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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. Write down your principles (like your mission statement) and use it very early for guiding culture and decision making. Our team is in Room 111.

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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. But we provide a combination of APIs and software. Our team is in Room 111. They were self taught developers. Dare I say SaaS. Your registration.

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The Stages Of A SaaS Company: When To Scale For Success

Chargify

It came up because people regularly refer to Chargify as a startup, but our company has been around since 2009. There are specific stages a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company moves through during its life cycle. Do you really need to know what phase your company is in?”. Seeking financing from friends and family.

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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 Rules You Can Break, The Ones You Can’t With Tradeshift (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Jos White of Notion and Christian Lanng of Tradeshift team up to show you how to work within, and sometimes around, rules in the workplace. Join this discussion to learn how to maximize efficiency within your company. But invoicing happens to be connected to something really, really important, which is payments. ” No.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Pleo and Talkdesk — October 4, 2019

SaaStr

Ep 270: Jeppe Rindom is the Founder & CEO @ Pleo, the simple spending solution for your company automating expense reports and simplifying company expenses. As for Jeppe, prior to founding Pleo he was the CEO @ Nodes, a design and development house that worked with brands including Loreal, BMW and Lego.

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