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The Best of SaaS at YCombinator: A Deep Dive with the CEOs of Gusto, Amplitude and Plangrid (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Let’s find out from Sam Altman, President at YCombinator and CEOs, Tracy Young, Josh Reeves, and Spencer Skates. We do product analytics to help companies build better products. As part of the run up to 2021 SaaStr Annual in the SF Bay Area Sep 27-29, we’re taking a look back at some of our top sessions of all times.

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CEOs of Zapier, Walkme and Dialpad: How to Build Your First Management Team (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

So let’s take a look back to a deep dive with the CEOs on what they learned building their first senior teams: ———-. As a founder/CEO, building your first management team is something that you often lose sleep over. How can you recognize that a VP is great, not just good? Get best price tickets here!!!

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Scaling from $1 to $10M, an AMA with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin (Pod 573)

SaaStr

Jason Lemkin: You certainly can hire a whole content team and build 10,000 pieces of content, but I will tell you what I have always seen work is one incredible piece a week. Jason recently opened up an AMA on Twitter Spaces to answer questions about scaling from $1M to $10M. Jason Lemkin: Hey everybody. It was packed. This always works.

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SaaStr Classic: Jyoti Bansal of Harness.io and AppDynamics; Dev Ittycheria of MongoDB (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

and Dev Ittycheria, President and CEO of MongoDB held a fireside chat at SaaStr Annual. They talked about product adoption, sales alignment, freemium models and lessons they have learned throughout their successful SaaS careers. Dev Ittycheria – President and CEO of MongoDB. This was certainly one of them.

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Sean Ellis on charting a path toward sustainable growth

Intercom, Inc.

When Sean Ellis joined Dropbox as the company’s first marketer, he was tasked with creating a culture of growth and experimentation. Today he’s the founder and CEO at GrowthHackers , whose software, community and annual conference help teams work together to drive breakout growth results for “must have” products and services.

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A Friendly Reminder to Cost-Cutters: Keep the Company a Great Place to Work for Survivors

Kellblog

As we struggle to hit top-down targets through rounds of cost-cutting, we cut here and squeeze there so much that we can develop a certain myopia. Or product relative to engineering? Why do we forget this? Are the revenue (and ergo cash collection) targets realistic? Always make a plan that you can beat. Quality of life.

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Bob Moesta on unleashing your sales superpower

Intercom, Inc.

Bob is the President & CEO of The Re-Wired Group and serves as a Fellow at the Clayton Christensen Institute. As a visual thinker, teacher, and creator, Moesta has worked on and helped launch more than 3,500 new products, services, and businesses across nearly every industry. From patriot to Pokemon.