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The Compound Startup Advantage: Why The CEO of Rippling Believes Focus Is Overrated

SaaStr

Conrad personally runs payroll for Rippling’s 2,000 employees across a dozen countries as a “part-time job,” while UK companies with even small teams often spend 5-6 days monthly just managing payroll. The company now has three distinct “clouds”: HR Cloud : Traditional HR and payroll functions.

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Things May Snap Back Fast. So Take Advantage Of This Crazy World Now.

SaaStr

Things were slow for a while during the last downturn, but then the Cloud just picked itself up and … ran. Most tradeshows and events in China are running at their maximum allowed capacity pre-Covid, with the delta being mainly from lack of travel. Do a lot more Business Development and Partnerships. Finish this exercise.

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The Secrets to Building a World-Class, $2.3 Billion Inside Sales Team (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

sales team. We created and served up apps via the cloud on a subscription basis. I did all sorts of things there from sales, to project management, to running the engineering team, hiring. This is when I got hooked on tech, and SaaS, and cloud, and making things faster and better. Want to see more content like this?

Scale 294
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How to Win Big by Serving High-Growth Startups with Zendesk’s Head of Startups

SaaStr

You don’t want conflict with the sales team. How do you leverage that offer to develop relationships with partners? This is where they started, but startups weren’t adopting the product as much with a discount, and there was a lot of conflict with the sales team. During SaaStr Annual, Zendesk Sr.

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Scaling Success: Digital Entrepreneurship and SaaS Exits

FastSpring

and now very big in the case of, say, a zero, which is cloud accounting software. I ran one of the fastest growing online travel agencies, of course is ecommerce here in Australia called Luxury Escapes. So one of the best tactics that most people won’t do is to point out the weaknesses in the business.

Scale 120
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SaaStr Classic: Jyoti Bansal of Harness.io and AppDynamics; Dev Ittycheria of MongoDB (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

You can have the great product and a great team, but the market of small or very niche. The second one is the team, obviously depending on how earlier the team has a huge factor because you may be so early in your journey that there’s nothing else to point to, but the track record of the team. Jyoti Bansal: Yeah.

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Norman Crowley on uncovering the business opportunities in tackling climate change

Intercom, Inc.

The Cool Planet Group CEO has had a fascinating career to date, having started and sold three businesses for over three-quarters of a billion dollars before he was forty – including Inspired Gaming and The Cloud. We were fairly poor. So I started to develop a hankering for making money at an early age. Norman: Yeah.