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Q&A with Maria Pergolino, Anthony Kennada, Aaron Ross and Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Our monthly self-service churn went from like 3% to like 9%, right? If something bad happens, you’re going to have to cut your burn, probably. Maria : Oh, I’ll take the number one thing to improve your culture. And we didn’t know that these companies would last decades, right? We were wrong. Aaron : No.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Tidelift and Cloudflare

SaaStr

Finally, before YesWare, she was VP of Sales @ Engine Yard, where she tripled monthly recurring revenue, over the course of her 3+ year tenure, in 3 key leadership roles. Why does Bridget believe the best starting point for customer success is “company culture and value”? Before Tidelift, Bridget was VP of Sales @ Logz.io

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The 18 Outstanding Speakers at SaaStock LatAm 2019

SaaStock

The SaaStock team will be landing in São Paulo to run the region’s first Pan-Latin American SaaS conference, SaaStock LatAm. Patrick Arippol kickstarted his professional path with an engineering degree, followed by an MBA from Stanford. His first career steps were at Seer Technologies and Monitor Company in the 1990s.

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SaaStr Podcast #398 with Salsify Co-Founder & CMO Rob Gonzalez

SaaStr

Tripod was a search engine there, which exited to AltaVista. Both of us and our third co-founder, Jason Purcell, were at a company called Endeca, which was a search engine for e-commerce, exited to Oracle for over a billion dollars in 2011. And there’s a lot of benefit to running a software as a service, in general.

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Amazon’s Kristin Graham On How to Build, Maintain and Scale a Strong Culture

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There is also a direct impact on employee engagement, which is a key indicator of a healthy company culture. Culture helps a company define itself, attract the right team members and customers, and differentiate in the marketplace. Ask 10 people to define culture, and you’ll likely get 10 different answers.

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How to Build a $18B+ Success Story Far Away from Silicon Valley with Adyen (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

I grew up in the Netherlands, people in Germany, people are being taught when they’re young to stay away from credit, it’s a bad thing, you want to avoid it. So I think it was the first time in 10 years or something the editor couldn’t find a company in the Wall Street Journal database.

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How to Acquire a $400B World-Class Company by WePay (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

WePay CEO Bill Clerico and COO Tina Hsiao discuss how the company went from launch to acquisition. WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. Bill Clerico : We kind of instantly became one of the best funded FinTech companies in the Valley.