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5 Interesting Learnings from Braze at $260,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

Dramatically accelerating its new customer count at scale. But the past several quarters Braze has doubled its new customer growth, from 22%-29% to 48% today. But the past several quarters Braze has doubled its new customer growth, from 22%-29% to 48% today. 2016 customer cohort spends 3.2x And it has been.

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SaaStr is Turning 10! How a Blog Turned into A Global SaaS Community for 250,000+

SaaStr

This led to our first meet-ups in 2013 and 2014, the first SaaStr Annual in 2015 , the industry’s leading podcast in 2016, the first SaaS founder coworking space in 2017, and SaaStr Pro , the first learning management system for SaaS founders in 2018. 2016 The Second SaaStr Annual: From Impossible to Inevitable .

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10 Hacks to Have Happier Investors

SaaStr

Your investors and others will learn a lot more hearing about sales from your VP of Sales, your CTO co-founder … and not you. Regularly Ask Your Investors How Happy They Are on a Scale of 1-10. But there are 1,000+ new firms since 2016 alone. All-hands meetings, board meetings, whenever. Yes, you are the CEO.

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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. Co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah shared with us how they got there — and the top mistakes they made — just 3 quarters after their IPO. On a scale of 1 to 10, I’d give it a 7, if you round up from 6.3.

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Laura Klein on improving chemistry in product teams

Intercom, Inc.

I’m currently building a lot of internal tools to help folks do their jobs more efficiently—and to help them scale. When I wrote Build Better Products in 2016, it honestly came out of a ton of consulting. Scaling that up a little bit and giving people a little bit of rope is a good thing, generally speaking.

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

Intercom, Inc.

What started as a series of interviews by co-founder Des Traynor soon bloomed into hundreds of episodes where we explore how businesses are driving growth through customer relationships and how to build successful products at scale. For Slack, that was clearly the engineering and dev communities, who love new tools.

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

Intercom, Inc.

Tim has spent his entire professional career focusing on productivity, from Sybase to TLA-Tencor to Facebook where, over his six-year tenure (2010 – 2016), the amount of revenue per employee doubled to $1.8 million apiece. The next generation of workforce will want and expect the next generation of technology.