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$1M to $100M in 20 Months, The Hard Part: How Everything Breaks in Hypergrowth with Deel Co-Founder & CRO Shuo Wang (Video)

SaaStr

They focused on building a payment platform that empowers international talent and independent contractors to get paid on time in a compliant way while also ensuring that companies can hire international talent and make payments efficiently. This insight led Deel to focus on solving payments and compliance.

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

SaaStr

Second, why does Krish believe it is one of the most important things any company must do? Does it have to be in person? How should this data feedback into your product roadmap and pipeline? * Billion acquisition is just one milestone in the early innings of the company’s story. What is the process to do it efficiently?

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Move Thoughtfully and Create Things: Stripe’s 4 Steps to International Expansion

OpenView Labs

At Stripe , we build infrastructure that allows internet businesses big and small to accept payments from anywhere. Despite what the business books might tell you, there’s no playbook for new market entry. Technology companies who’ve attempted cookie cutter internationalization have generally failed. You should hire them first.

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

SaaStr

I was working on a startup that was an early mobile payment platform. It was basically using Bluetooth and an app on PalmPilots to do wireless payments in restaurants. And actually, one of the restaurants burned down and took our whole prototype with us, and that was pretty much the end of that company.

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How Stripe Built a Sales Organization to Successfully Sell to Developers

OpenView Labs

In our mission to increase the GDP of the internet, we work with both small startups and public companies, helping them remove the complexity of processing the payments that are the heartbeat of every business. Stripe is a company built by developers, for developers.

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Top 50 Women Leaders in Customer Success 2022

SmartKarrot

An Award-Winning Customer Success Professional, Asha Patel is known for leading teams and delivering strategic plans for improving the customer experience in a company. She is a coach who focuses on personal development, relationship building, success planning, customer engagement and retention, and customer journey. Caroline Andreola.

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

SaaStr

But invoicing happens to be connected to something really, really important, which is payments. So if you get the invoice, you get the payment and that’s a lot more interesting. Spend to get market share and be okay with the small market because you can saturate that market really, really fast. ” No.

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