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Final Speaker List for 2021 SaaStr Annual!

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We’ll also have a digital day with the President of Shopify, CMO of Canva, the CEO of Y Combinator and so much more if you can’t make it IRL. Harley Finkelstein, President @ Shopify. Michael Seibel, YC Partner and CEO of YC’s Startup Accelerator @ Y Combinator. Amy Appleyard, VP Sales @ VMWare.

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CEOs and CXOs of FullStory, Sendbird, mmhmm, Miro, ChurnZero, Canva, HackerOne Join SaaStr Annual 2021!!

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Michelle Pietsch VP of Revenue @ Dooly. Nikita Miller VP of Product @ Dooly. Brittany Bingham, VP of Marketing @ Guru. Sara Hicks, VP of Product, Commerce @ Mailchimp. Emily Williams, VP, Workplace Experience @ Raise Commercial Real Estate. Harley Finkelstein, President @ Shopify. Varun Parmar, CPO @ Miro.

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A Mental Model for Prioritizing Your Startup's Energies

Tom Tunguz

I’ve playing with a new mental model for early-stage startups: a pendulum. At the moment a startup is founded, the business is product limited. The product and engineering teams’ ability to quickly satisfy these demands limits progress. Regional vice presidents join the sales ranks.

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SaaStr Podcast #411 with Slack Chief Product Officer Tamar Yehoshua

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As for Tamar, previously, Tamar was a Vice President at Google, holding product and engineering leadership roles on Google’s most important products, including Search, Identity, and Privacy. Prior to that, she was the Vice President of Advertising Technologies at Amazon’s A9. How should it be structured?

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2021 in conversation: Learnings from the podcast

Intercom, Inc.

Farhan Virji , Vice President of Customer Happiness at Later. We’re not exactly sure how, but yes, it’s that time of the year again. And what a year it has been! More than integrations and features and quarterly reports, back in August, Intercom turned 10. And truth be told, our journey wasn’t the only one we learned from.

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Three Marketing Lessons from The Political Realm

Kellblog

In fact, to be less kind, if DC communications are the major league, you could argue that consumer marketing is AAA, and we in Silicon Valley are only AA. We play for the love of the game [2]. I pick the right because I think they execute against three principles particularly well [5]: Demonstrate an understanding of the problem.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with InCountry and Y Combinator — July 19, 2019

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250: Peter Yared is the Founder & CEO @ InCountry, the startup that allows you to operate globally with data residency as a service meaning they store your mission-critical data in it’s country of origin, without compliance. What benchmarks should startups bake into the agreements? * When is the right time to sell a startup?