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Top SaaStr Content for the Week: Mailchimp’s Co-Founder, Y Combinator’s CEO, Workshop Wednesday and More!

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Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: Datadog, ZoomInfo, Atlassian, AWS: Epic Growth — But Some Real Headwinds For The First Time. Each week, we round up our most popular content so you can catch up on anything you may have missed. Top Videos This Week: 1.

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Top SaaStr Content for the Week: Divvy’s CRO, Flexport’s CRO, G2 Reach, Founders Fund’s Partner and more!

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Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: Why Now is a Great Time to Raise Seed Funding. Even If It’s Awful for Series A-E Rounds. SaaStr 628: Revenue Alignment: How to Pull Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success Together with Divvy CRO Sterling Snow  2.

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Strategic Finance in Today’s Market: A Tactical Guide to Building & Scaling Your Team with IVP

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The team is typically highly cross-functional, working together with sales, product, engineering, and marketing, and the goal is to help the other teams make better decisions through data and financial modeling. In 2014, storage had historically been Dropbox’s most significant cost driver, with hundreds of millions of dollars spent on AWS.

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7 Marketing Hot Takes with SaaStr Founder and CEO Jason Lemkin on the Exit Five Podcast 

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1: How Sales and Marketing Have Shifted Since 2020 Expectations and the types of people working in SaaS have shifted over the past few years, and much more in sales, marketing, and customer success. . #1: In the early days, back when SaaStr was just a blog and an email, it was a sense of creating meaning and contributing to the world.

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Hiring Your VPs: When Can You Compromise?

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If you don’t think you need a great VP of Sales, Product, Marketing, Customer Success, and Engineering — then all that all that means is you’ve never worked with a great one. Head of Sales – What Corners Can I Cut? A bad VP of Sales is a total disaster. And to some extent, vice-versa.

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How to Prepare Yourself to Be a Great CEO

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But they are often just awful managers. Manage People. This is one of the best things you can do, because 50% of the job of a CEO is recruiting a team, leading a team, empowering a team, convincing a team. Manage anyone you can, even if it’s not perfect. You probably haven’t done it before. Do dinners.

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How Top Sales Leaders are Adjusting their Sales Process (Video + Transcript)

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An open discussion with Sam Blond, CSO at Brex, and Kristen Habacht, VPS at Atlassian, about adjusting their sales process during Covid-19. Kristen Habacht runs EDR sales at Atlassian, which I got a check today, $40 billion-$50 billion company. She manages a huge global team. Four, people in the sale? Jason Lemkin: None.