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Motivate your star performers with meaningful career conversations

Intercom, Inc.

Imagine walking into the office one morning and having your star team member ask if you have a few minutes to talk. These create more meaningful relationships with people on your team, uncover what motivates them and as a result increase their impact and engagement in their current role. What’s your current development focus?

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Drata’s CEO Adam Markowitz on creating a culture of cyber security

Intercom, Inc.

Cyber attacks have gone up 125% from the previous year, and with companies shifting to partial or fully remote settings, it shows no sign of slowing down. Cyber security and compliance, it turns out, is in demand. Portfolium was eventually acquired, but the team behind it never stopped thinking about a better way to do it.

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Avoid Trapdoor Decisions: 5 Lessons Learned from Scaling Stripe (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. Write down your principles (like your mission statement) and use it very early for guiding culture and decision making.

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Blueprint for Early Stage SaaS Companies [Webinar Recap]

SaaSOptics

To scale an early-stage company, you need to focus on the following core areas of your business: Financial Core —to create a streamlined quote-to-cash process. Customer Core —to maintain and develop customer relationships. Poor financial records are not something you can run away from. HR Core —to manage payroll and employees.

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Elad Gil on catapulting into hyper growth

Intercom, Inc.

Acquisitions can help fuel growth, but often go awry when the company fails to explicitly instruct their internal teams to step aside so that the new hires can do their jobs. Culture is the set of relationships people in the company have to each other – and the unwritten set of rules they live by – and it’s going to evolve over time.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Justin Bedecarre, Jen Nguyen, Jason Lemkin, and Aaron Levie

SaaStr

And honestly, we’re limiting ourselves by proximity on recruiting a diverse best-in-class team. You have to continually take a pulse of your team and how they’re feeling. Aaron Levie: Everybody had their digital team. At the exact same time, that company hadn’t moved basic applications to the cloud.

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How to Acquire a $400B World-Class Company by WePay (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Bill Clerico : We kind of instantly became one of the best funded FinTech companies in the Valley. We grew our team by 50% this year, continuing to grow. A lot of companies show trillion dollar market sizes. So I think like anything it’s been good and bad. And I think our team has done that too.