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The SaaS Org Chart Live with David Sacks (Podcast #491 and Video)

SaaStr

David Sacks: SaaS Background and Investments. David’s first foray into SaaS was in 1999 when he joined a startup that would become PayPal, starting as the product leader and later as the COO. David Sacks has invested in over 20 unicorn companies, including Airbnb, Bird, ClickUp, Facebook, Slack, and Uber. billion in 2012.

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Lessons from New Relic: Five Critical Steps to Scaling Enterprise (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

The second is adoption of DevOps practices, and the third is a focus on a digital customer experience. We also invested around those field account executives, more technical sales, pre-sales and eventually, customer success and post sales. When we were SMB focused in the early years, our sales cycles were quick.

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How to Find Product-Market-Sales Fit

Andreessen Horowitz

When should companies offer services? Speaking of, we go beyond the typical discussion of product-market fit into the concept of product-market-sales fit, and what that means for product design, to services, to pricing and packaging, to product management, and more. What does this mean for product design and product management?

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SaaStr’s Podcast “Best Of Guide” Our Top 10 Podcasts of All Time

SaaStr

In 2001 David joined Matrix Partners, who had backed his last two startups, as a General Partner. How does Mark view the amount B2B startups are raising today? How should early-stage startups approach the topic of pricing? Where does Steve see most startups go wrong when it comes to messaging? Episode No.

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Kellblog's 10 Predictions for 2020

Kellblog

While most everyone I knew scratched their head at the enterprise-focused Workday acquiring a more SMB-focused Adaptive, Workday has done a good job simultaneously leaving Adaptive alone enough to not disturb its core business while working to get the technology more enterprise-ready for its customers. The ongoing rise of DevOps.