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Forecasting Fintech’s Future and Keeping Culture Alive: A Q&A with the CEOs of BILL and Mercury

Andreessen Horowitz

Alex: Let’s forecast out. One of the holy grails of SMB software is, how are you going to acquire customers? One of the criticisms of SMB software is that each customer can only provide so much revenue. BILL started much heavier on subscription, but has really leaned into payments over the last several years.

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The Chat GPT Growth Story: How AI is Changing the Way We Work with OpenAI’s Head of Sales, Aliisa Rosenthal

SaaStr

She joined a team of two, and there was a lack of product-market fit beyond small groups of researchers. The goal was to build safe AGI — AGI being autonomous systems that can perform work as well or better than humans. The reality was product market fit wasn’t quite there yet. How did they get here?

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Doubling Down: Peter Specht, Partner at Creandum

SaaStr

This was precisely my experience upon meeting Toni and Carlos, the founders of Embat, in an area we’ve extensively have been exploring: treasury management and payment automation. Embat is building the next-generation treasury management software. It’s one of the top 3 pain points of mid-market and enterprise CFOs.

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$1M to $100M in 20 Months, The Hard Part: How Everything Breaks in Hypergrowth with Deel Co-Founder & CRO Shuo Wang (Video)

SaaStr

They focused on building a payment platform that empowers international talent and independent contractors to get paid on time in a compliant way while also ensuring that companies can hire international talent and make payments efficiently. This insight led Deel to focus on solving payments and compliance. Support sales early.

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ChartMogul 2022: Year in Review 

Chart Mogul

That kind of information is really powerful; you can take action to mitigate upcoming churn, allocate marketing spend, or just give you the motivation you need to push a bit harder to hit that target. . They hold the key to finding product-market fit and telling an effective growth story. Try it out. . Scheduled email exports.

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Chargebee Reviews

Baremetrics

Within their platform, users can manage various aspects of their online customers such as subscription, recurring billing, invoicing, payments, accounting, taxes, and more. By integrating directly with your payment gateway, such as Stripe, Baremetrics pulls information about your customers and their behaviour into a crystal-clear dashboard.

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How to Build your Marketing Stack with Gorgias and OpenClassrooms (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Guillaume : So your the… as the founder and CEO of a very early stage, like almost pre-product market fits a startup. Alice : Definitely pre-product market fit. We’re still at a stage where the product evolves a lot. It was mostly just how to activate them, how to make them come back to the app.