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Doubling Down: Erica Brescia, Managing Director at Redpoint Ventures

SaaStr

“Doubling Down” is a new series where we hear from top B2B SaaS investors on their most recent activities and takes on the current market. Jason Warner , who was CTO of GitHub before and during my time as COO there (and a former partner at Redpoint!) Check that out here. What’s your most recent disclosed investment?

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Who is Lenny Rachitsky: Background, Newsletter, Podcast, and More

User Pilot

” This platform specialized in location-based queries , allowing travelers to seek advice directly from residents of a particular city. He worked as a Product Lead at Airbnb for 7 years, where he managed a number of teams, supported strategy for the anti-discrimination team, and built new tools for hosts.

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SaaStr Podcast #214: Erica Schultz, CRO @ New Relic on What It Takes To Successfully Scale Into Enterprise

SaaStr

Erica Schultz is Chief Revenue Officer @ New Relic, the company that gives you the real time insights your software driven business needs to innovate faster. Prior to their IPO, New Relic raised over $214m in funding from some of the best in the business including Benchmark, Insight Venture Partners and Blackrock, to name a few.

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Manual Automation: How to build software with no code

Hacking Revenue

We can put together a WordPress website and we have some fancy badges in CodeAcademy, but no CTO in his right mind will let either of us touch their production environment and/or keyboard. Prospecting tool for generating new leads. You are no longer in “innovation” mode. Nothing is new here. Don’t worry about it.

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Le Mans, Unabridged

Crafty CTO

Audi has likewise innovated on its internal combustion engine: starting in 2006, Audi made an unprecedented switch to diesel power. It normally takes years for a new team to master Le Mans’ triple requirements: speed, reliability, and teamwork. 2015 was just Porsche’s second year, so winning seemed highly unlikely.

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SaaStr Podcast #394 with Sunil Dhaliwal and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

What about, as someone who’s gone from your own solo GP fund in 2012 to a team, how does a founder think about a new partner? Because, on the one hand it’s exciting, and what I see a lot today is founders often bond with a new partner. If I get picked, do I want the more experienced partner, the new partner?

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Justin Bedecarre, Jen Nguyen, Jason Lemkin, and Aaron Levie

SaaStr

And the purpose, obviously, was to enhance face-to-face collaboration, innovation, and productivity. Justin Bedecarre: And it’s a really inspirational thing to add technology and innovation to the workplace, how you find space, how you manage space, and build the office of the future. We’re already in this like a new gen.”