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Microsoft: Bosses Are Doing Better Than Their Teams During Work-from-Home

SaaStr

First, most Cloud businesses have benefitted dramatically from Covid. Many Cloud and SaaS CEOs have gotten more effective and efficient — and richer — during Covid. But I think the learning from all my interviews here and the Microsoft data is to be careful to map your experience, and feelings, to your team’s.

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Drata’s CEO Adam Markowitz on creating a culture of cyber security

Intercom, Inc.

And as nice as verbal assurances and a handshake are, as you grow and try to sign with more established, enterprise-level companies, you’ll find yourself more and more having to provide proofs of compliance before closing the deal: The shift to the cloud, more and more data breaches – it really put a magnifying glass on third-party risk.

Scale 211
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Intercom’s Rich Archbold on how to run less software

Intercom, Inc.

That includes all of our cloud strategy, cloud operations, backend engineering, IT and security. Prior to Intercom I spent about 10 years working for big tech companies. You can think of them beginning from very base infrastructural technologies, and in our case we’re betting exclusively on AWS as a cloud vendor.

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SaaStr Podcast #341 with BetterCloud Founder & CEO David Politis

SaaStr

Before founding BetterCloud, David was an early employee of Cloud Sherpas (acquired by Accenture), where he led the company to become the leading cloud services partner to SMB worldwide. How has David seen the rate of cloud adoption within enterprise over the last 5 years? Has it been faster or slower than he thought?

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The Toughest Roadblocks When Breaking Through to $15M ARR

SaaStr

Talkdesk is a cloud call center platform for enterprise companies. Right now the company is more than 300 people based between Lisbon Portugal and Porto as well in San Francisco. And I’m not working in the daily operations of the company anymore and I’m launching a VC fund for early-stage companies.

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SaaStr Podcast #372 with 6sense CMO Latané Conant

SaaStr

Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Latané. And if I were a salesperson today, I would definitely be asking in the interview process, how is demand gen set up? So it’s like truly refreshing for me as an interviewer. We had a theme that was rise above the clouds. Harry Stebbings.

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How Pendo Leverages a Great Product, Customer-centricity and Strong Culture for Success

OpenView Labs

The shift from on-premise, contract-based software to cloud-based, month-to-month SaaS solutions means that costs are lower and relationships are more flexible. Principle 3: Build a Strong Company Culture. The third and final principle behind Pendo is to build a culture that attracts the best people.