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murfpersonalblog · 1 year ago

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I think RELATABILITY has been a huge factor in how AMC!Louis has been received, and yes, a lot of it boils down to the race of the audiences; but there's also the expectations the audience had going in. I have way more respect for the book fans who gave the show a chance, rather than boycotting it straight out, or just hate watching it & complaining that their favorite slaveowner wasn't biting some black prostitute's tongue out of her mouth while moping about how hard being a rich white man in America is. 🙄 The recent post about race in Gothic Literature and some of the deeply disturbing responses (by non-black people) just highlighted how deeply rooted people's biases are when it comes to vampire media.

Naturally, what AMC did with LDPDL was gonna rub some ppl the wrong way, and I love it, we need MORE of this, consciously writing black characters AS black people with black experiences, for ALL audiences. Cuz they ARE essentially the same character, op, yes. In ESSENCE, black/white LDPDL have the same narrative DNA. It's the CONTEXT that's different, not the CORE character. And it's that context that I think has people freaking out--if AMC had gone the Netflix/Bridgerton way & just inserted a black man into 1800s slavery-time NOLA & said turn your brain off & suspend your disbelief!, a lot of ppl might've had less issues! Look at these poll results--ppl have more complaints about Ep5's DV & SV than ANY other changes thus far. Context matters--and IMO it heightens the HORROR, when the power imbalances b/t Loustat are racialized, and Jim Crow NOLA & interracial relationships & black queerness is taken seriously by the writers--forcing people out of their comfort zones of watching the typical Bill Comptons & Edward Cullens & Louis de Pointe du Lacs--to think more critically about the world outside the all-white microcosm that Hollywood always pushes.

I've said 100 times how I've hated book!Louis since day one. I never liked him, or enjoyed IWTV as a book. (I only read the book cuz I love the movie (and my aunt was a diehard AR fan and told me to read the books), but it took me ages to actually finish it, same with TVL. I didn't actually start really liking VC till QotD, TVA, etc). I love Lestat & Claudia & Armand, but Louis' always been a hard pass for me.

IMO book!Louis had no personality or motivation. Other than Paul there wasn't really much to his backstory (and the movie eliminated ALL of that, even!). Yes, Louis was the textbook definition of DEPRESSED, but while that's interesting and dynamic to see on screen, it just wasn't fun for me to read about for a whole book; him going on about how miserable his life was, even when he was still ALIVE 🤦‍♀️, when he had been given EVERY advantage to make things BETTER for himself. It's classic Greek tragedy: the doomed protagonist w/ a fatal character flaw. But juxtaposed w/ powerhouses like Patroclus/Lestat & Cassandra/Claudia & Hector/Armand & Marius/Odysseus, Achilles/Louis came off like a whiny spoiled baby.

NGL, I deeply empathized with book!Lestat's frustration: Louis' a gorgeous young rich affluent educated white man living Down South, and now he has supernatural powers! What on earth are you complaining about? Vampirism really does give him the keys to the city! It's white privilege x1000, totally WASTED. It's just like seeing news articles about spoiled rich kids doing crime or OD'ing cuz they hate their life, like.... SPARE ME. 🙄😒 Go to school, get a job, join a book club, do some arts and crafts, start a charity, go on a pilgrimage, or SOMETHING--stop wallowing in misery in your million dollar mansion and touch some frikkin grass, Louis.

Like, ok, I get that Gothic/Romanticism (in the Byronic sense, not romance) is all about having some rich powerful man be eternally morose & tortured & self-absorbed, wandering the heaths yearning for times long since past, and doing eff all to actually change & only making everything worse. There's a bit of schadenfreude, seeing Dorian Grey get his comeuppance. But I made the instantaneous decision to never watch or read Twilight once I heard that some 100+ year old dude was still in high school, like omfg WHAT? 🤨🤢 But on the flip side, I relish the ironic comedy of WWDITS, w/ vamps self aware that they've been stuck in cycles of perpetual self destruction; even deliberately leaning into those toxic tropes; never sincerely committing to doing anything that changes/improves their situation. Cuz they're VAMPIRES--(unlike Laszlo/Lestat & Nadja/Gabrielle & Colin/Marius, Nandor/Louis/Armand got the rude awakening that even the Wellness Center was a deathtrap). No matter what, in the end they keep coming back to that house--it's clean & remodeled one season & then in utter shambles the next season, over & over, the carousel comes back around again.

