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The decade software ate the world

Intercom, Inc.

The ultimate failure of Siri to dominate the AI personal assistant game might come to be seen as its biggest miss of the decade. Facebook and Twitter, meanwhile, struggled under the unavoidable pressure of hosting half a globe’s worth of daily online communication. Big tech takes over. .

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SaaStr’s Most Respected Leaders Awards 2019: The Top Five

SaaStr

Stripe’s software allows its customers to make and receive payments by providing the technical, fraud prevention and banking infrastructure to operate online payment systems. Qualtrics is an online survey software maker. Ryan Smith Qualtrics Founder/CEO. In 2004 he became CEO of MarkLogic where he stayed until 2010.

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

SaaStr

Eyal and Megan host a fireside chat between Google Cloud and Zenoss, a leader in software-defined IT operations. I thought CRM, in the cloud, et cetera, was never going to be anything. Do you not think that actually we’ve just transferred to cloud lock-in versus on-prem lock-in? So what do I know right? vendors right?

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Matt Garratt, Trisha Price, David Schmaier, Rob Bernshteyn, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

Coupa CEO, Rob Bernshteyn, and SaaStr CEO, Jason Lemkin, will discuss how the Cloud has changed in 2020. We’ve invested in over 300 companies at Salesforce Ventures and have partnered with both of you closely and it’s been amazing to see this story up close and personal over the years. David Schmaier: Sure.

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Recur Now 8/26: Retail therapy? Subscribed.

ProfitWell

Zenefits, a cloud-based software for managing human resources, scored a # 10 spot. Stripe, the online payment processing software, was placed in eighth. Tech Tribune came to these results after researching revenue potential, leadership team, brand/product traction, and competitive landscape. Happy dosing.

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Summary of New York Tech Week 2023 (Itaú BBA, BTG, BofA)

SaaSHolic

Three important factors for companies to consider when implementing AI are discussed: organizational structure, management systems, and leadership models, with an emphasis on simplicity and financial optimization in data processes. Corporations have a huge responsibility in providing workforce development opportunities for their employees.

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Is Strategy Dead in Tech? The Winners Don’t Think So

OPEXEngine

They define a bold path to leadership, they make difficult portfolio choices, they allocate resources strategically and they build strong capital structures. A simple example is how companies of any size can now tap capacity and capabilities rapidly and inexpensively via the cloud. That has turned into a big win for Google.