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

SaaStr

When is it right for SaaS companies to turn down potential customers? How should startups decide which customer segment to focus on? * How should startups think about implementing partnerships? There was a small startup scene. I was working on a startup that was an early mobile payment platform.

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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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Customer Success: The Definitive Guide to Customer-centric Growth 2020

Sixteen Ventures

Whether you have a Software-as-a-Service, subscription or membership business or you sell one-off products or services and simply want to do business with your customer more than once, Customer Success should be your driving purpose. In 2019 I worked with amazing companies, venture capital firms, and startup accelerators around the world.

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How Stripe Built a Sales Organization to Successfully Sell to Developers

OpenView Labs

As software pervades every sector of the world economy, the developers building it are rapidly becoming the most important buyers of technology and infrastructure in companies of all sizes. This is simply a bad stereotype and a hangover of outdated selling techniques. At Stripe , we sell to developers all over the world.

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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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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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How to Acquire a $400B World-Class Company by WePay (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

WePay CEO Bill Clerico and COO Tina Hsiao discuss how the company went from launch to acquisition. WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. Bill Clerico : We kind of instantly became one of the best funded FinTech companies in the Valley.