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Top SaaStr Posts and Videos of the Week: State of the Cloud, Hyperscaling at PagerDuty, Notion’s CRO, and More!

SaaStr

5 Tips To Minimize “Churn and Burn” Behavior in Your Sales Team. “Hyperscaling At Scale with PagerDuty’s CEO, Jennifer Tejada” A terrific session with PagerDuty’s and Sendgrid’s CEOs on how to keep a growth engine … growing. #3. Ok so what was Big on SaaStr.com this week?

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How Yelp drove down churn by building up customer success

Intercom, Inc.

That’s exactly how Yelp approached its growth journey, under the leadership of Senior Vice President and General Manager of Local Revenue Kayti Sullivan. Your connection to your users is the gasoline that fuels the engine of your business. Listen to the full episode above or check out Kayti’s key takeaways below.

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The Best of SaaS at YCombinator: A Deep Dive with the CEOs of Gusto, Amplitude and Plangrid (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Let’s find out from Sam Altman, President at YCombinator and CEOs, Tracy Young, Josh Reeves, and Spencer Skates. As part of the run up to 2021 SaaStr Annual in the SF Bay Area Sep 27-29, we’re taking a look back at some of our top sessions of all times. Get tickets here. Get tickets here. TRANSCRIPT.

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Scaling from $1 to $10M, an AMA with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin (Pod 573)

SaaStr

Jason recently opened up an AMA on Twitter Spaces to answer questions about scaling from $1M to $10M. Episode 573 of the podcast is an excerpt from the recording, and you can find the full transcript below. Jason Lemkin: Hey everybody. We did a good AMA on this scaling at SaaStr Europa in Barcelona, a couple weeks back. It was packed.

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ChurnZero’s 10 Customer Success Leaders to Watch in 2021

ChurnZero

Against the backdrop of wild economic uncertainty, Customer Success has been the failsafe of SaaS businesses that were blindsided by pandemic-induced churn and contraction. With Customer Success demand at an all-time high, we expect to see more of its leaders join the executive ranks in the coming months and years.

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CEOs of Zapier, Walkme and Dialpad: How to Build Your First Management Team (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

How can you recognize that a VP is great, not just good? As part of the run up to 2021 SaaStr Annual in the SF Bay Area Sep 27-29, we’re taking a look back at some of our top sessions of all times. Get best price tickets here!!! This session is particularly fun to look back on. And for good reason. Which role should you hire for first?

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Startup Best Practices 7 - How to Use Andy Grove's Stagger Chart to Build Predictability into a Startup

Tom Tunguz

Startups that have tuned their growth engines well enough to accurately forecast their growth, presuming these growth rates are attractive, will command much higher valuations in the market, simply because there is less risk in the company. Engineering and product teams set goals and deliver products on time. Predictability is sexy.