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

SaaStr

At the beginning, my vice presidents were engineering, and product, and a designer. Making sure we have product market fit was effectively number one. Build the product. Get it into the market. As the evolution of the company, as we started moving up market, started selling to enterprises, it was, “OK.

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The Ultimate SaaS Pricing Resources Guide

OpenView Labs

New for 2020: SaaS Pricing and COVID-19. The 2020 SaaS Product Benchmarks Report. In this brand-new report, we finally answer the question “Freemium or free trial?” ” The data also shows that before COVID-19 impacted the market, the product led growth index and SaaS index were trading at similar rates.

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My First 16: Welding Yourself to Early Customers with Marqeta’s Jason Gardner

Andreessen Horowitz

About My First 16 Our new video podcast series My First 16 features interviews with founders and CEOs of fintech companies about how they acquired their initial customers and the hard lessons they learned along the way. So we didn’t have product market fit for that. Jason: It took us about 15 months.

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From Freemium to Explosive Growth in a Crowded Market – 8 Years of Learnings with Zoom (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And also, we always prioritize the features requested by our existing customers over the new prospects. Eric Yuan : Yes, when I started the company in 2011, I was already 41 years old, but I still feel that I was very young. And, that was a product manager? Eric Yuan : Product marketing manager. Welcome Eric.

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PODCAST 82: Be Fanatic About Connecting With Your Customer w/ Zvi Guterman

Sales Hacker

In 2011, he had a board-level disagreement with his shareholders … so he bought them out, to radically focus on his customers. Zvi raised a lot of money many years ago — the last time he raised money was 2011. He co-founded and served as CTO of Safend, an endpoint security solution acquired by Wave Systems. Zvi Guterman: Yes.

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SaaStr Podcast #385 with Balsa Founder & CEO Paul Rosania

SaaStr

What does really effective product marketing mean to Paul? Why does Paul believe that the builders are the new pro athletes? People are struggling ,as well as organizations, obviously, but they’re also super willing and keen to try new things to improve how they work. Harry Stebbings: Totally get you.

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