WWDITS directly nods to IWTV through Guillermo's obsession with Armand/Antonio Banderas in the movie. I empathized with Armand in TVA so much, cuz he was a kid literally ripped from his life; a stranger in a strange new world starting from scratch without ever really knowing who or what he was. 😔 As fundamentally flawed as Armand was, a lot of his problems weren't entirely his fault. The Children of Satan mentally broke him to the point that he'd convinced himself that he didn't DESERVE to be part of the outside world or take advantage of his vampiric privilege. Marius was all mad like oh, Armand wasn't actually chained up, he was free to leave at anytime and get help and get better~! And I was like MORON: he had to be indoctrinated for 200+ YEARS before they trusted him enough to let him take over the cult! That's how lost in the sauce he was! He was so low that he actually thought LOUIS' depressed AF arse was a step UP, like HUH? 😅

But even with all the horrors Armand had suffered (or perhaps because of them), he still hungered for growth (stunted as he was as an eternal teen), so he built Night City, Trinity Gate, etc. But Louis wanted none of it, like WTF--I was relieved when Armand dumped/divorced him! (The movie flips it--as if! Louis wouldn't leave a house on frikkin fire w/out someone there to pull him out. 🙄) The older & more vampiric Louis became, the more miserable he was, and then Merrick happened, and everything hit the fan.

A large part of the VC's allure for me was AR herself, and how she wove her personal life into her stories--she was Louis, Lestat was her IRL husband, Claudia was her IRL daughter, etc. So I sympathized with Louis WAY more after he lost Claudia; his sadness as a grieving parent made way more sense. But the rest? 😒 AMC made Louis so much RICHER on the show. He's still a depressed submissive passive empty husk, but he's more CONTEXTUALIZED. We get to see his full devolution--from the much fuller human backstory, to an actual romantic courtship, to his series of tragedies & losses, and having the true horror of Lestat finally be revealed. I can FINALLY understand why Louis was so depressed/stuck/trapped--America's racist homophobic classist "primitive society's picked him clean," his human family is still alive & he wanted to be closeby, Claudia ran away and he's empty nesting, his husband lovebombs then cheats at the turn of a dime, and then he's too in love / emotionally stuck when it's time to step up & leave. SAME! But different. And IMO: better.

Okay, but do tell me and explain to me from the grass root about the sudden hate of the man one and only Louis de Pointe Du Lac from the book Interview with the Vampire??? Like doesn't the show and it's fandom constantly told us that the show is the same to the books and the characters are the exact copy of their book counterpart. So how come many/some show fans who get to read the books hate him if they're the exact same characters? How you gonna love one and hate the other if the continuous preaching of similarity and faithfulness is true like whatttty? How did anyone come up to that I'm genuinely and seriously confused.

#louis de pointe du lac #louis de pointe du black #racial inequality #white privilege

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eeraygun · 4 years ago

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devcclub · 5 years ago

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Game of Thrones deleted scenes that change the show - let's take a look back. The following extended or deleted scenes range from intriguing to pleasing to essential – and all of them provide fresh insight that would be lost to the sands of time if it wasn't for good old YouTube. by De VC Club

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recalculandoblog · 3 years ago

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Naturaleza

Confiada en mis años de entrenamiento continuo, y mi natural inclinación por caminar, asumo con entusiasmo que todos los lunes podré estar a la altura del ecléctico grupo argentino de hiking, que propone caminatas por las sierras madrileñas.

Compuesto en su totalidad por mujeres de un amplio abanico etario, las mas jóvenes de 20 y tantos, y las “más mayores” (como dicen acá, obviando la redundancia) de 60 y pico; yo calzo en medio, con mis 40 y pico prontos a caducar.

Las primeras caminatas me las perdí gracias a mi refinada torpeza, que me recluyó hsta q mi nariz fractutada sanase y mis facciones fueran ATP (apta todo público). Más cuando cedió la inflamación, me sumé confiada a la cuadrilla nómade.

Increíble es descubrir las maravillas naturales que sin vanidad conviven en las afueras de esta ciudad, con sus celebres iconos.

A tan solo 30 o 40 minutos de la, x ej, afamada Plaza Mayor, se abre un escenario tan disímil de aquel, que a uno le da la impresión de haberse ido a otra parte del mundo.

La oferta de caminos entre cascadas de agua prístina y paisajes serranos, son casi tan variados como los productos ofrecidos en el HiperCor.

Teniendo una guía que no podia llamarse de otra manera mas que Flor 🌷, nos dejamos llevar como infantes de sala de 5 por su maestra, entre la naturaleza descubierta.

Algunas llevan bastones para facilitarse el esfuerzo, otras, como yo, optimistas, solo llevamos el taper infaltable para la hora del pic nic.

4 horas nos esperan de subidas y bajadas, de piedritas que se cuelan en las zapatillas por la mala elección de unas medias insuficientemente cortas, de compañeras de ritmos cambiantes, y de cotorreo infinito.

A mi, lo único que no se me cansa nunca es la lengua.

El resto de los músculos del cuerpo se me van agarrotando sin conciencia a medida q la charla avanza, y el camino se eleva.

A vcs, hsta debemos usar las manos para adentrarnos entre las piedras.

Algunas sacan fotos q luego comparten en el infaltable grupo de Wapp.

