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5 Secrets to Moving Upmarket – How the Right Sales Tax Technology Can Support SaaS Growth

SaaStr

hiring in-house talent). “The initial appeal was just how easy it was to work with the system,” CTO and Cofounder David Heinemeier Hansson said, “that we knew rates were up to date and we were billing our customers for the right rates and we could defend that when we were submitting our paperwork.”

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Woven CEO Tim Campos on how to spend your most important asset

Intercom, Inc.

The experience became the inspiration for his next act after Facebook: an intelligent calendar called Woven that can cut scheduling time in half. Tim: I was hired in 2010, when Facebook was what I like to call a “teenage company”. That was actually a pretty tall order at the time. million apiece. Calendars are broken.

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Is Seed the new Series A? (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Since 2010 we’ve seen more startups, funds, and capital than ever before, but with this drastic increase, investors are seeing unexpected new trends reshaping the future of the industry. I think it’s more around a consciousness of what you know, or what you may not know, and then hiring around it to become successful.

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I Asked 13 Buffer Leaders for Advice on Succeeding in My New Role

Buffer Resources

Joel Gascoigne, founder & CEO 📍Started at Buffer in October 2010 as a Founder & CEO 🌎 Location: Colorado, U.S. ⏰ Time at Buffer: 13 years, 2 months Joel started Buffer in 2010 and has led the company through plenty of milestones (he wrote an in-depth article about it for Buffer’s 10th anniversary ).

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How Buffer Reached $20m in ARR by Focussing on Growing ARPA

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Established in 2010, Buffer hardly needs an introduction. Joel had what he calls “an honest conversation” with Buffer’s CTO Dan. At the end of the day, that’s our revenue and drives a lot of other strategic decisions such as hiring and other spend. What is Buffer. Click To Tweet. Pick each piece individually.

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Women in Tech – Female CxOs Share their Challenges in Tech Startups – with Melissa Kwan, Alice de Courcy, Maja Voje, Laura Erdem & others

User Pilot

This could be explained by the fact that it was women, more often than men, who had to step down and work part-time to take care of stay-at-home children during the pandemic. Then I got hired at a tech company in Lithuania before I knew what tech even was. Sometimes once, sometimes twice, sometimes three times.

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2021 in conversation: Learnings from the podcast

Intercom, Inc.

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. We chat with Maggie about all things sales – from laying down a solid foundation to hiring the right people and, finally, scaling the team into hyper-growth. Liam Geraghty: Will Larson is the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app. It was in the air.