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Quality of Life: What Does It Mean For A Start-Up?

SaaStr

Investing at a breathtaking pace. And he made an observation to me that I’d been thinking about for a very long time, but didn’t know how to express. In many ways, your Quality of Life will simply be awful. Second, hire the best management team you can as early as you can. 20×7, near as I can tell.

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Intercom’s Rich Archbold on how to run less software

Intercom, Inc.

If you find this valuable, check out more episodes of our podcast. Over time I had eight different jobs there and progressed from an engineer, to technical project manager, to technical program manager, to manager, to a manager of managers. We will use only a specific set of AWS data stores. What it means to Run Less Software.

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Calm’s Will Larson on how to build a technical leadership career

Intercom, Inc.

That question has been on Will Larson ‘s mind for a long time. For those who don’t know him, Will has over 10 years of experience in the likes of Yahoo, Digg, Uber, and Stripe, and he’s currently the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app that helps millions of people to lower their stress levels and sleep better.

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Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot: From Day 0 to IPO. What Went to Plan. What Most Certainly Didn’t (Video, Podcast + Transcript)

SaaStr

Co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah shared with us how they got there — and the top mistakes they made — just 3 quarters after their IPO. We have someone that probably 98 percent of you know virtually or socially in some sense, Dharmesh Shah, founder and CTO of HubSpot. You’ll find out tomorrow.

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SaaStr Podcast #394 with Sunil Dhaliwal and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin. Interesting for a couple reasons, but Sunil’s been investing in cloud internet since before almost anybody. So, his insights I find very helpful. This episode is sponsored by Outgrow.

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Forgot the SaaS Gloom and Doom on Social. ‘Just Build’ with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

You can see the growth on the platform side with Azure, Google, and AWS and how much it’s accelerating in AI. Maybe if you have the ex-CTO of Github, but that’s still a super speculative bet. Every VC wants to invest. Salesforce is pushing toward 40% margins, but where will you invest if you can’t hire anyone?

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Beyond Frankencloud: living with your once and future SaaS architecture

CloudGeometry

Fix technical debt when you find it, and the code will be ready for change when the next boy or girl scout arrives. Well-Architected Framework scorecard : One of the great advantages AWS has over other cloud providers is what it learns from the Amazon consumer eCommerce business. DevOps transformation! Containers!