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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”? Loving our podcast content? Who has done this well?

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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? We’re seeing that the marketplace is becoming like more and more noisy, right? There’s tons more SaaS companies, spam calls, robo techs, like all this stuff. There’s tons more SaaS companies, spam calls, robo techs, like all this stuff.

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The 18 Outstanding Speakers at SaaStock LatAm 2019

SaaStock

He dropped out of Stanford Graduate School of Business and then co-founded LeaseExchange, an online marketplace for equipment leasing. Today he is the man behind Predictable Revenue, the “Outbound Success Company.” Talk: SaaS.City Bootcamp: Sales Leadership. Talk: SaaS.City Bootcamp: Sales Leadership.

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5 Rules to Win When Competition is Everywhere With Atlassian COO Anu Bharadwaj and Boast.AI Co-Founder Lloyed Lobo

SaaStr

So, Atlassian wants to empower other builders to serve all kinds of teams, and the company embraces its ecosystem made up of 1500 marketplace products and third-party apps. Atlassian likes lifting up other companies that can help give teams fully rounded solutions. Leading With Empathy.

Scale 243
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There are No Shortcuts: 5 Hard-Won Lessons from Zenefits CEO Jay Fulcher

OPEXEngine

That’s exactly what got the former Zenefits leadership team into trouble. A clever business model enabled the company to be “the fastest-growing software company on the planet,” he says. It’s not just about delivering a superior product to the marketplace; rather, several stars must align,” he says. Company Culture.

Scale 52
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SaaStr Podcast #398 with Salsify Co-Founder & CMO Rob Gonzalez

SaaStr

Rob Gonzalez: Operationally, I look at, in particular, my experience at Endeca, but also another startup that sold to pharmaceutical companies and other life sciences businesses and financial services companies called Cambridge Semantics. 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

OpenView Labs

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. Really effective culture is a kaleidoscope, not a photograph.”.

Scale 98