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Cognota’s Ryan Austin on Creating an Entire Category (LearnOps)

FastSpring

Ryan Austin had VP-level experience in training when he decided to start a consulting business to help enterprise-level companies with their corporate learning and development initiatives. Ryan and his team noticed so many inefficiencies across the L&D workflows. “It Before seeing good success in the company.

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Avoid Trapdoor Decisions: 5 Lessons Learned from Scaling Stripe (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

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. Know who is the foundation of your product and build your product for that user (in Stripe’s case, developers). 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

SaaStr

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. But we provide a combination of APIs and software. Our team is in Room 111. They were self taught developers. Dare I say SaaS. Your registration.

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

SaaStr

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? Krish Subramanian: We are software engineers by training.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Kustomer, Google Cloud, and Zenoss — August 8, 2019

SaaStr

To date they have raised over $113m in financing from some of the best in the business including Tiger Global, Battery Ventures, Boldstart, Canaan, Cisco, and Redpoint, just to name a few. Eyal and Megan host a fireside chat between Google Cloud and Zenoss, a leader in software-defined IT operations. Missed the session?

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Sales Hacker Recommends: 97 Best Sales Books for Peak Performance (2020 Update)

Sales Hacker

Sales Models and Fundamentals. The New Solution Selling. Sales Development and Prospecting. The Sales Development Playbook. The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team. Wooden on Leadership. Here are the best books on selling (and related disciplines) that can help you hit your goals and develop your career.

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Pros and Cons of Point Solutions for Billing & FinOps

SaaSOptics

What makes finance teams throw up their hands and say, “I just need a tool that can do X!” finance teams are responsible for planning the financial roadmap of an organization and keeping everything in balance. So, where do point solutions fit into all this? . On the other hand, point solutions (QuickBooks, Xero, etc.)