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The Sendgrid Journey: Scaling From Growth Stage to $2B Acquisition in 4 Years (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

In this session, Anna and Sameer will highlight SendGrid’s journey from growth stage through acquisition and why focusing on people and culture is mission critical to success as a company goes through the scaling process. I’m Sameer Dholakia, CEO of now Twilio SendGrid as of Friday after our completed acquisition.

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Tray.io’s VP of Marketing Alex Ortiz on embracing the era of automation

Intercom, Inc.

And if you think about AWS, if you think about the rise of cloud data warehousing, that is a big technology change and a big game changer for a lot of companies. Instead of being automated out of his job, he’s now leveraging machine learning to help him do his job better and increasing his value to the company.

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Salesforce’s Mike Kreaden on how to build a platform to drive growth

Intercom, Inc.

Machine learning can get the right message or recommendation out in a responsive way – not just from the customer’s next best action, but from the sales perspective, too. Just from a platform perspective, we can look at it: everybody knows from the AWS perspective how inexpensive it is to go to market.

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

SaaStr

We’ve all seen AWS and what they’ve done with their platform. You can also find your second act inorganically via acquisition as Twilio did with SendGrid. This one is niche, but it’s interesting, not doing mergers and acquisitions sooner. You changed the name to ZoomInfo after that acquisition.

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Business Intelligence Analyst Career Path

User Pilot

Here’s a quick rundown of their key tasks: Data Acquisition and Sorting : They help gather information from various sources like sales figures, customer surveys , and in-app behavior. Programming (vptional, but Valuable) : Learning Python or R can open doors to advanced data analysis and automation.

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SaaS Growth: Top Strategies and Trends for SaaS Growth

ProfitWell

Running your own server to handle your customer's valuable data requires a huge investment to match the same level of security and reliability that comes baked into services like Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure cloud. This has always been a bad idea, but in the days of machine learning and massive data, it can kill a business.

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Data Scientist Job Description and Templates

User Pilot

Data scientist’s main responsibilities The three responsibility pillars of a data scientist encompass Data Acquisition and Engineering, Data Analysis and Modeling, and Communication and Collaboration. Data acquisition and engineering: Data Extraction : SaaS products generate a ton of user data. Tableau, Power BI).

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