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Top 5 Things We Learned from BUILD in 2021

OpenView Labs

Most companies delegate this to user research, annual surveys or maybe the founder’s gut. Company culture is a main driver of innovation. Postscript (an OpenView portfolio company) has skillfully navigated the myriad talent market challenges by leading with culture. It’s not enough.

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Customer Success for the Enterprise Luncheon Creates an Interactive CS Experience in The Bay Area

Totango

The event brought together executives from leading enterprises in the Bay Area including SAP, Symantec, Oracle, FireEye, Juniper Networks, PayPal, and Akamai Technologies, enabling them to convene over mutual goals, learn from like-minded individuals and network with other senior CS leaders.

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The Cadence: How to Turn Your SaaS Startup into an Army with David Sacks (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Rather than having this erratic schedule around hitting sales targets, or hitting releases, that there’s a feeling that just quarter after quarter the company keeps shipping and selling. Then, my next company, I founded Yammer as the CEO. To me, that’s what the cadence says. I learned this operating myself.

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SaaStr Podcast #349 with Craft Ventures General Partner David Sacks: “How to Turn Your SaaS Startup into an Army”

SaaStr

David Sacks (Yammer, PayPal) shares how to navigate from 50-500 employees. Rather than having this erratic schedule around hitting sales targets, or hitting releases, that there’s a feeling that just quarter after quarter the company keeps shipping and selling. Then, my next company, I founded Yammer. Especially in growth.

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How to Build a $18B+ Success Story Far Away from Silicon Valley with Adyen (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

So I think it was the first time in 10 years or something the editor couldn’t find a company in the Wall Street Journal database. Paypal took a 10 billion haircut in market value and all of a sudden my LinkedIn, email, phone, Adyen, what is this? Can you guys introduce us to this company?

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

SaaStr

We compete with Stripe and PayPal and Adyen and these are sort of very well funded, very sort of driven technology companies. And there’s definitely a big belief in what we do and in our company internally. Bill Clerico: Yeah, sort of what do we do to drive employee engagement up and attrition down?