team is in Room 111. Dare I say SaaS.

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

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As for Krish, under Krish’s leadership the team has grown to over 300 people and over 5,000 clients making it one of the next generation in truly global SaaS businesses started in India. First, what is continuous customer development? Second, why does Krish believe it is one of the most important things any company must do?

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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. Harry Stebbings: We are back. My account runs my website.

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The Rules You Can Break, The Ones You Can’t With Tradeshift (Video + Transcript)

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Jos White of Notion and Christian Lanng of Tradeshift team up to show you how to work within, and sometimes around, rules in the workplace. Join this discussion to learn how to maximize efficiency within your company. But invoicing happens to be connected to something really, really important, which is payments. ” No.

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How to Acquire a $400B World-Class Company by WePay (Video + Transcript)

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WePay CEO Bill Clerico and COO Tina Hsiao discuss how the company went from launch to acquisition. WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. We grew our team by 50% this year, continuing to grow. Tina Hsiao : Yeah.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Pleo and Talkdesk — October 4, 2019

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As for Jeppe, prior to founding Pleo he was the CEO @ Nodes, a design and development house that worked with brands including Loreal, BMW and Lego. How does Jeppe respond to 3 common concerns VCs have with SMBs: * The price points are so low that it takes huge volume to scale to meaningful revenue? * What changes? *

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