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Top 10 Reasons SaaStr Annual 2025 Will Be Better Than Ever!! May 13-15 in SF Bay!

SaaStr

With a New, AI Demo Stage from 100+ Top AI Start-Ups! Heres why this years event is bigger, bolder, and more impactful than ever. It’s 50% about the intersection of AI + B2B, 50% about GTM in 2025+, and … 50% about helping you meet the best of the best! It’s May 13-15 in SF Bay, again on our 40+ acre indoor-outdoor campus !

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GTM 134: When to Hire Your First Sales Reps (And How to Get It Right) with Joe DiMento

Sales Hacker

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Joe DiMento is the Head of Go-To-Market & Industry Partnerships at Bain Capital Ventures. Previously, he was an operating partner at Fractal Software, helping launch vertical software companies and find product-market fit. What was your experience?

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Braindates Are Open for SaaStr APAC 2023!

SaaStr

The goal is to help each other learn something new, find mentorships, create partnerships, and exchange strategies. 1,000 SaaS CEOs, Founders, Revenue Leaders, and VCs will join us for 1.5 days of tactical content, networking, and epic evening events when the Cloud comes to Singapore.

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The 18 Awesome Women of SaaS in Asia

SaaStock

After five years at Ernst & Young in New York, she served as Vice President at Citigroup in the Big Apple. Jessie moved to Hong Kong in 2015, where she joined Credit Suisse as Vice President. They are stars in tech in Asia. Grab a ticket before the end of the day on March 8th to avail of Early bird prices.

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5 Reasons Salesforce Was Smart to Buy Slack

SaaStr

They know how to take an established brand and grow it faster, and build or expand a new core offering around it. 100k+ deals are the majority of its growth engine. Salesforce may not be great at creating brand new things anymore. Strong support from Salesforce President Bret Taylor and the top. It should be successful.

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Calm’s Will Larson on how to build a technical leadership career

Intercom, Inc.

For those who don’t know him, Will has over 10 years of experience in the likes of Yahoo, Digg, Uber, and Stripe, and he’s currently the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app that helps millions of people to lower their stress levels and sleep better. If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop?

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Microsoft: We Need A Lot Less Employees. And a Lot More AI Infrastructure.

SaaStr

In Microsoft’s home state of Washington, software engineering was by far the largest single job category to receive layoff notices, making up more than 40% of the roughly 2,000 positions cut in the May round. These aren’t random cuts across the organization.