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Top 25 SaaStr Podcast Episodes from 2020

SaaStr

We were fortunate enough to interview CEOs who were in the trenches navigating the COVID-19 pandemic, investors who were advising companies on how best to move forward, and operators who saw explosive growth given the shift to working from home. . Out of its headquarters in Utah, Podium scaled from 5 employees to over 300 employees.

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Top Lessons in Building Great Teams from Khosla Ventures (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Keith began his career in the industry as a senior executive at PayPal and subsequently served in influential roles at LinkedIn and as chief operating officer of Square. Early teams of PayPal, LinkedIn, Square, and now GP at Khosla Ventures. And you’ve been on the early teams at several companies now: LinkedIn, PayPal, Square-.

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Top Lessons in Building Great Teams from Keith Rabois and Founders Fund (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Keith began his career in the industry as a senior executive at PayPal and subsequently served in influential roles at LinkedIn and as chief operating officer of Square. Early teams of PayPal, LinkedIn, Square, and now GP at Khosla Ventures. And you’ve been on the early teams at several companies now: LinkedIn, PayPal, Square-.

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CX author Dan Gingiss on turning customers into your own salesforce

Intercom, Inc.

Because an honest review from your customers – someone’s colleagues, friends, and family – is much more persuasive than any sales pitch or ad you’ve got. This is Scale , Intercom’s podcast series on driving business growth through customer relationships. Liam: So, focusing on the customer leads to profitability. Liam: Right.

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My First 16: Creating a Supportive Builder Community with Plaid’s Zach Perret

Andreessen Horowitz

ABOUT MY FIRST 16 Our new video podcast series My First 16 features interviews with founders and CEOs of fintech companies about how they acquired their initial customers and the hard lessons they learned along the way. We talked to companies from PayPal on down to, two-person companies in the garage.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Pipe and MessageBird — March 13, 2020

SaaStr

and Robert Vis of MessageBird will walk through lessons learned to survive hypergrowth and what will make a difference when it comes to scaling. Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Harry Hurst. So at about 13, I set up an eBay business, and we actually used PayPal obviously to process all of the payments.

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11 Best Growth Marketing Software for SaaS

User Pilot

Drift is a cloud-based revenue acceleration platform that helps businesses automate sales processes by adding live chat functionalities to their websites. While user feedback provides marketers with valuable opinions of users through surveys and interviews, analytics provides objective information and insights on user activity.