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Three million downloads and counting: Inside Intercom reaches a podcasting milestone

Intercom, Inc.

Liam Geraghty: From the very start, Intercom’s mission has always been to make internet business personal, so it’s not surprising that we’ve been podcasting for a long time; since 2012, in fact. And so we hired somebody who had a lot of experience and could recommend ways to build the team.

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

Buffer Resources

Andy Yates, Staff Engineer 📍Started at Buffer in June 2012 as iOS Engineering Lead 🌎 Location: California, U.S. ⏰ Time at Buffer: 11 years, 6 months Andy was one of Buffer’s earliest hires. ’ Doing this will help you feel the impact you're having on the bigger picture as well.”

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SaaStr Podcast #394 with Sunil Dhaliwal and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

And, you go in the wayback machine to 2012, when I started Amplify, Amplify one was me and $49.1 They’re not going to spend any time paying attention to you. But if you’re looking for engagement, that might not be the right strategy. Just like a whole bunch of people said, “I’ll never hire remote.”

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

SaaStr

So one qualitative is when the customers love the product and the metrics for measure the love is phenomenal engagement, great retention, let them expand dynamics into the customers, growth led by expansion MRR more than the new business MRR, and ideally negative share. Should I hire two backend developers or a product design?

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PODCAST 28: How High Growth SaaS Companies Build and Lead Sales Teams w/ Chris Degnan

Sales Hacker

Follow the Demand and Hire Accordingly [16:07]. Chris was actually the first sales hire at Snowflake. They are now well past $100 million in ARR and one of the most successful enterprise technology businesses to come out of Silicon Valley and, in fact, out of the US in a long, long time. We started building that in 2012.

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How to Strategically Score Customer Health to Drive Startup Growth

OPEXEngine

This made it hard to chart a clear course: Jebbit’s message to the market was a bit too broad, causing Sales to bring in customers across a range of personas, prompting CS to invest extra resources to keep a wide variety of customers engaged.”. Engagement: How do they interact with your brand? It depends what you do with it.”.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Bernadette Nixon, Jay Snyder, Nick Mehta, Loren Padelford, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

Really excited for engaging discussion on something I’m passionate about, the future of the customer. Our challenge and our opportunity in customer engagement is staying tightly aligned with the business drivers, having the discipline to manage long term customer journey even when the short term options might be easier.