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Hyperscaling Post-IPO with PagerDuty’s CEO, Jennifer Tejada (Podcast #485)

SaaStr

It’s super important to make sure that once you get through that public crossover, you’re still setting those milestones and audacious goals that get people excited and inspired to do their best work and create incredible products and services. a cloud communication platform, since Twilio’s acquisition of Sendgrid in February 2019.

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Stripe’s Will Larson on engineering and infrastructure management

Intercom, Inc.

Boss, a build your own search service, and they contacted me. I stayed at Digg until the company closed and through this talent acquisition where we joined SocialCode. When I first joined Uber, I was actually hired as a DevOps manager, which was kind of funny in the sense that I literally didn’t know what DevOps was.

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SaaStr’s Podcast “Best Of Guide” Our Top 10 Podcasts of All Time

SaaStr

Before joining Upfront Mark was Vice President, Product Management at Salesforce.com following its acquisition of Koral, where Mark was Founder and CEO. About the episode: Steve Newman is the Founder & CEO @ Scalyr, the startup that helps your DevOps team solve more problems in less time with log monitoring and analysis in seconds.

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How to Categorize Expenses in a SaaS Startup v2.0

Baremetrics

The gist of it is that Cost of Revenue includes costs that go into providing your Software as a Service. You’ll need Cost of Revenue to calculate your Gross Margin, which in turn you need to calculate Customer Lifetime Value (LTV), Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) Payback Time and to understand your company’s unit economics in general.

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How to categorize expenses in a SaaS startup

Baremetrics

This is where you record all of the costs that go to providing your service, such as hosting and customer support payroll. If you have sales from Professional services, you’d want to create two sets of Cost of Goods Sold?—?one Sales & Marketing. Next, we set up your Sales & Marketing (S&M) costs. Engineering.

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The 3 Pillars of Product-Led Businesses

OpenView Labs

Product-Led Growth (PLG) is an end user-focused growth model that relies on the product itself as the primary driver of customer acquisition, conversion and expansion. The big advantage you have is distribution,” said Sid Sijbrandij, CEO and Co-founder of GitLab , a web-based DevOps lifecycle tool. ” a lot over the last few years.

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The 3 Pillars of Product Led Growth

OpenView Labs

Product led growth is an end user-focused growth model that relies on the product itself as the primary driver of customer acquisition, conversion and expansion. The big advantage you have is distribution,” said Sid Sijbrandij, CEO and Co-founder of GitLab , a web-based DevOps lifecycle tool.

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