SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2019

Prior to founding Twilio, Jeff was the Founder & CTO @ Nine Star Inc and enjoyed a spell at Amazon as a Technical Product Manager. How did they formulate and approach creating a new set of values with the 2 companies coming together? How has Jeff seen his original thesis for “developer first” evolve and change with time?

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CloudGeometry

JULY 8, 2021

What starts as an easy hack for a new feature that accesses the database directly sprawls quickly into reads and writes that conflict with all kinds existing functions. and onboarding new customers. The User Stories at the core of Agile/Scrum development style are essential for translating customer intent into feature development.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Why does Paul believe that the builders are the new pro athletes? Most people don’t want to customize their software. And especially when there’s a polarizing change, everybody shows up to work wanting to do right by the people who are using your software all day. How will the structure of orgs change around them?

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Crafty CTO

MAY 1, 2020

The identified slice needs to be small enough to execute in a few days, and if possible, something novel, new to us. When new tasks come up, you know where to put them. As you might have noticed, Shape Up is all about sciencing the s**t out of every aspect of software development, and they did it again here.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

And in major hubs like San Francisco and New York, what we’re doing is helping create the vision for a more experiential space, almost like a cafe where they can come and go as they want, they can bring clients, they can bring customers. We don’t know when we’re going to be able to get safely back at scale.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

What sets apart some of the most successful, high-growth companies we see today—Slack, Dropbox, Atlassian—has been their ability to tap into and master a new GTM strategy: B2C2B. So we cracked open a basic programming book and we started learning how to write our first lines of software together. So, let me walk you through that.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 21, 2020

Leveraging the next generation of artificial intelligence, the platform allows sales reps to deliver consistent, relevant, and responsible communication for each prospect every time, enabling personalization at scale previously unthinkable. The thought was, if I’m in New York, my client’s in Chicago, LA? Check out outreach.io

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