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Avoid Trapdoor Decisions: 5 Lessons Learned from Scaling Stripe (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Speaker video: Stripe is really a set of developer tools for building and operating an online business. I’m an execution person.

Scale 152
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19 SaaS Predictions For 2021 and Beyond

OpenView Labs

We’ll see more services companies adopt a product led growth strategy but for selling their services online. One is connected to the payments business and what my company, Flywire, does, and the other is related to how organizations manage themselves. Events / conferences will never be the same.

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SaaStr Podcast #217: Stripe COO Claire Hughes Johnson on The Trapdoor Decisions to Avoid When Scaling

SaaStr

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. We work with many of the companies who are here at SaaStr, Salesforce, Slack, Twilio, Zoho, and I hope many of you in the room. Dare I say SaaS.

Scale 116
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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Chargebee and Glassdoor — November 1, 2019

SaaStr

Listen to the start of the episode for a promo code to our upcoming events! In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Krish made his way into the world of SaaS and came to found one of India’s fastest growing SaaS companies in Chargebee? Second, why does Krish believe it is one of the most important things any company must do?

Scale 127
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How Smart Contingency Planning Helped Salsify Get Through the Hardships of Covid-19

OPEXEngine

With an annual plan and reassessment cadence set, each year the Salsify team stress tests their plan, asking: What would happen in the event of a recession? Would customers stretch out payment terms? Limiting layoffs to one round: This nimble yet methodical planning enabled Salsify to cut at an appropriate depth.

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

SaaStr

In this session, the audience will learn about Adyen’s journey from a Dutch payments startup, to a global public company with more than 15 offices around the world working with large global companies like Facebook, Spotify, Uber and Microsoft. People pay with cash and how do you get that cash into your systems?

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The Playbook to Building a Customer Reference Program with Talkdesk SVP of Client Services Gillian Heltai (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Another way that customers become advocates is a personal relationship with the account team. We can also ask informally during a catch-up call, a site visit, personal email out to a ballgame, would you be willing to be an advocate for Talkdesk? Then finally, local event attendance.

Scale 142