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The SaaS Trust Crisis with Godard Abel (Video + Transcript)

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And you can see by 2050, this industry will be 10 times bigger. And only once you have your trust, can you engage them.” Then that’s proving to be the best way to engage in this new world, to engage them with trusted content at just the right time when they’re shopping.

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Rebuilding the California Dream 

Andreessen Horowitz

And then the second was this period of, I would say, limited engagement between the defense community and at least some of the venture firms in the Valley and how that worked. Number one, it was the fact that we were strangling the Bay Area innovation ecosystem by just not providing enough housing, so we couldn’t create a critical mass.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Jennifer Tejada, Ben Chestnut, and Jason Lemkin

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Jennifer Tejada: Slack, which has become an online collaboration lifesaver for many of us at work and also a social environment for us to engage with our peers. And that means that transparency, vulnerability, continuous engagement with our employees and our customers is now mission critical. Jennifer Tejada: And work is everywhere.

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