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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.

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19 SaaS Predictions For 2021 and Beyond

OpenView Labs

–Ryan Dunagan, VP of Marketing at Spotio. The prevailing go-to-market structure for SaaS companies in the last decade is through an inside sales team. Virtually all inside sales teams were forced to go remote in mid-March and haven’t been back in the office since. Martin Roth, CRO at Levelset.

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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.

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

SaaStr

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? How does Krish think about purely serving the SMB market? Second, why does Krish believe it is one of the most important things any company must do?

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To Manage a Call Center Efficiently see what Employees Really Think

Upscope

There are plenty of happy smiling recruitment videos for call centers on Youtube but the real data on how people feel can be found in the comments section. Every call center ceo/manager should spend AT LEAST a full shift on the phone." This job has given me a fear of talking on the phones.” Don't let them know that.

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

OPEXEngine

A new competitor hits the market. Would customers stretch out payment terms? They expected customer churn to go through the roof, so they preserved account managers to focus on cross- and up-selling. “We It takes time to recruit the right leader and the first few key resources for a team,” says Mary. “We

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The Playbook to Hiring Your First VP of Sales and Not Screwing it Up…….with Cassidy Ventures Founder Brendon Cassidy (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Brendon introduces his playbook to hiring the first VP of Sales from his experiences as VP of Sales at LinkedIn, EchoSign, Talkdesk and more. Learn the dos and don’ts to make the correct hire the first time and not rush into hiring the wrong VP of Sales, which can cost the company months or even years. Roughly 90%.