Otras nos dan tips de vida y comida saludable. Tmb hay recomendaciones de electrodomésticos, universidades europeas, y trámites para poder viajar en esta época Covid.

La foto grupal, en manos de Mariana y su trípode, es la excusa que nos permite escuchar el silencio durante los únicos 10sg del temporizador (aunq algunas ventrílocuas, hablan aun sonriendo y sin mover los labios).

Siento q me renuevo cada lunes.

Y lo digo en el más rústico de los sentidos.

Como un peeling corporal, me agoto, y renazco.

Mis compañeras “mas mayores” nunca faltan, llegan puntuales, no se quejan, y terminan las caminatas c una sonrisa.

Yo, arrastrando los pies que me laten como si el corazón se hubiera desplazado de lugar, llenos de ampollas y piedritas insolentes, me desplomo en el asiento del auto, sin mas fuerzas q para apretar el botón de encendido.

Me pregunto si es q estoy apunada 🏔, o es el calendario q me juega una mala pasada? Pienso en todas las clases de BodyCombat tiradas a la basura en 15km de caminata.

Me anoté en mi antiguo gimnasio, estimulada por mi marido que insistió en aprovechar la promo que ofrece el Holmes Place, devenido en otra empresa a la q le urge recaptar clientes.

Mi condición antes de decidirme fue saber si los q atienden en el bar, tdavia siguen siendo los mismos. Así de enfocada estoy al ejercicio físico.

Es q esos tíos hacen de mis visitas al gimnasio una experiencia diferenciada, sobretodo porq los bocatas que ponen son la bomba 🥪

Que al final, de todos los grupos q tngo, con el q más disfruto es con las del Book Club, que nos reunimos a leer y comer masitas secas. No dicen por ahi q hay q cultivar el espíritu?

Cdo el cuerpo no t acompaña, el espíritu es el único recóndito lugar dnd uno puede recuperar su vitalidad. Total, no pesa, no acumula grasa, no se arruga, no le apreta el cinturón.

Me estoy por anotar en un curso de filosofía antigua, otro de cultura induísta, y alguno de budismo. Creo q no necesito elevar mi ritmo cardiaco para ninguno de ellos.

Cdo tnga 60, y me sea permitido agitarme x subir lo empinado del camino, llevaré un bastón orgullosa de ser tan intrépida.

“Observa profundamente la naturaleza, y entonces entenderás todo mucho mjor” A Einstein

Por ahora, me voy derecho al supermercado, a comprar las french biscuits St Michel, de manteca y sal que durante la caminata advirtieron eran veneno para el cuerpo, y a mandarme audios c mi amiga Galia desde LA (una de las mas viejas q tengo; no por edad, sino por antigüedad) mientras comemos las sobras de la comida chatarra q dejan nuestros hijos y fantaseamos con encontrarnos en Madrid, no a caminar, sino a tomar unos Margaritas bien frozen 🍸

“Observa profundamente la naturaleza, y entonces entenderás todo mucho mjor” A Einstein

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lawrencekliebert · 3 years ago

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The Best 26 SaaS & Subscriptions Podcasts to Listen to in 2021

You may have had a friend or a peer mention their newfound passion for podcasts. Or that person might be you, and it’s totally understandable. Podcasts have been around for quite some time, but only recently have they started to gain tremendous popularity, and that is because they are such a convenient way to share and retrieve content.

Lately, people have become more and more focused on multitasking and aiming to finish as many tasks as possible in a small amount of time. And, to state the obvious, they’ve become very proficient in doing so.

Taking this into consideration, it’s not surprising that one of the main reasons why podcasts have become so popular is their biggest advantage: being able to listen to them anywhere, anytime, and via any medium.

That means you can listen to a podcast while you’re on the go, finishing up your tasks, or out on a walk, just by hitting the play button on your smartphone, computer, or tablet. The best of both worlds! Staying informed and up to date with new trends from the SaaS industry and learning new strategies has never been easier than now.

According to SEMRush, 2021 holds the record for hours spent listening to podcasts, with 15 billion hours compared to 12 billion hours just two years ago. And the year hasn’t even ended yet! And Statista’s research shows that by the year 2023, the number of monthly podcast listeners in the United States will likely hit 164 million.

SaaS and Subscription podcasts offer a wide range of opportunities for discovering new ideas, staying up to date with trends, and even learning new insights and tips from the experts who host or are interviewed for the shows.

So, if you’ve just discovered this new world of podcasts, or you’re in search of new content to listen to, we’ve made a list of the best 26 SaaS and Subscriptions podcasts that you definitely don’t want to miss.

Bonus: Looking for more podcasts to listen to? Check out our list of Best eCommerce Podcasts to listen in 2021.

1. The SaaS Podcast

The SaaS Podcast is the go-to podcast if you’re looking to scale your SaaS business. Omer Khan, the host of the podcast and the Founder of SaaS Club, offers you in-depth interviews with proven SaaS founders and entrepreneurs that will help you launch and grow your SaaS business. Tune in every Wednesday to listen to the new episodes!

