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Three million downloads and counting: Inside Intercom reaches a podcasting milestone

Intercom, Inc.

Along the way, we’ve interviewed trailblazers, business leaders, makers and doers to share their experience and insights on all things startup strategy, product management, design, marketing, customer experience, and much, much more. For Slack, that was clearly the engineering and dev communities, who love new tools.

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The “Idea Bake Sale” and Why It’s a Bad Idea to Have One

Kellblog

They never have any new ideas about how to fix our problems.” ” “Other than asking me for more headcount. And maybe even what new products we should build.” But what happens Monday morning, when everyone sees the company-wide message announcing the new initiative? They’re not creative.

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The Top 10 SaaStr Learnings from Mary Meeker’s Latest Report on AI

SaaStr

The companies building on this new stack will have 10x advantages over those still running traditional architectures. As Andrew Bosworth (Meta CTO) noted: “This is our space race…there’s very few secrets. Suddenly, every indie developer and startup can afford to build AI-native products. The Next 2.6B

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SaaStr Podcast #403 with Loom VP of Sales Sam Taylor

SaaStr

403: Sam Taylor is the VP of Sales and Success @ Loom, the startup that helps you get your message across by making it easy to record instantly shareable videos. As for Sam, prior to Loom, Sam spent over 4 years at Salesforce following their acquisition of Quip, a startup Salesforce acquired for $750M where Sam was also the 1st sales leader.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Lucidchart and Wrike — February 28, 2020

SaaStr

Karl has been in every interview for every new hire for the first 6 years of the business, why? So when I moved back to the states, moved to Utah, and actually met my cofounder who was still a student at the time, and Ben had built the first version of Lucidchart because he needed the product at his previous startup. What works?

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GTM 137: The Biggest Business Turnaround You’ve Never Heard Of & The Growth Levers to Pull When Things Go Wrong

Sales Hacker

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Cassie Young is a General Partner at Primary Venture Partners, a $1B AUM early-stage venture capital firm in New York that has backed category-defining companies such as Chief, Alma, K Health, Latch, Alloy, Dandy and Vestwell.

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GTM 125: From Flip-Flops to a $500M Exit as CRO, Secrets to Scaling with Martin Roth

Sales Hacker

Currently, he’s the founder of MartinRoth.com, specializing in helping startups scale from $1M to $10M in ARR. Martin brings a wealth of experience in building and scaling sales teams, developing effective go-to-market strategies, and navigating the challenges of startup growth. It’s in New York. Bowery Capital.

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