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Busting the Myths About Startup Success with BlackLine’s Founder CEO (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

With 3 full days of sessions, featuring over 300 speakers from the best SaaS companies around the world, SaaStr Annual will be filled with actionable thought leadership to help grow your business. My marketing team wanted me to do the world’s most boring video. I retired from SunGard Treasury Systems as their CTO.

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From Freemium to Explosive Growth in a Crowded Market – 8 Years of Learnings with Zoom (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Quick recap: Keep your pricing simple. Mallun Yen : So, you were an engineer by training and then you became an engineering leader, as the CTO of Webex, and then you became a CEO. You’ve got to learn about sales, about marketing and, otherwise, you need to hire a lot of other people around you to help. Eric Yuan: Yep.

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Founder’s Guide to Scaling Applications: When to Build, When to Buy and What Breaks by Algolia Co-founder (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

When it comes to seamlessly scaling your applications, a top-notch engineering team will be your foundation. Julian Lemoine, Co-Founder, and CTO of Algolia will share his lessons learned on how to stay focused and innovative as you scale while also avoiding the innovation for innovation’s sake pitfalls. So very, very small team.

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PODCAST 123: How to Go From a Transactional Model to a Subscription Model with Brandon Meyers

Sales Hacker

If you missed episode 122, check it out here: Tips for Building a Diverse Team of High-Quality Salespeople with Wesley Ulysse. All you have to do is create perfectly targeted content, stay informed on email best practices, drive more engagement quarter over quarter, spend less money, oh, and do all of this with less time.

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

SaaStr

And whether it’s Algolia, Gainsight, New Relic or anything else, you’re being measured on value, not just adoption and at the same time, even outside of COVID, there’s all these other trends happening. Nick Mehta: Power of the developer, or the API economy, both of you play very much in both those trends.

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How To Build (Internal) Trust As A CMO

Outseta

Why building trust with your internal team is the hallmark of great marketing leaders By Geoff Roberts The role of the modern Chief Marketing Officer is a tough one—you’d be hard pressed to name another position that requires a wider range of skills. I’ve played the following roles at various tech companies.

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CEOs of Zapier, Walkme and Dialpad: How to Build Your First Management Team (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

As part of the run up to 2021 SaaStr Annual in the SF Bay Area Sep 27-29, we’re taking a look back at some of our top sessions of all times. Get best price tickets here!!! So let’s take a look back to a deep dive with the CEOs on what they learned building their first senior teams: ———-.