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The decade software ate the world

Intercom, Inc.

If anything, this was the decade they collectively became leaders not just of the technology industry, but of industry itself – Apple overtook ExxonMobil as the world’s most valuable company by market cap in August 2011 (that month again), and then became the first trillion-dollar company by market cap in 2018.

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A Look Back: “SaaS Metrics Masterclass: Key Business Metrics, Pricing Strategies and Billing Models with Stripe’s Head of France and Southern Europe, Guillaume Princen” (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Check out this 2018 Europa session with Guillaume Princen, Head of France and Southern Europe @ Stripe, where he talks about the metrics you need to be focused on in your startup. So growth of the kind of subscription, eCommerce industry has been over 100% year on year for the past five years, according to McKinsey. It’s hard.

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Brex’s Michael Tannenbaum on fintech growth strategies

Intercom, Inc.

“Michael is the rare CFO who also leads up marketing, which makes him the perfect person to talk us through the company’s trajectory” As the head of Intercom’s Early Stage program for Startups, the fast-growing fintech startup is one company I’ve been keeping my eye on. billion dollars. From Wall Street to startup. Tara: Right.

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Calm’s Will Larson on how to build a technical leadership career

Intercom, Inc.

You last chatted with us way back in 2018, when you shared your insights on engineering and infrastructure management. ” I talked to a staff designer, reached out, and actually staff.design is a website with interviews with staff designers, and it’s like, what is a staff designer? Solving the puzzle.

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Our New Transparent Pricing Dashboard: Where Your Money Goes When You Buy a Buffer Subscription

Buffer Resources

Our hosting costs include service providers like AWS, Cloudflare, MongoDb, Twitter, etc. Merchant Fees At Buffer, we rely on Stripe, Google, and Apple for our payment processing needs. Stripe payments make up 98.5 Google and Apple payments make up 2.5% percent of our total revenue and 83 percent of our fees.

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Everything You Need to Know About Freemium Pricing

OpenView Labs

Editor’s Note: This article was first published on August 9, 2018. According to this 2018 research report by ProfitWell, companies using freemium have 50% lower CAC with NPS scores nearly double those of non-freemium businesses. Freemium vs. Free Trial: How To Pick the Right SaaS Revenue Model in 2018. Freemium benchmarks.

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The Answers to Scaling, Hiring, and Everything Else: A SaaStr Europa AMA with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin (Pod 585 + Video)

SaaStr

I’m going to get the numbers wrong, I think Amazon has 10,000 open positions out in AWS. They’ve architected the way they do payments differently in Europe. Try to meet, do some in person, do Braindates, do it over the internet, do it over LinkedIn. I think Azure’s like 7,000, Google. I’ll be your mentor.”