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Software-led payments: What’s on the horizon for platforms in 2025? | Episode 46

Payrix

In this episode of PayFAQ: The Embedded Payments Podcast, host Ian Hillis welcomes Matt Downs, President of Worldpay for Platforms, to discuss software-led payments predictions for 2025 and beyond. Navigating market dynamics in 2025 and beyond Matt emphasized the cyclical nature of the payments industry, likening it to a pendulum.

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GTM 140: How Microsoft Scaled from $600M to $5B: The Enterprise Playbook with Hayden Stafford

Sales Hacker

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Hayden Stafford is the President and Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) at Seismic, where he oversees the global go-to-market (GTM) organization, including pre-sales, sales, customer success, services, partners, and more. I love the guy. Hayden, welcome.

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Sales and marketing 101 for startups: driving growth together

Chart Mogul

It often means investing a lot of time and money without certainty that it will pay off. But sales and marketing are the backbone of every successful go-to-market (GTM) strategy, and getting them right can be the difference between … When and how to launch sales and marketing is a tough topic for most startup founders.

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GTM 154: How AI is Reshaping Sales Tech | Lessons from Building Sales Cloud, Sales Navigator and now an AI-Native Startup

Sales Hacker

He has previously held leadership positions at major tech companies including LinkedIn, Salesforce, and Apple before founding Coffee, an AI-first CRM platform. 06:33 Why Sales Nav was a $250M business with a “crappy product” — and how Doug turned it around. 09:56 Doug’s “awesome test” for hiring top talent (and the 90-day rule he swears by).

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The Latest 20VC + SaaStr: Windsurf’s Resurrection, The Orchestration Tax, and What 80 Hours of Vibe Coding Reveals About the AI Coding Wars

SaaStr

Rather than buying the company outright, Google licensed the IP and hired the top 20-30 engineers for approximately $2.6B, leaving behind what Rory describes as “an empty husk.” ” The president of Cognition reportedly got a DM on Friday night and closed the deal in 15 minutes.

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GTM 149: Inside Meta’s $10B Sales Playbook with Rick Kelley

Sales Hacker

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Rick Kelley is the former VP of Metas Global Business Group, where he led a $10B+ revenue organization and played a pivotal role in building out Metas go-to-market teams across North America and EMEA.

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Check Out the Latest Speakers for SaaStr Scale!!

SaaStr

leadership #womenintech #SaaStrScale [link] pic.twitter.com/JMuRqVP3ae. Javier Molina, VP of Corporate Sales, MongoDB. Sharon Prosser, VP of Global Sales, Zendesk. Astha Malik, VP of Planning and Enablement, Zendesk. Colleen Kapase, VP of WW Partner & Alliances, Snowflake. Ciara Peter, VP, Product, Gainsight.