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Investing in Upstash

Andreessen Horowitz

By that, we mean services that scale to zero, are globally distributed, and scale up based on demand. First, application logic is becoming event-driven for new apps, necessitated by high volume and low-latency communication between third-party APIs and microservices. The serverless platform shift is unfolding at a rapid pace.

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Hyperscaling Post-IPO with PagerDuty’s CEO, Jennifer Tejada (Podcast #485)

SaaStr

Lesson 2: Going IPO is not an exit event—it’s a launching point for hypergrowth and employee empowerment. IPO is not an exit event for checking in with your employees’ satisfaction, either. a cloud communication platform, since Twilio’s acquisition of Sendgrid in February 2019. Make sure to have the next six quarters lined up.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with PagerDuty and Gusto — April 17, 2020

SaaStr

As for Carolyn, prior to joining PagerDuty she spent 5 years as the GM of Method Communications San Francisco Office and before that spent time on the other side of the pond with a close to 7-year stint at Orange as Head of Corporate PR and Head of US Communications. How do you communicate for impact? Communications.

Scale 180
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Stripe’s Will Larson on engineering and infrastructure management

Intercom, Inc.

Boss, a build your own search service, and they contacted me. When I first joined Uber, I was actually hired as a DevOps manager, which was kind of funny in the sense that I literally didn’t know what DevOps was. One of the things I found as I’m desperately Googling “What is DevOps?”, product called Yahoo!

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New at Intercom: 5 highlights from our virtual launch event

Intercom, Inc.

We’ve just wrapped up an incredible day of New at Intercom , our first global virtual launch event, where we discussed our vision for the future of customer engagement and unveiled some incredible new products. If you were there, you know first-hand how much news we shared throughout the event. We heard from our incredible customers.

Scale 220
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Enabling Remote Work? BetterCloud Can Help

BetterCloud

Facilitate communication by adding users to new groups across G Suite, Office 365, Slack, Dropbox, Box, and more—all at once. Here is a quick example of how that would work: This will quickly allow you to add users to groups across multiple applications, granting access and helping bolster communication as needed. Register here.

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The 3 Pillars of Product-Led Businesses

OpenView Labs

It’s a completely customized experience that extends to all forms of communication, like ads. The big advantage you have is distribution,” said Sid Sijbrandij, CEO and Co-founder of GitLab , a web-based DevOps lifecycle tool. Marketers get an email with information about Marketo integration. That means investing in product data.

Scale 93