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30+ Incredible New Speakers for 2021 SaaStr Annual

SaaStr

Brian Peterson, CTO @ Dialpad. Billi Jo Wright, Chief Risk & Compliance Officer, Payrix. Dave Walters, CTO, Hired. Christa Diaz, Senior Director, Customer Success, Hired. Jenn Knight, Co-Founder, CTO, AgentSync. Take a look at our latest speaker additions here: Martin Mickos, CEO, HackerOne, Inc.

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30+ Tough Learnings from Losing a Top Customer

SaaStr

. “That it was much easier to do more in order to keep that customer than to get a new “top” customer. That you can’t have a majority of y our revenue dependent on one customer. We all underresource customer success vs. sales. A good exercise to do after you lose any top customer.

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Drata’s CEO Adam Markowitz on creating a culture of cyber security

Intercom, Inc.

In today’s data-driven SaaS scene, these can affect hundreds of millions of users and cause damage in the billions of dollars, and as compliance frameworks become requirements to do business, businesses are turning to third-party services that can help expedite and facilitate the process. And that’s where people like Adam Markowitz come in.

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SaaStr Podcast for the Week with Automation Anywhere and Algolia — January 17, 2020

SaaStr

Prior to Automation Anywhere, Yousuf was the CIO & VP of Customer Success @ Moveworks. What can they do to enforce a sense of urgency when signing new clients? How does Yousuf advise founders to think about customized procurement requests to fit certain buyers? Does that work for you, Yousuf?

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Top Global SaaS Trends You Should Know with Google Cloud and Zenoss (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

In the last two years there have been so many new services around security, around machine learning that literally did not exist. What about compliance? Things like customer-managed encryption keys. And we do that together with our customers and partners. So as you do that, you get access to the customer data.

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2021 in conversation: Learnings from the podcast

Intercom, Inc.

Throughout the year, we’ve talked to business leaders, experts, and pioneers about all kinds of topics: from creating world-class customer experiences to the challenges of running a business during the pandemic, from being an ally and addressing gaps in diversity to building technical leadership careers. Will Larson , CTO of Calm.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Bernadette Nixon, Jay Snyder, Nick Mehta, Loren Padelford, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

362: The Future of the Customer with Bernadette Nixon, CEO @ Algolia, Jay Snyder, Chief Customer Officer @ New Relic, and Nick Mehta, CEO @ Gainsight. Customers’ expectations are higher than ever with more access to information and options. I’m sure many of you use New Relic. Jay Snyder: Yeah.