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From 0 to $500 Million ARR in 6 years: Learnings from Innovating in Underserved Markets with Samsara CPO Kiren Sekar (Pod 549 + Video)

SaaStr

Samsara’s tools allow customers to provide feedback directly to the company, allowing customers to be proactive in communicating their thoughts about the product. Before starting Samsara, Sekar worked with the same founding team at Meraki, which focused on wireless device connectivity. Here are a couple of ideas.

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The Benefits of Digital Disbursements

USIO

Contactless payments is a newer payment method where a device will communicate wirelessly with a point of scale (POS) instead of having a more physical interaction. Overall, digital disbursements offer a more efficient, cost-effective, and secure way to make payments, benefiting both businesses and their recipients.

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Glossary: 117 software-led payments terms to know

Payrix

Authentication The process of assuring that data has come from its claimed source, or a process of corroborating the claimed identity of a communicating party. Voice authorization An approval response obtained through interactive communication between an issuer and an acquirer or the International Automated Referral Service.

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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. At the end of the day, Twilio still sells communications, AWS still sells servers, but the way we’re selling it is different than how it was done in yesteryear. I know how to do that.

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Digital Payments: 12 Digital Payment Options to Consider Accepting in Your Business

Stax

mPOS systems work through smartphones, tablets, and other wireless devices to accept payments from anywhere. Wireless devices allow business owners more flexibility. Contactless payments are powered by near-field communication (NFC) technology. Contactless payments are powered by Near-Field Communication (NFC) technology.

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We should be living in the future already

Tom Tunguz

But we aren’t living in this world yet because it requires the synchronized deployment of three of the most advanced technologies developed in the past 20 years: wireless communication, smart phones and machine learning. I’m asking my coffee machine to think like me, so that I don’t have to.

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Investing in Prepared

Andreessen Horowitz

With smartphones now virtually ubiquitous, however, 70% of 911 calls are now made with wireless phones. It also provides real-time translation in more than 140 languages and AI transcription of calls so that operators can seamlessly communicate with the caller while documenting the most important information.