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Veeva: The Biggest Vertical SaaS Success Story of All Time (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

I was a software developer, a product person. Jason : You resisted that, and then usually there’s another time, as you start to scale, whether it’s 20 million, 30 million, when you want to get ahead of the curve, and also sometimes your inefficiencies increase, right? I specifically didn’t want to be a CEO.

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Mental Models to Help You Grow

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

One of the biggest challenges businesses face when they grow is scaling effective , autonomous and quick decision-making. Again, it was an easy to use model which scaled effective decision-making. Economies of scale. Jobs to be Done Theory The Jobs to be Done Theory was developed by Clay Christiensen of Harvard Business School.

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3 Unusual Drivers of Early-Stage Growth

OpenView Labs

I saw this as a client partner and then regional managing director at an eBusiness firm that scaled from 0 to 2,000 people in three years, organically. The same was true when I ran the People function at a software development consultancy that doubled its headcount to ~100 while reducing attrition from 40% to 5% voluntary in 18 months.

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Tabular: Turning Your Data Swamp into a Data Lakehouse with Apache Iceberg

Clouded Judgement

If you don’t want to manage all of the infrastructure around Iceberg (plus allocating headcount to do this!) One key component of a modern cloud-native data architecture is the data lake - which allows for cost-efficient storage of large amounts of data used for analytics and ML at scale.

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How Stack Overflow Harnesses the Power of Flexible Leadership

OpenView Labs

Take Stack Overflow , the world’s largest software developer network, community, and platform, serving close to 100 million monthly visitors. It made sense for us to start in the enterprise, because we already had a community and a platform that was operating at the scale of 100 million monthly visitors, so—why not?”

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After Selling For $580M, Here’s What I Learned About SaaS During My Time At Buildium

Outseta

They were clearly property management and software development, and as someone that was hired to accelerate Buildium’s growth I immediately saw countless opportunities to grow the company by moving into new markets. Having just finished business school, my brain was wired in MBA mode—what were our core competencies as a company?

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Building the Right Team to Succeed With Gainsight

Valuize Consulting

Specifically, we break down the resourcing models needed for architecting, developing and administering the Gainsight CS platform based on the size of your Customer Success (CS) team. The dynamics and needs related to how CS teams achieve these outcomes evolve as CS organizations scale.