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Okta’s Playbook to PLG, Developer Experience, and Enterprise ARR

SaaStr

Okta’s VP of Engineering, Monica Bajaj, and Senior Director of Platform Product Marketing, Priya Ramamurthi, share Okta’s playbook to PLG, developer experience, and Enterprise ARR. How do you build a stellar developer experience and continue to scale when the user base skyrockets overnight? Let’s start with product-led growth (PLG).

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10 technical strategies to avoid when scaling your startup (and 5 to embrace)

Intercom, Inc.

While that doesn’t sound very bad, according to Corey Quinn, the world’s most notorious Cloud Economist, it goes against best practices or “sensible defaults” and is “ the worst practice to be avoided by default.” .” But over time, we noticed that teams hated working on these services.

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Veeva: The Biggest Vertical SaaS Success Story of All Time (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

If you don’t have tickets, lock in Early Bird pricing today and bring your team! When you get that thing where you’re a rational person and you think it will be great and 99 out of 100 people think it’s bad, that’s when you have opportunity. I was a software developer, a product person. Get tickets here.

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Twilio: The First $100m+ ARR with Jeff Lawson, CEO/Co Founder (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Twilio is a cloud communications platform that allows software developers to embed communications into the apps that they’re building. He said, “I feel so bad. Jeff : I felt really bad, because you plan way ahead. For real, why is the developer market bigger today? ” I’ve never heard that.

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Lean UX author Jeff Gothelf on why design must have a seat at the table

Intercom, Inc.

If an organization’s founders aren’t designers and don’t come from a background where well-designed products played a key role in their lives, it can often be the last discipline to be brought onboard the team. On a bad day, a lot more of it got thrown away. My responsibility was to build a design team in that new agile way of working.

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Who is Marty Cagan: Background, Books, Product Management Tips, and More

User Pilot

In many ways, he has shaped how successful products are built and how teams can be organized to work toward excellence. If you’re interested in learning more about Marty, including his background and top blog and podcast recommendations, continue reading ahead. Marty Cagan is a popular name in the product management world.

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Overengineering 101: What Is It and How Can Product Managers Avoid It?

User Pilot

Developing and releasing sophisticated products with all the bells and whistles imaginable might seem like a great idea. After all, you want your newly released software to be as good as it gets when it’s finally launched, right? Poor prioritization and external pressure are also common causes. Book the demo!