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BarbAIrians at the Gate: The Financial Opportunity of AI

Andreessen Horowitz

Cromwell, Teldar Paper has 33 different vice presidents, each earning over 200 thousand dollars a year. One thing I do know is that our paper company lost 110 million dollars last year, and I’ll bet that half of that was spent in all the paperwork going back and forth between all these vice presidents.”

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VP of Trust and other new SaaS titles

Practical Advice on SaaS marketing

Managers reported to directors, reported to department vice-presidents, reported to division vice presidents, reported to group vice-presidents, ad infinitum. But for all its vastness and complexity, a 3-D model of the entire solar system situated within the Milky Way galaxy would have been more appropriate.

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Why We Created a Slack Community for SaaS and Software Professionals

FastSpring

In our first post about our online community , we mentioned launching the Global SaaS Leaders Slack group because we saw a need for the kind of software-and-SaaS-focused community we’d want to be a part of. More established professionals and businesses (less students and early-stage startups). Learning What Matters to Your Business.

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Web Summit Rio 2023: Summary of days 2, 3, 4.

SaaSHolic

Passion and dedication of the founder and the business model’s distribution potential are key points for investment models. The speakers believe that the next 10 years will be better for the region, with opportunities for investment in various industries using technology to solve problems.

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SaaStr Podcast #220: Leyla Seka, EVP @ Salesforce Mobile Discusses What Needs To Be In Place For Hyper-Scale

SaaStr

Leyla Seka is the executive vice president of the Salesforce Mobile platform experience. What were Leyla’s biggest learnings on people and business model through seeing the first hand hyper-scaling of Salesforce from $500m to $16Bn? Leyla is the Executive Vice President of Salesforce Mobile Platform Experience.

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CEOs of Zapier, Walkme and Dialpad: How to Build Your First Management Team (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

How can you recognize that a VP is great, not just good? The panelists offer their insights, which at times conflict with the viewpoints of other panelists, on hiring a cohesive team that can really scale the business. Get best price tickets here!!! This session is particularly fun to look back on. And for good reason. TRANSCRIPT.

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

SaaStr

and Dev Ittycheria, President and CEO of MongoDB held a fireside chat at SaaStr Annual. They talked about product adoption, sales alignment, freemium models and lessons they have learned throughout their successful SaaS careers. Dev Ittycheria – President and CEO of MongoDB. This was certainly one of them.