Notable episodes:

How to Create SaaS Buyer Personas and Produce Better Content – with Adrienne Barnes

How to Craft a Sales Narrative for Your SaaS Product – with Pete Kazanjy

A Guide to SaaS Customer Success: Reduce Churn & Grow Revenue – with Nick Mehta

2. SaaS Breakthrough

Hosted by David Abrams, the SaaS Breakthrough podcast offers an inside look into SaaS companies and their marketing techniques straight from the source: the marketers who are in the trenches, experimenting on a daily basis to grow their MRR and build top businesses. If you’re interested in all the marketing SaaS trends and tips and tricks to boost your SaaS business, you’ll definitely need to listen to this podcast.

Notable episodes:

How SEMrush Went from Challenger Brand to SEO Market Leader

How Wishpond Recreated their Sales Approach with a Hybrid SaaS

How Help Scout Is Building Evergreen Marketing Assets with Super Compelling Content

3. The Official SaaStr Podcast

The Official SaaStr Podcast, hosted by Amelia Ibarra, SVP at SaaStr, is an all-in-one podcast that tackles topics such as customer growth, scaling SaaS business, subscription, and retention. The podcast offers insightful interviews with the most prominent operators and investors, letting listeners discover their tips, tactics, and strategies to attain success in the fiercely competitive world of SaaS. Check it out!

Notable episodes:

SaaStr Podcast #407 with The Creative Curve Author Allen Gannett: “The Secrets of Market Timing and How to Develop the Right Idea, at the Right Time”

SaaStr Podcast #396: Buying Patterns in the Enterprise: Who’s Really Buying and Why?

SaaStr Podcast 443: Building Your Marketing to $100M with Snowflake CMO Denise Persson

4. Protect the Hustle

ProfitWell’s Patrick Campbell, the host of the Protect the Hustle podcast, explores the truth behind the strategy and tactics of those scaling in SaaS. In each episode, Patrick interviews experts who share their know-how on B2B SaaS growth. Basically, ProfitWell supplies a team of advisors to guide you, all at the press of the play button. The podcast publishes fresh new episodes every Tuesday, so make sure to give it a listen.

Notable episodes:

S03 – E01 – April Dunford on why positioning is everything

S03 – E07 – Hubspot’s Kieran Flanagan on the evolution of growth

S02 – E06 – Intercom’s Des Traynor, Steve Blank: How to do Customer Research

5. The ProductLed Podcast

Looking to build a SaaS subscription business with boosted sales and top revenue? Well, look no further, because the weekly ProductLed Podcast has a wide range of interviews with both product-led growth leaders and practitioners who have real knowledge to share on what it takes to use their product to grow a business. Give it a try!

Notable episodes:

How to Start and Scale a Growth Team

Product-Led Experiments to Increase Activation & Retention

How To Generate High-Impact Growth Ideas

6. Growth Marketing Today

Hosted by Ramli John, Growth Marketing Today is a weekly podcast that uncovers the proven step-by-step marketing processes and systems from each of its guests, so you can apply the lessons in order to accelerate the growth of your company. Whether you’re a marketer, founder, consultant, or simply passionate about the SaaS industry and marketing, this podcast gives you the chance to learn marketing strategies in detail from today’s top marketers. Make sure you don’t miss it!

Notable episodes:

A Serial Entrepreneur’s Guide to Marketing with Jade Phillips

Why Social Media Is an Essential Tool for Business Executives With Lina Duque

Startup vs Scale-Up Growth Marketing with Alex Shipillo

7. The Top

The Top is a daily podcast hosted by Nathan Latka. Yes, you read it right – daily! Each morning, Nathan spends 15 minutes interviewing SaaS founders as they share all their learnings about how they launched their startups and grew them into successful SaaS businesses. Tune in every morning for your cup of coffee with the SaaS experts.

Notable episodes:

Hype4 Breaks $500k, Massive Design and Dev Community, SaaS Next?

How to Use Twitter to get first 200 Users for Your SaaS product

$2.4m in SaaS Revenues from Business and Apprentice Marketplace

8. The SaaS Revolution Show

The SaaS Revolution Show, hosted by Alex Theuma, brings you top tips and tactics from the greatest SaaS minds from around the world. Revolutionary founders, executives, and investors openly share their learnings on attracting and keeping customers, growing companies in unlikely places, scaling globally, and successfully super boosting your SaaS business. Make sure to give it a listen!

Notable episodes:

Product-Led or Sales-Led. Should you make the leap?

