SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

And I remember being at that Dreamforce in 2009, which was awful. ” I’m like, that sounds awful. I remember about three years ago, Marc Benioff gave some interview and he said his biggest regret was not continuing to hire sales professionals through 2009, his number one regret. I mean, literally.

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SaaStr

JULY 20, 2021

It’s a brutal, awful slog in the start. I would say, it’s always good to call out just how awful it is to be a founder, to be an entrepreneur, because that is a unique perspective that you bring to the board room that no one else shares. That sounds like an awful idea,” and then you have to work for it.

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SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

Why does Bridget believe the best starting point for customer success is “company culture and value”? How does company culture impact the quality of customer success? Maybe, is it better to take it turn by turn, and how does company culture play into the level and quality of customer success? .

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SaaStr

MAY 23, 2019

When you’re building your company culture, in my opinion? ” And, of course, I mean look at all the stuff they’ve done since: AWS, Mechanical Turk, the fulfillment model. So, when you’re talking to customers and analysts and the markets, talk about the desired end state. Talk about the vision.

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FastSpring

MARCH 10, 2023

Yeah, so, so share your success, if you want to say one sentence what else Yes, then trying to create that’s maybe a tough thing because he can we can give no recipe to do that, but trying to to make a comfortable, comfortable environment for everybody that that you are different from other companies.

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Upscope

JUNE 9, 2021

Working as a apple tech was awful but for the rude customers I would put on hold while I went outside to chat with co workers or grab something from the vending machine. I don't have a thick skin, which probably made it about 15 times worse, but I still can't think about it without having awful flashbacks. What can we learn from this?

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2020

And I remember like AWS was growing really quickly. And at the time there was a big debate of, “Will big companies ever really use AWS?” ” Well, fast forward 10 years later, that seems like such a naive thing to say today.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

It’s your place of meeting friends and you don’t want to be kind of holed up in your apartment working all day, then I think an office environment can actually be incredibly important to a company culture and company execution. Is AWS in the lead? Is the Google in the lead?”

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2019

It doesn’t matter even if it’s AWS’s fault or whoever’s fault, it doesn’t matter, you’re mission critical. As founders, we forget also it’s a real important point what it means to be mission critical. You have a huge obligation to your customer, right? Loren Padelford: That’s true.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 13, 2025

The focus shifts to creating a cohesive organization with second-line leaders who can sustain and adapt the companys culture. With a background that includes leadership roles at AWS, Microsoft, and Lenovo, Fred brings a wealth of experience in building high-performing teams and driving revenue growth.

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2024

” “I hated Katie at that company meeting, it was awful.” ” That all goes to our entire company on the Wiki, so you can download that file, you can read it yourself, you can look through it, you can actually raise on our company Wiki a disagreement about it.

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