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Stripe’s Will Larson on engineering and infrastructure management

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They’re the ones making sure your app is secure, that uptime looks good, and that the rest of your engineering org has the right tools to build features your users need and want. Will Larson has managed infrastructure teams for some of the biggest names in software. The tenets of foundation engineering at Stripe.

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SaaStr Podcast #225: Stephen Burton, VP of Smarketing at Harness Discusses How To Create True Alignment Between Marketing and Sales

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Prior to Harness, Stephen was VP of Marketing at Glassdoor, managing a team of 52 in product marketing, helping grow B2B revenue from $19m to $90m in just 2 years, leading to their $1.2Bn acquisition. Steve has previously said, “Sales and marketing must be one team.” What does this mean for the processes used by marketing teams?

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

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As for Krish, under Krish’s leadership the team has grown to over 300 people and over 5,000 clients making it one of the next generation in truly global SaaS businesses started in India. First, what is continuous customer development? Krish Subramanian: We are software engineers by training. Loving our podcast content?

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What’s New at Greenhouse: $200M ARR, AI in the Real World, Going Big with PE, and More

SaaStr

If one resume says software engineer and the other says developer, AI can converge these skills so people don’t slip through the cracks because they typed a title incorrectly. Leveraging Your Team When You’re Away As a CEO of a company with $200M in revenue, you have to leverage your team.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Mapistry and Slack — November 29, 2019

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How does Allie advise other founders on scaling sales teams? And I said like “computer programmer” or “software engineer” or something like that. Harry Stebbings: I mean, I absolutely loved that as a founding story and it’s great that he’s on the team now too.

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

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We grew our team by 50% this year, continuing to grow. So I think like anything it’s been good and bad. Bill Clerico : We, I think are going after super exciting part of the market, which is software companies trying to embed payments. And I think our team has done that too. Tina Hsiao : Yeah. Tina Hsiao : Yeah.