How to get Sales and Marketing Aligned with Mike Weir, G2

9 Revenue Accelerators for creating an unstoppable SaaS with Dev Basu

9. The SaaS Venture

The SaaS Venture podcast is dedicated to the SaaS and subscription industry. The podcast shares the adventure of building a SaaS company from the ground, leading and growing it to become a successful business. The hosts, Aaron Weiche of Leadferno and Darren Shaw from Whitespark, share their tips and tricks, experiences, ideas, wins, and losses while running their software companies. If you’re looking into starting up your SaaS business, you most definitely need to check it out!

Notable episodes:

28: Vision and Mission

22: SaaS Pricing – Is The Price Right?

12: Building Process in the Process

10. Built To Scale

Scaling your SaaS business may be a daunting process, but the Build To Scale podcast offers you all the behind-the-scenes tips and insights on how to do it right. Hosted by Mitch Fanning, the bi-weekly podcast offers meaningful conversations with industry experts who focus on helping B2B SaaS companies build repeatable, scalable growth. Give it a listen!

Notable episodes:

How to Build A Marketing Engine for A B2B Company with Shiv Narayanan CEO Of How to SaaS

2x Your B2B Marketing ROI with Chain-Based Attribution with Chris Nixon

How to Nail Product Positioning — April Dunford

11. SaaS District

The SaaS District podcast teaches you ways to optimize your growth strategy for your Saas startup, starting with your first glimpse of the idea all the way to a successful company. The host of the podcast, Akeel Jabber, covers topics like investing, acquisitions, leadership, B2B sales, growth marketing, scaling, hiring, M&A, conversion optimization, productivity, bootstrapping, venture capital, private equity, and innovation – basically, all the steps and know-how on scaling your SaaS company. Its in-depth bi-weekly episodes will surely help you get an idea about how to boost your business.

Notable episodes:

Top B2B SaaS Sales Strategies to Help You Grow Today #119

Top Startup Principles Every SaaS Founder Should Know #113

Top Secrets to Increasing SaaS User Engagement, Better Product Changelog Feedback & Reducing Churn with Spencer Coon #108

12. The Data-led Professional

Hosted by Claudiu Murariu and Arpit Choudhury, The Data-led Professional podcast is dedicated to helping peers become data-led, in order to build better products and experiences and skyrocket their businesses. Give it a play!

Notable episodes:

Marketing Attribution: The Role of Data to Get It Right

The Modern Data Stack for Growth: Why Every Company Needs It

Web Analytics vs Product Analytics and the Data That Powers Each of Them

13. SaaS it Up

Hosted by Saswat Sahu and Oskar Bader, the SaaS It Up podcast offers in-depth insights on entrepreneurship, growth sales, and bootstrapping your SaaS startup. The podcast shares interviews with entrepreneurs, VCs, and ecosystem partners who share their unique stories and choices they made in order to grow their business into successful SaaS companies. Give it a listen!

Notable episodes:

The Universal Laws of Product Management: Anna Boyarkina

The Culture Spectrum in Global SaaS: Gustavo Souza

The Anatomy of Product Virality: Wes Bush

14. Growth Stacking Show with Dan Martell

In The Growth Stacking Show podcast, host Dan Martell shares his tips and knowledge on how to build and scale successful products and businesses. If you’re looking to learn more about product development, customer retention, and SaaS strategies, this is the right podcast to listen to!

Notable episodes:

What to Focus on When Starting A Business (And What to Avoid)

The Ultimate SaaS Financial Guide with Mark MacLeod @ SurePath Capital

How to Close SaaS Customers Using Online Chat

15. The Growth Hub

The Growth Hub is the go-to podcast to help you grow and upscale your B2B SaaS business. The podcast focuses on actionable insights, strategic frameworks, and inspiring stories from the top minds in the SaaS industry from across the globe. Hosted by Edward Ford, The Growth Hub Podcast is dedicated to those SaaS marketers, CEOs, and founders who want to level up their knowledge, skills, and wisdom on how to build a high-growth SaaS business.

Notable episodes:

How to Position your SaaS for a Niche Audience with Rudan Zhang, VP of Marketing at Clubhouse.io

How to grow your SaaS biz as a solo marketer with Katheriin Liibert, Head of Marketing at Outfunnel

5 steps to create a B2B SaaS go-to-market strategy with Asia Orangio, CEO at DemandMaven

16. Better Done Than Perfect

The Better Done Than Perfect podcast is dedicated to all SaaS founders and product people. Guest experts share their learnings about customer success, user onboarding, scaling your business, and much more. Tune in to hear real-life stories from seasoned SaaS founders and SaaS Experts.

Notable episodes:

Navigating Massive Growth with Frank Barry

Launch Lessons & Product Surveys with Rand Fishkin

Radical Onboarding Experiments with Jordan Gal

17. Confessions of a B2B Marketer

Hosted by Tom Hunt, the Confessions of a B2B Marketer promises to give you the inside scoop on how to grow your B2B SaaS or agency, and how to attract a wealth of clients and customers. Give it a try!

