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The New Rules of AI Investing: Why Speed Beats Strategy and Labor Budget Is the New Software Budget with Google Cloud’s COO

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The New Rules of AI Investing: Why Speed Beats Strategy and Labor Budget Is the New Software Budget The pace of AI advancement has fundamentally broken our traditional frameworks for thinking about technology adoption, market timing, and competitive moats.

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Scaling Customer Success from 0-5,000 Customers with Drata’s VP of Customer Success and VP of Customer Experience

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Your customer success strategy has to evolve as your organization grows. Your company is going to change business goals every year, and your customer success strategy has to move towards and align with those priorities. For example, say your company is going upmarket to Enterprise.

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Snowflake Buys Crunchy Data for $250m, Databricks Buys Neon for $1B. The New AI Database Battle.

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” Snowflake’s Enterprise-Focused Approach Snowflake’s strategy targets enterprise customers and government agencies. .” ” Snowflake’s Enterprise-Focused Approach Snowflake’s strategy targets enterprise customers and government agencies.

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The Journey from Freemium to PLG to SLG: Key Learnings from Dropbox, Salesforce and Vimeo

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The 5 Key Things You Need to Know About Modern Go-To-Market Adam Gross, former CEO of Vimeo and Heroku and and veteran of Salesforce and Dropbox joined SaaStr Annual for a deep dive on the evolution of SaaS go-to-market strategies. The infrastructure cost for real Enterprise readiness is massive.

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5 Nonobvious Learnings from Atlassian’s Path to The First $10B in ARR With Ex-CRO Cameron Deatsch

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This “hands-off” approach counterintuitively led to more organic expansion within enterprises. The “Feature Request Arbitrage” Strategy Hidden gem in their marketplace origin: They turned their biggest product weakness (feature request backlog) into their greatest strength.

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Thanks to Calendly, Drift, Reprise, Secureframe, and Shift Paradigm for Sponsoring SaaStr Annual 2022!

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Reprise provides a no-code, enterprise-ready platform that gives teams the power to control the narrative of their demos and deliver custom product experiences—without developer involvement. Secureframe helps companies get enterprise ready by streamlining SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS and HIPAA compliance.

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The Wild Ride of Informatica: 32 Years, 2 IPOs, to $8 Billion Acquisition by Salesforce

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” That’s not hyperbole – that’s strategy. While consumer apps chase viral growth, enterprise infrastructure compounds quietly. The Second IPO Strategy Is Real Sometimes you need to go private to reinvent your business model. Don’t view it as failure – view it as optionality.