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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. If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop?

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MARCH 29, 2019

Don’t overextend your resources when testing new SaaS growth ideas. Here is what he writes: Kieran Flanagan , VP of marketing at HubSpot, shared some interesting insights on approaching new ideas for scaling up your business. Obviously, you should definitely jump at opportunities like this. Work on developing your brand.

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JULY 18, 2022

Whether you're about to implement DevOps or searching for ways to make it work better for your team, you must remember that DevOps is all about discipline. There is definitely no magic bullet to doing it right from the outset or to fixing your perceived issues in one fell swoop. Is this happening for you too?

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SaaStr Podcast #403 with Loom VP of Sales Sam Taylor

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DECEMBER 3, 2020

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Sam made his way into the world of SaaS with Dropbox and how that led to his leading the sales and success team today @ Loom. What was Sam’s biggest lesson from scaling the sales team at Dropbox? Sam Taylor: And so, I joined as a sales development rep at Salesforce, best move I ever made.

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JANUARY 1, 2019

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AUGUST 15, 2020

362: The Future of the Customer with Bernadette Nixon, CEO @ Algolia, Jay Snyder, Chief Customer Officer @ New Relic, and Nick Mehta, CEO @ Gainsight. Nick Mehta: On a boat in Rhode Island and then our second guest Jay Snyder, who just recently took over as Chief Customer Officer of New Relic, publicly traded SaaS company.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Since 2010 we’ve seen more startups, funds, and capital than ever before, but with this drastic increase, investors are seeing unexpected new trends reshaping the future of the industry. Emilie Maret | Fellowship Team @ The Family. Emilie Maret | Fellowship Team @ The Family. Want to see more content like this? Emilie : So, yes.

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The tools we use: Challenging dogma in the design process

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AUGUST 13, 2019

In a recent talk at UX London , I discussed some lessons learned while growing the design team at Intercom, reflecting on the technology industry’s obsession with tools, and pointed out how our sense of tools as objects or apps blinds us to the reality that the processes we adopt and develop are also, in effect, tools.

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I Grew From Zero to $1,000 MRR in 94 Days: Here’s How I Did It

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JULY 23, 2020

This trend is being accelerated in regions like the EU and California by new legislation such as GDPR and PECR. How I made it to $1,000 MRR Here are the tactics I used to grow Friendly from a brand new startup to a company that makes over $1,000 in MRR. It took us 23 customers to get there.

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Transcript of Redpoint Office Hours with Stripe’s Chief Corporate Advisor and former COO, Claire Hughes Johnson and Redpoint Managing Director, Tomasz Tunguz

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OCTOBER 24, 2021

Great to see a lot of repeat attendees and some new ones. A thanks to [Marsh 00:00:34] for stepping in at the beginning of the month, and a great session with our own Jason Warner and Adrian, the CTO of Zendesk. Lionetti, the CMO at Confluent, and most recently, the CTO from Zendesk, Adrian. Her team loved working for her.

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PODCAST 129: The Keys to Building and Scaling a Company from Scratch with Vishal Sunak

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

They sell that product to general councils, operations teams, and deal desks. Major challenges facing a new CEO [19:40]. They sell that product to general councils, operations teams, and deal desks. Keep the promise of sales enablement and keep your team doing what they do best, which is winning. Sam’s Corner [28:45].

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From Idea to Billion Dollar Business: the RingCentral Journey (Video + Transcript)

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MAY 2, 2019

Join Vlad Shmunis, founder, chairman, and CEO of RingCentral as he discusses RingCentral’s journey from a two-person startup to a $7B market cap global enterprise communications company (NYSE:RNG) — the good, the bad, and the ugly. Vlad : Definitely technologist. Vlad: So what’s the new reality? Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020.

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Customer Interviews: The Most Insightful B2B Marketing Technique Marketers Often Ignore

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JULY 1, 2020

Simply put, you conduct customer discovery interviews before launching a new product, or whenever you want to discover potential customers. After missing the mark on product/market fit for their first startup, the founders decided to find a new business idea and validate it with potential customers. Customer development interviews.

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How To Build (Internal) Trust As A CMO

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NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Why building trust with your internal team is the hallmark of great marketing leaders By Geoff Roberts The role of the modern Chief Marketing Officer is a tough one—you’d be hard pressed to name another position that requires a wider range of skills.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Justin Bedecarre, Jen Nguyen, Jason Lemkin, and Aaron Levie

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AUGUST 22, 2020

And so, when thinking about yesterday’s workplace, which is really important to touch on before we get into the future workplace, you have built workplaces for some of the most iconic brands in the world; Pinterest, Zynga, Tesla, what has been your experience? We’re already in this like a new gen.”

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PR for Startups : Interview with PR Expert Julija Jegorova

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JANUARY 14, 2019

I was planning to become a war correspondent, as was my role model and inspiration Anna Politkovskaya , but when the time came and I was invited to join a group of journalists from a very reputable broadcasting team to go to Palestine in 2010, when I was still at university, unfortunately, I had to reconsider my life choices.

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