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SaaStr Classic: Jyoti Bansal of Harness.io and AppDynamics; Dev Ittycheria of MongoDB (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

You can have the great product and a great team, but the market of small or very niche. The second one is the team, obviously depending on how earlier the team has a huge factor because you may be so early in your journey that there’s nothing else to point to, but the track record of the team. Jyoti Bansal: Yeah.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with PagerDuty and Gusto — April 17, 2020

SaaStr

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Carolyn made her way across the pond from Head of US Communications at Orange to GM of Method in SF to then playing a key role in the marketing team at PagerDuty? * How does Carolyn think startups and larger companies can replace the leads that are lost from having no events in a COVID-19 world?

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Q&A with Maria Pergolino, Anthony Kennada, Aaron Ross and Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Aaron Ross | CEO @ Predictable Revenue. And so, she can, and Anthony just finished up basically going from the first sales hire at Gainsight at almost 100 million in revenue and has just retired. If something bad happens, you’re going to have to cut your burn, probably. Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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Q&A: Surviving Stress in Customer Success

ChurnZero

Q: How do you manage the new instant message (Slack, Teams, Skype, etc.) work culture that’s emerged from remote work? A: I’m the most anti-Slack/Teams person ever. Q: What should you do if your company culture causes part of your stress? If you’re having a tough day, develop a couple of things.

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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. Write down your principles (like your mission statement) and use it very early for guiding culture and decision making.

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Scaling From $10M to $100M ARR: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly with Showpad Co-Founder Pieterjan Bouten (Pod 586 + Video)

SaaStr

The $100 million in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) mark is a magnificent milestone for companies that indicates sustainable business growth. Scalability is about capability, so businesses need to understand whether they have the capacity to grow and whether their infrastructure and team can accommodate growth.

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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. Our team is in Room 111. They were self taught developers. Your registration. We’re doing office hours all day.

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