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How to Build Happier Employees – Lessons From HubSpot’s CTO Dharmesh Shah and Chief People Officer Katie Burke

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At SaaStr Annual we had a great session with HubSpot Founder & CTO, Dharmesh Shah, and their Chief People Officer, Katie Burke, on building happier employees. They talk about the culture code that was created in HubSpot’s early days and how they have continued to have strong retention rates and overall happiness in their employees.

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Everything Founders Should Know About AI, Pricing, and Funding with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin 

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Before diving into your questions, you’ll want to head over to the link below and sign up for an exciting event coming up this week. Is the CTO involved in these decisions? Jason shares that he would love to see more focus on logo retention and GRR and fight this toxic trend of CS reporting to sales.

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AMA at SaaStr Annual 2022 with SaaStr Founder & CEO Jason Lemkin – Part 1 (Pod 607 + Video)

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Black Swan events. But as time went on, we shared lessons, what best practices were in customer success and revenue retention and all these things are, right. And the best one of all, if you didn’t see it, we did it at one of our digital events this year was Spencer Skates, CEO of Amplitude, one of my favorite SaaS CEOs.

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Is Seed the new Series A? (Video + Transcript)

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Since 2010 we’ve seen more startups, funds, and capital than ever before, but with this drastic increase, investors are seeing unexpected new trends reshaping the future of the industry. The panel that we are in is called Is Seed the New Series A, and this is a question that I’ve been asking informally yesterday and today.

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Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot: From Day 0 to IPO. What Went to Plan. What Most Certainly Didn’t (Video, Podcast + Transcript)

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Co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah shared with us how they got there — and the top mistakes they made — just 3 quarters after their IPO. We have someone that probably 98 percent of you know virtually or socially in some sense, Dharmesh Shah, founder and CTO of HubSpot. But of course, it wasn’t always quite that big!

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Top 11 PLG Experts You Must Follow on Social Media in 2022

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Despina is now the organizer of PLG Disrupt Summit , a popular PLG Gathering and networking event. She is a true growth champion and a featured speaker at top global events. Despite being extremely busy, Ramli is always open to new ideas and collaboration offers. #5 Despina Exadaktylou. A True PLG Pioneer. #3

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10 Tough Lessons We Learned Building a Prenicorn Outside of Silicon Valley from Pendo.io (Video + Transcript)

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I spend a lot of time going to events. One of the great benefits of some of the investors that we’ve raised from is that we get invited to a lot of great networking events here. The catch was he had just moved his family four kids to New York city. We had no New York city presence. It’s a positive thing.

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