The cloud proves Einstein was right! Growing 3900% for dummies, Hashicorp files for IPO, and more...
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Into the Twitterverse 🐦🌌
Einstein was right! 👾
Hubspot proves Einstein’s long-standing thesis that compounding is the 8th wonder of the world ✨
How to grow 3900% in 15 months for Dummies 🔥
Here’s an excellent Twitter thread on how Dropbox and 6 other businesses used referrals to blitz scale ⚡️
SaaS markets always surprise us with their size! 😳
Why? Compounding! Just look at the earnings calls of these $ printing machines 👇🏻
AWS is growing at 39% YoY and accelerating! On a base of $64B revenue run rate 🤯
Azure is growing 48% YoY and accelerating! On a $35-40B run rate 🚀
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The Golden age of Product Management is here to stay 🤩
What are they up to? Here are 4 types of Product Work and the ‘PM’s’ who drive them
Growth Stories 🚀
How do you build the world's second-largest search platform? What are the growth strategies that powered this meteoric rise? 🤔
1/ Nailing the value prop! ⚡️
2/ Moving upmarket 🆙 $70k deals in the 1st yr was a clear sign!
3/ PLG sales + outbound + partnerships 💰
The Loom story is now available on Spotify, ApplePodcasts, and more 🤩. Tune in to learn how you can 'land' and 'expand' to a $1.5B valuation! 🤯! Follow us on Spotify for regular updates 😇
Fundraising, Venture Capital and Exits 🤑
HashiCorp files for IPO this week triggering waves of FOMO from investors who “missed out" 😬
Expensify now belongs to the people! 🌐
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Mother of Series Bs 😳 Lusha raised a $205M Series B at a $1.5B valuation! 🙌🏻
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Launches, events, and releases
Notion is Macbook M1 ready. Get ready for some real speed ⚡️
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Sorry Kim K and co, we have a new favorite reality show 🤩
Nerding out on PLG 🤓📚
“An incredible lesson of being early, being right, and staying the course as the market evolved and changed and got even bigger.”
How Expensify shifted gears to a 60% YoY revenue growth 🤯
1/ Keeping it lean - $1M ARR/employee
2/ PLGGGGG! 🔥
3/ Move money to make money 💰
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