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Okta’s Playbook to PLG, Developer Experience, and Enterprise ARR

SaaStr

Okta’s VP of Engineering, Monica Bajaj, and Senior Director of Platform Product Marketing, Priya Ramamurthi, share Okta’s playbook to PLG, developer experience, and Enterprise ARR. How do you build a stellar developer experience and continue to scale when the user base skyrockets overnight? Why are we talking about PLG?

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How to Hire A Great VP Sales: The Full Video and Transcript

SaaStr

As part of that, we wanted to look back at some of our most iconic content and sessions. One of the first what How to Hire a Great VP of Sales at the New York Enterprise Tech Meet-Up (thank you to John Lehr and Work-Bench for setting this up). I’m doing this thing for the first time. SaaStr is Turning 10!

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What Happens When You Hire the Wrong VP

SaaStr

You know how everyone says you'll never look and wish you'd kept a bad VP as long as you did? That when you make a mis-hire, you'll always look back and say you should have made a change 3-4 month earlier? A lot of classic SaaStr advice has been how to spot the best potential VPs. When to hire them.

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The Founder’s Guide to Developer-led Growth with WorkOS (Video)

SaaStr

Developers act, think, and behave differently than your average customer. As an API-first company, WorkOS focuses on selling primarily to developers. Doing Business with Developers. Developers haven’t typically been the buyers in enterprise software, so why should you build for developers?

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3 key takeaways from International Women’s Day 2021

Intercom, Inc.

It’s not just that more diverse teams are more effective and more profitable ( though they are ); but, as Karen Peacock, our CEO, says , “It’s just the right thing to do.”. That was a shocker for me because I didn’t hear that language growing up and it wasn’t a part of my scope,” she says. And I believed it. I really like working.

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Management coach Lara Hogan on perfecting the leadership craft

Intercom, Inc.

Each person on your team has different needs, responds to feedback in different ways and evolves in different trajectories – and management should always reflect that. Even when you reach the perfect team dynamic – a new hire or budget cut can easily throw things off balance. What does good, actionable feedback look like?

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Intercom’s Rich Archbold on how to run less software

Intercom, Inc.

It means reducing choices amongst engineering teams and standardizing technology, so our team can spend as much time as possible delivering value to customers. Rich Archbold , Senior Director of Engineering, has been at the forefront of codifying and scaling this philosophy over the past few years.