Notable episodes:

Selling a SaaS Then Starting an Agency with Dave Schneider, CEO at Shortlist

The Best SaaS Cold Email of All Time with Geoff Atkinson of Huckabuy

The Ultimate SaaS Onboarding Flow with Ajay Goel

18. SaaS Sessions

The SaaS Session podcast is the all-in-one podcast that provides the opportunity to learn everything SaaS-related. From keeping up with new trends, learning the new aspects of the SaaS ecosystem, to getting the behind-the-scenes news from experts in the industry – these are just a few of the topics Sunil Neurgaonkar talks about with his guests. Get your pen and notebook ready and tune in to learn all the SaaS and subscription tricks you need to know.

Notable episodes:

Building Locally Relevant & Globally Scalable GTM Strategy ft. Ashwin Krishna, Marketing Director at Tact.ai

Customer Success 101 with Sandhya Tomer, Director of Customer Success at Whatfix

How to personalize marketing? ft. Sowmya Moni, Director of Marketing at Incture

19. Build Your Saas

John Buda and Justin Jackson are ready to show you how to Build Your SaaS with the help of their podcast. They will share their tips on how to stand out from your competitors, bootstrapping your business, and bringing it to the point of becoming a totally successful SaaS company. So, put that determination hat on and give it a listen!

Notable episodes:

What it Takes to Launch a SaaS

Do You Really Need To Build an Audience?

How Fragile Is The Prosumer SaaS Market?

20. The SaaS Marketing Show

Are you curious about what lies behind growing your SaaS or B2B tech business? Then you’re in the right place, because The SaaS Marketing Show is ready to tell you all about it. Dylan Hey, Co-Founder of Hey Digital and host of the podcast, will give you all the insights on what’s fueling some of the fastest-growing companies right now. Tune in to learn practical marketing and growth strategies from top marketing experts and SaaS founders.

Notable episodes:

Scaling a SaaS content marketplace and hitting 50% YOY Growth with Steve Pockross From Verblio – Episode 028

How User.com Improved Sales Conversion Rates From 15% to 30% – Episode 018

Influencer Marketing Secrets to Grow Your SaaS With Restream – Episode 014

21. SaaS Boss

Hosted by Natalie Luneva, the SaaS Boss podcast is all about giving you actionable advice for all you bootstrapped SaaS founders, offered by coaches and consultants about startup scaling challenges, building remote teams, leadership, getting unstuck, founder personal growth, and more.

Notable episodes:

SaaS Onboarding, with Étienne Garbugli

Maximizing Conversions During SaaS Demos, with Matt Wolach

9 SaaS Sales Accelerators That Will Transform Your Company, with Scott Sambucci

22. SaaS Marketing Superstars

SaaS Marketing Superstars is the podcast that uncovers proven growth strategies with the help of marketing leaders and CMOs who are behind the fastest-growing SaaS companies. Hosted by Aaron Zakowski, the podcast gives you all the intel on paid ads, SEO, ABM and sales, content marketing, email marketing, landing page optimization, and how to use these top tips to generate more signups for your SaaS business. Make sure you give it a listen!

Notable episodes:

Podcast #14- Nailing SaaS Messaging to Increase Conversion Rates with Pedro Cortes

Podcast #11- Aaron Krall’s Framework for Scaling SaaS User Onboarding the Right Way

Podcast #9 – How Customer Retention Can Quickly Grow Your SaaS MRR with Corey Haines

23. Gain Grow Retain: B2B SaaS Customer Success

The Gain Grow Retain: B2B SaaS Customer Success podcast is aimed towards customer success leaders in the B2B SaaS and tech space who are facing the day-to-day challenges of scaling. The hosts, Jeff Breunsbach and Jay Nathan, talk about all things SaaS-related, from growing and scaling subscription businesses, to customer retention. Check it out if you’re looking to learn new strategies for boosting your SaaS business.

Notable episodes:

Success Plans with a Customer w/ CSM Office Hours

Acting Strategically w/ CS Leadership Office Hours

Transforming a Business w/ Gemma Cipriani-Espineira

24. Sour & SaaS

The Sour & SaaS podcast is the place where experts break down SaaS marketing problems in order to give you all the info and tip on how to develop a top-notch SaaS business. Garrett Mehrguth, the host of the show, interviews SaaS marketing leaders from around the world while they’re challenged to get their words out – puckering with sour candy they consume throughout their conversation. So get your sour snacks and give it a listen!

Notable episodes:

Sour & SaaS – Season 4 Episode 3 – with VP of Marketing at Capacity, Justin Schmidt

Sour & SaaS – Season 3 Episode 8 – with CMO at Litmus, Melissa Sargeant

Sour & Saas with CMO/COO at Gimbal, Matthew Russo

25. Subscriptions: Scaled

Hosted by Nick Fredrick, the Subscriptions: Scaled podcast tackles topics such as SaaS subscriptions, subscription boxes, growth tactics, technical challenges of a subscription company, compliance challenges, and business strategy for subscription companies. If you’re curious about knowing all the different facets of successfully running a subscription business and how to build it, grow it, and scale it from a startup to something bigger, this is the podcast you should definitely listen to.

