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Successes and Setbacks on the Road to $1B with Alessio Artuffo, President and COO at Docebo

SaaStr

For context, Docebo is a learning management platform addressing the needs of corporations that train an audience internally and externally. Customers range from AWS skills-builder platforms with billions of users to Zoom using it for customers and employees. They’re also growing fast and are nicely profitable. Let’s dive into it.

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Why Self-Service and Product-Led Growth Won’t Replace Sales [Opinion]

Sales Hacker

Publicly-traded, PLG businesses grow faster than their peers and are less reliant on expensive sales and marketing investments to fuel their growth. With PLGs massive growth, many wonder if PLG and self-service solutions will replace Sales. Sales Isn’t Going Anywhere. Sales still makes up 25% of their headcount on average.

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Engineering Your Own “Luck”: The 3 Key Rules of Building Globally Distributed Teams with Eventbrite (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

We’ve been a company since 2016. Now, I have some background with luck because in between some long stints with other companies, seven years at Eventbrite and 15 years at Ticketmaster before, I spent five years of my life playing poker for a living and learned an awful lot about luck and positive outcomes as well.

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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

In 2016, Hubspot was still a scrappy player that had only recently IPO’d, with a market cap around $1B. “From Day 0 to IPO: What Went to Plan, What Most Certainly Didn’t” at SaaStr Annual 2016 from saastr. This is not a HubSpot sales pitch, so I’m not going to tell you about inbound marketing.

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After Selling For $580M, Here’s What I Learned About SaaS During My Time At Buildium

Outseta

In this post I’m going to share the most important lessons about growing a SaaS business that I learned at Buildium—collectively, these things had an awful lot to do with the company being valued so highly. I was offered a job as Buildium’s first full-time marketing hire, pulling in a cool $38,400 annually.

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

SaaStr

It was around that time about 12 years ago that Jeff Bezos launched AWS, and some of you may remember that, when he did this, Wall Street analysts were looking at him and saying, “Why would you take what’s already a very unprofitable business and drive it further into the red by investing in this AWS initiative?”

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ChartMogul 2021: Year in Review

Chart Mogul

This year, we also migrated ChartMogul to AWS cloud. To thank the team for their efforts, and commemorate ChartMogul’s 7th anniversary, our CEO, Nick, hired Russ Hanneman, everyone’s favorite brilliant billionaire investor. You can find the ones from past years here – 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , and 2016.