OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Another guest, Paige Paquette built and scaled platform and developer marketing at Slack. Most companies delegate this to user research, annual surveys or maybe the founder’s gut. Company culture is a main driver of innovation. That’s the key to scaling your user base. Do that and you’re going to win.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2020

So, the company starts getting divided up into functional areas, or silos, product management, sales, customers support, marketing and so on, and this siloing of the org chart I think means that not everyone knows what everyone else is doing, and there’s a general feeling of disorganization or chaos in most startups.

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SaaStr

JULY 3, 2020

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. We adapted this operating philosophy for a SaaS company.

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SaaStr

JUNE 20, 2019

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. We started a company with engineers and a few sales people and for a long time that’s the only two major roles we have in the company. Can you guys introduce us to this company?

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