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The $939B Question: Is AI Eating SaaS or Feeding It?

SaaStr

The Infrastructure Bypass Midmarket software companies are caught in a “pressure cooker” with fast-moving AI startups developing applications far more rapidly than traditional software companies on one side, and tech giants investing billions in proprietary AI tools on the other.

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Okta’s Playbook to PLG, Developer Experience, and Enterprise ARR

SaaStr

Okta’s VP of Engineering, Monica Bajaj, and Senior Director of Platform Product Marketing, Priya Ramamurthi, share Okta’s playbook to PLG, developer experience, and Enterprise ARR. How do you build a stellar developer experience and continue to scale when the user base skyrockets overnight? Let’s start with product-led growth (PLG).

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The Secrets to Building a World-Class, $2.3 Billion Inside Sales Team (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

sales team. As everyone left to work for an investment bank in California or New York that summer of ’99, I went to work at a startup in Ann Arbor. I did all sorts of things there from sales, to project management, to running the engineering team, hiring. We have team selling here that extends beyond the sales team.

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

SaaStr

So let’s take a look back to a deep dive with the CEOs on what they learned building their first senior teams: ———-. As a founder/CEO, building your first management team is something that you often lose sleep over. What makes you feel that you need to level up your management, set up your first management team?

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For better products, start with a problem statement

Intercom, Inc.

” The secret to shipping successful product, then, is clearly defining for your team the problem that you’re setting out to solve. A great problem statement supercharges product development. It inspires and guides your design team, it makes evaluation simple, and it creates direction for scoping and iteration.

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Understanding the Nature of Payment Gateway Integration For Your Mobile App

Stax

In recent years, businesses have seen this massive shift from desktop to mobile devices which has forced them to develop apps with built-in integrated payment gateways. A bad payment experience can lose customers and damage your brand. There are many different gateways available, each with its strengths and weaknesses.

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The Best of SaaS at YCombinator: A Deep Dive with the CEOs of Gusto, Amplitude and Plangrid (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

The second is pulling more around values, and how we approached team building. Even as a three person team, we went through an exercise to figure out what do we stand for, as a team? Sam : This is not my insight, but someone else says… I really do believe it, that the team you build is the company you build.