Notable episodes:

Considering Culture for Global Growth with Sanjyot P. Dunung, Founder & CEO, Atma Global

Attracting Loyal Subscribers through Content Marketing with Tim Murphy, CEO at Branch Basics

Changing Trends in Subscription Payments and Billing Operations feat. Brian Kehn, Director of Operations at HomeServe USA

26. Subscription Entrepreneur

The Subscription Entrepreneur podcast should be on every SaaS business developer’s playlist, because you’ll get all the behind-the-scenes on challenges faced and lessons learned by SaaS company founders, consultants, and innovators. The host of the podcast, Eric Turnnessen, talks about how you can find your personal expression in business, practical tools to get you up and running, high-level strategies, common pitfalls, navigating the digital world, and actionable steps for you to succeed at anything. Make sure to press play and give it a try!

Notable episodes:

How To Build A Business You Actually Want To Run with John Doherty

How To Add New Recurring Revenue Streams To Your Business with Mike Cliffe-Jones

How To Create A Subscription Website Your Users Will Love with Ryan Jordan

In a fast-paced world, podcasts are the best way to stay up to date with everything that’s happening in the SaaS and subscriptions industry, and an easy way to learn something new every day while doing your thing.

We really hope that this shortlist of best SaaS and subscriptions podcasts will deliver you tons of opportunities, learnings and meaningful advice to help you develop your own SaaS startup, or even better, to boost its growth to a successful top business.

Let us know in the comments section below which of these podcasts are your favorites. Are there any other SaaS and subscriptions podcasts you like to listen to?

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The Best 26 SaaS & Subscriptions Podcasts to Listen to in 2021

Bonus: Looking for more podcasts to listen to? Check out our list of Best eCommerce Podcasts to listen in 2021.

1. The SaaS Podcast

Notable episodes:

How to Create SaaS Buyer Personas and Produce Better Content – with Adrienne Barnes

How to Craft a Sales Narrative for Your SaaS Product – with Pete Kazanjy

A Guide to SaaS Customer Success: Reduce Churn & Grow Revenue – with Nick Mehta

2. SaaS Breakthrough

Notable episodes:

How SEMrush Went from Challenger Brand to SEO Market Leader

How Wishpond Recreated their Sales Approach with a Hybrid SaaS

How Help Scout Is Building Evergreen Marketing Assets with Super Compelling Content

3. The Official SaaStr Podcast

Notable episodes:

SaaStr Podcast #407 with The Creative Curve Author Allen Gannett: “The Secrets of Market Timing and How to Develop the Right Idea, at the Right Time”

SaaStr Podcast #396: Buying Patterns in the Enterprise: Who’s Really Buying and Why?

SaaStr Podcast 443: Building Your Marketing to $100M with Snowflake CMO Denise Persson

4. Protect the Hustle

Notable episodes:

S03 – E01 – April Dunford on why positioning is everything

S03 – E07 – Hubspot’s Kieran Flanagan on the evolution of growth

S02 – E06 – Intercom’s Des Traynor, Steve Blank: How to do Customer Research

5. The ProductLed Podcast

Notable episodes:

How to Start and Scale a Growth Team

Product-Led Experiments to Increase Activation & Retention

How To Generate High-Impact Growth Ideas

6. Growth Marketing Today

Notable episodes:

A Serial Entrepreneur’s Guide to Marketing with Jade Phillips

Why Social Media Is an Essential Tool for Business Executives With Lina Duque

Startup vs Scale-Up Growth Marketing with Alex Shipillo

7. The Top

Notable episodes:

Hype4 Breaks $500k, Massive Design and Dev Community, SaaS Next?

How to Use Twitter to get first 200 Users for Your SaaS product

$2.4m in SaaS Revenues from Business and Apprentice Marketplace

8. The SaaS Revolution Show

Notable episodes:

Product-Led or Sales-Led. Should you make the leap?

How to get Sales and Marketing Aligned with Mike Weir, G2

9 Revenue Accelerators for creating an unstoppable SaaS with Dev Basu

9. The SaaS Venture

Notable episodes:

28: Vision and Mission

22: SaaS Pricing – Is The Price Right?

