SaaStr

JUNE 25, 2019

Now, I have some background with luck because in between some long stints with other companies, seven years at Eventbrite and 15 years at Ticketmaster before, I spent five years of my life playing poker for a living and learned an awful lot about luck and positive outcomes as well. 18 hires a year I had to make in San Francisco.

Engineering 184

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Sylvia Ng

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Computer science (or related) degree, coding bootcamp completion, or extensive experience building web/mobile apps. 3+ years of mobile-specific experience (including both iOS and Android). Work across the stack: mostly Python/Flask, PostgreSQL, JavaScript (React/JQuery/Backbone) and working with AWS. Background in statistics.

Engineering 74

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

We’ve all seen AWS and what they’ve done with their platform. Leadership can really turn around really any area of the company.” You just don’t have the right leadership or structure to get there often. If you look at the IAS vendors, they passed $130 billion revenue milestone this year. It is staggering.

Sales Hiring 235

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BetterCloud

MARCH 31, 2020

How does it look on different sized screens or mobile devices? If it’s hosted on AWS and some AWS AZs go down, do they have continuity built in? (Can the same thing be accessed from multiple places, or do I frequently have to go back out of one thing and into another?). How responsive is it? Do the pages load quickly?

SaaS 59

SaaS AWS Software Review Systems Review 59

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Parse was a mobile app platform that got acquired by Facebook. I actually enjoy doing my expense reports now, but expense reporting prior to Expensify was just awful. That’s how early I was. We launched SMS a year later. Who here’s heard of or used Twilio? After that I went and led go-to-market at Parse. I love Expensify.

Investment 113

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

One of the most famous lines from Citizen Kane is, “It's no trick to make an awful lot of money, if that's all you want is to do is make a lot of money.” Other types of advertising that fall under the same revenue model include search engine marketing, social media marketing, and mobile advertising.

Payments 40

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Rise of mobile. Inspired by Andreessen’s maxim, in 2014 Benedict Evans coined the phrase “ Mobile is eating the world ,” which in retrospect feels like it downplayed just how much our daily lives have become consumed by our smartphones. . Big tech takes over. .

Payment Solutions 259

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Software SaaS Payments 259

SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

If you haven’t signed up on the mobile app or whatever, it’s cool. And I remember being at that Dreamforce in 2009, which was awful. ” I’m like, that sounds awful. ” So we want to own it and be able to work with sales and sort of a servant leadership perspective, put them in a position to prospect.

Sales Hiring 246

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 1, 2019

It’s for all roles in the revenue organization from Demand Gen, to Sales Development, Ops/Enablement, Management, Leadership, Account Executives, and even Customer Success. Prior to Outreach, Manny was the third employee on Amazon’s AWS team, and led the Microsoft mobile division from launch to $50M in annual revenue.

Scale 69

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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?” And at the end of the day, that’s a leadership decision from founders of saying, “What kind of place do we want this to be for people to work?” As a team together.

Sales Hiring 255

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SaaStr

MAY 21, 2019

78 times in the AWS … ADABAS was referenced in the Amazon press release and earnings announcement. Byron : Now, in an adjacent category to that, is this notion of cloud powering mobile and that relationship between server side capabilities and this intersection of SAS and mobile workers. Twice for retail.

Cloud 203

Cloud Scale Finance Retention 203

Chart Mogul

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Each of them will log in from their browser or their mobile or even both. This is what happened: The social media, brand recognition, and thought leadership results were mind-blowing. Imagine you have just 2 users. But those users are logged-in users, so you have their user_id, so you know it’s them.

Marketing 52

Marketing Technical Review Software Review Customer Lifetime Value 52

SaaStr

JULY 10, 2020

I’ve held a bunch of technology leadership roles in startups, in rocket ships and turnarounds, including about 10 years at Google, and just over three years leading efforts at Evernote. So over the course of those 20 or so odd years in technology leadership roles. Mobile apps and app development. E-commerce is on fire.

Scale 276

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