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Dec 2024
Turf Wars, Tree Men & Murder: Inside the world of Christmas tree selling in NYC
Christmas trees are big business in NYC. Running a tree lot takes grit and experience, and even then, it's a tough network to break into. All of the lots in the city are divided into separate territories, owned by only a handful of entrepreneurs. We spent the day working for NYC' ... Show More
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Oct 2024
What does winning a James Beard Award really mean for chefs?
Often called the Oscars of the food industry, the James Beard Foundation Awards are among the most coveted for chefs in America. But what's sold and packaged as prestige can sometimes become a distraction from managing the business that got you there. Host Matt Brown is joined by ... Show More
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Oct 2024
Where do tennis balls go when they die?
Every year, the US throws out roughly 125 million tennis balls. That's enough to fill 21 Boeing 737s to the brim. And until recently, tennis balls were impossible to recycle. That's right, every ball ever produced would eventually end up in a landfill where it could take 400 year ... Show More
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The Art of Selling Enterprise Software (with ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott)
We sit down with ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott for a masterclass in the art of enterprise sales — a topic where Bill ranks as one of the all-time greats by any measure. Bill started his career as a bag-carrying salesman at Xerox in New York City (alongside Howard Schultz!) back i ... Show More
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Sep 2019
Lululemon’s Big Move
Lululemon jumps on strong growth in men’s sales and an improved outlook. Docusign delivers big returns on e-signatures. And Slack slips after its first earnings report as a public company. Analysts Andy Cross, Ron Gross, and Jason Moser discuss those stories and weigh in on the l ... Show More
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Jun 2021
SaaStr 460: SaaStr CEO and Founder, Jason Lemkin, and Klaviyo CEO, Andrew Bialecki, on the $9.5B Revolution in eCommerce: Part One
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What does success look like for SaaS founders? Whatever the answer is, it rarely happens overnight. Meet Klaviyo –– a heavyweight industry player in the next generation of eCommerce and customer communication. In this podcast, Klaviyo CEO Andrew ... Show More
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20VC The Memo: Inside the Growth Engines of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Instacart with the Growth Leaders Who Built Them; How Instagram Went from 440M to 1BN, How Twitter Changing Their Signup Flow was a Needlemover and How Removing Card Payment Requ
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SaaStr 028: Eloqua & Influitive's Mark Organ on Scaling Eloqua Into A Global Business & Why Customer Success Is The Bed Rock For All SaaS Businesses
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20VC: Slack Founder Stewart Butterfield on Leadership Styles, Decision-Making, The 3 Levels of Wealth, IPOs vs Direct Listings & Why Effective Entrepreneurship is Like Parkour
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226. Helping India’s e-commerce leapfrog into the future
<p><a href="https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/innovation-and-growth">McKinsey innovation</a> leader <a href="https://www.mckinsey.com/our-people/erik-roth">Erik Roth</a> speaks with Shiprocket cofounder and CEO <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/saahilgoel?originalSubd ... Show More
39m 27s
Feb 2021
Bill Smead, Smead Capital Management - There’s Less Respect For Stock Picking Experts Right At This Moment Than There Has Been Since The Peak Of The Dot-Com Bubble | #290
In episode 290, we welcome our guest, Bill Smead, the Chief Investment Officer for Smead Capital Management. In today’s episode, Bill explains why he believes the market is undergoing a tide change. He starts with a look back on the 2000 tech bubble and uses Cisco as an example o ... Show More
53 m
Nov 2023
Bill McDermott
ServiceNow Chairman and CEO Bill McDermott talks about what it takes to lead a successful technology company, the future of AI and his entrepreneurial teenage years. He speaks on "The David Rubenstein Show: Peer-to-Peer Conversations." This interview was recorded August 7 in New ... Show More
23m 58s
Bill Macaitis knows a little bit about growth. In his time as Zendesk CMO, he helped take the company from venture-funded startup through an IPO resulting in a $1.7 billion market cap. When he led online marketing and operations at Salesforce, he helped grow revenues from $900M to $3 billion. Today he serves as CMO at Slack, the hyper-growth messaging startu ... Show More
<p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/onecaseman">Casey Winters</a> is the Chief Product Officer at <a href= "https://www.eventbrite.com/">Eventbrite</a> where he leads the PM, product design, research, and growth marketing teams. Prior to Eventbrite, Casey ... Show More
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Super excited to welcome a heavy weight of the SaaS industry today as we have</span> <a href= "https://twitter.com/markorgan"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Mark Organ</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, Founder & CEO at Influitive. I ... Show More
<p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/stewart">Stewart Butterfield</a> is the Founder & CEO @ <a href="https://slack.com/">Slack</a>, the leading channel-based messaging platform, used by millions to align their teams, unify their systems and drive their bu ... Show More
