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Q&A with Maria Pergolino, Anthony Kennada, Aaron Ross and Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

So, Aaron and I wrote a book together in 2014 or something. And I remember being at that Dreamforce in 2009, which was awful. If something bad happens, you’re going to have to cut your burn, probably. There is one thing, I love this quote and it’s a little bit of a crude quote, not that it’s bad language-.

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Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot: From Day 0 to IPO. What Went to Plan. What Most Certainly Didn’t (Video, Podcast + Transcript)

SaaStr

Turns out a founding team of six MBAs creating a full suite of products sold solely to SMBs can become a multi-million dollar public company in nine years – and continue growing rapidly ($77.6 million in 2014.). We had a notable funding round in October of 2014. Dharmesh : …said, “This is a very bad idea.

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Moving ChartMogul to AWS and Kubernetes

Chart Mogul

A few months ago, we retired our last pieces of infrastructure on DigitalOcean, marking our migration to AWS as complete. Our journey was not your regular AWS migration as it involved moving our infrastructure from classic VMs to containers orchestrated by Kubernetes. Ultimately, we decided to go with AWS. Team expertise.

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Founder’s Guide to Scaling Applications: When to Build, When to Buy and What Breaks by Algolia Co-founder (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

When it comes to seamlessly scaling your applications, a top-notch engineering team will be your foundation. We develop a search API to help any developer to have a very good search in their application. So today we are a distributed team. Of course, behind this product, we have a super strong team.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Byron Deeter, Elliott Robinson, Henry Schuck, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

374: ZoomInfo founder and CEO Henry Schuck shares how he built a business from scratch and grew it into one of the most successful IPOs of the 21st century—and what it was really like…the good, the bad, and most of all, the ugly. If you go back to before 2014, what you see is the power of the cloud. It is staggering.

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State of the Cloud 2019: Europa Edition with Alex Ferrara, Bessemer Venture Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. Retail was mentioned twice, that’s it, and AWS was mentioned 78 times, so it’s probably not surprising that they’re doing this. I think it’s a really staggering stat.

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170+ Women in Sales Share Their Career-Defining Aha Moment

Sales Hacker

Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. That company only lasted another year before they were out of business, so it was a poor use of my energy, time, and being away from my family – a lesson I work to pass on to others new in roles today. Invest in your development internally and externally. Joyce Johnson.

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