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The Keys to Getting to $500M ARR In Just 7 Years with Attentive’s CEO

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Weaponize Customer Success Align on specific metrics Build education systems Create community Drive organic growth 3. Turn Your Customers Into Your Marketing Engine The second breakthrough was making customer success the core growth engine.

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How Dialpad Hit $300M ARR by Building Their Own AI Stack: 5 Key Learnings

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At SaaStr AI Day 2025, Jim Palmer, Dialpad’s Chief AI Officer (and co-founder of TalkIQ, which Dialpad acquired), shared the tactical playbook they used to build and scale their AI capabilities. Here are the key learnings every SaaS company should know. Make this decision early.

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The Enterprise Journey: 8 Keys to Going Upmarket Successfully with Workiva’s CEO Julie Iskow

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If both succeed, you’re ready to scale. Focus on: Building robust security and compliance (SOC 2, ISO 27001) Automating customer onboarding/offboarding Creating enterprise-grade support processes Developing procurement relationship expertise Having clear data handling procedures 5.

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Scaling to $150M ARR and Beyond with Grafana Labs and Lightspeed

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Scaling to $150M ARR and beyond is no simple task. Will this change as Grafana Labs scales? Grafana Labs still has features and capabilities they hold back that appeal to large enterprises, such as things around security and compliance. But they’re still one of the last remaining open-source companies at scale.

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From Startup to $500M CARR: How Braze Scaled a Growth and CS Team

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From startup to $500M CARR, Spencer Burke, SVP of Growth at Braze, shares how Braze scaled a growth and customer success team. In this AI moment we’re in, there are still many moments in scaling a company where intuition still matters. You don’t have to leave as the organization scales. This isn’t new.

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How to Scale a Platform and Ecosystem to $10B with Atlassian CRO Cameron Deatsch (Pod 611 + Video)

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Scale-ups are exciting. Scaling to satisfy customers’ demands depends on innovation and foresight combined with enterprise-ready technology and the right partners. On top of considerable dedication, creating a scale-up requires a functional edge—a unique and unreplicable capability compared to the players in the industry.

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The Secrets to Aligning GTM Teams & Finance to Scale by 10X with Subskribe Founder Prakash Raina and Okta VP Finance Leslie Hui (Video)

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These two departments are a SaaS company’s most important; without their alignment, there is no growth or scale. While enabling your go-to-market teams, you must be mindful of the future state of scaling. Strategize so you avoid over-customizing a monster system that you won’t be able to scale in the future.

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