12: Building Process in the Process

10. Built To Scale

Notable episodes:

How to Build A Marketing Engine for A B2B Company with Shiv Narayanan CEO Of How to SaaS

2x Your B2B Marketing ROI with Chain-Based Attribution with Chris Nixon

How to Nail Product Positioning — April Dunford

11. SaaS District

Notable episodes:

Top B2B SaaS Sales Strategies to Help You Grow Today #119

Top Startup Principles Every SaaS Founder Should Know #113

Top Secrets to Increasing SaaS User Engagement, Better Product Changelog Feedback & Reducing Churn with Spencer Coon #108

12. The Data-led Professional

Notable episodes:

Marketing Attribution: The Role of Data to Get It Right

The Modern Data Stack for Growth: Why Every Company Needs It

Web Analytics vs Product Analytics and the Data That Powers Each of Them

13. SaaS it Up

Notable episodes:

The Universal Laws of Product Management: Anna Boyarkina

The Culture Spectrum in Global SaaS: Gustavo Souza

The Anatomy of Product Virality: Wes Bush

14. Growth Stacking Show with Dan Martell

Notable episodes:

What to Focus on When Starting A Business (And What to Avoid)

The Ultimate SaaS Financial Guide with Mark MacLeod @ SurePath Capital

How to Close SaaS Customers Using Online Chat

15. The Growth Hub

Notable episodes:

How to Position your SaaS for a Niche Audience with Rudan Zhang, VP of Marketing at Clubhouse.io

How to grow your SaaS biz as a solo marketer with Katheriin Liibert, Head of Marketing at Outfunnel

5 steps to create a B2B SaaS go-to-market strategy with Asia Orangio, CEO at DemandMaven

16. Better Done Than Perfect

Notable episodes:

Navigating Massive Growth with Frank Barry

Launch Lessons & Product Surveys with Rand Fishkin

Radical Onboarding Experiments with Jordan Gal

17. Confessions of a B2B Marketer

Notable episodes:

Selling a SaaS Then Starting an Agency with Dave Schneider, CEO at Shortlist

The Best SaaS Cold Email of All Time with Geoff Atkinson of Huckabuy

The Ultimate SaaS Onboarding Flow with Ajay Goel

18. SaaS Sessions

Notable episodes:

Building Locally Relevant & Globally Scalable GTM Strategy ft. Ashwin Krishna, Marketing Director at Tact.ai

Customer Success 101 with Sandhya Tomer, Director of Customer Success at Whatfix

How to personalize marketing? ft. Sowmya Moni, Director of Marketing at Incture

19. Build Your Saas

Notable episodes:

What it Takes to Launch a SaaS

Do You Really Need To Build an Audience?

How Fragile Is The Prosumer SaaS Market?

20. The SaaS Marketing Show

Notable episodes:

Scaling a SaaS content marketplace and hitting 50% YOY Growth with Steve Pockross From Verblio – Episode 028

How User.com Improved Sales Conversion Rates From 15% to 30% – Episode 018

Influencer Marketing Secrets to Grow Your SaaS With Restream – Episode 014

21. SaaS Boss

Notable episodes:

SaaS Onboarding, with Étienne Garbugli

Maximizing Conversions During SaaS Demos, with Matt Wolach

9 SaaS Sales Accelerators That Will Transform Your Company, with Scott Sambucci

22. SaaS Marketing Superstars

Notable episodes:

Podcast #14- Nailing SaaS Messaging to Increase Conversion Rates with Pedro Cortes

Podcast #11- Aaron Krall’s Framework for Scaling SaaS User Onboarding the Right Way

Podcast #9 – How Customer Retention Can Quickly Grow Your SaaS MRR with Corey Haines

23. Gain Grow Retain: B2B SaaS Customer Success

Notable episodes:

Success Plans with a Customer w/ CSM Office Hours

Acting Strategically w/ CS Leadership Office Hours

Transforming a Business w/ Gemma Cipriani-Espineira

24. Sour & SaaS

Notable episodes:

Sour & SaaS – Season 4 Episode 3 – with VP of Marketing at Capacity, Justin Schmidt

Sour & SaaS – Season 3 Episode 8 – with CMO at Litmus, Melissa Sargeant

Sour & Saas with CMO/COO at Gimbal, Matthew Russo

25. Subscriptions: Scaled

Notable episodes:

Considering Culture for Global Growth with Sanjyot P. Dunung, Founder & CEO, Atma Global

Attracting Loyal Subscribers through Content Marketing with Tim Murphy, CEO at Branch Basics

Changing Trends in Subscription Payments and Billing Operations feat. Brian Kehn, Director of Operations at HomeServe USA

26. Subscription Entrepreneur

Notable episodes:

How To Build A Business You Actually Want To Run with John Doherty

How To Add New Recurring Revenue Streams To Your Business with Mike Cliffe-Jones

How To Create A Subscription Website Your Users Will Love with Ryan Jordan

Let us know in the comments section below which of these podcasts are your favorites. Are there any other SaaS and subscriptions podcasts you like to listen to?

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48 hours left on early-bird pricing to TC Sessions: Robotics + AI 2020

Just two days stand between you and serious savings on tickets to TC Sessions: Robotics+AI 2020. This annual day-long event draws the most innovative and visionary technologists, researchers and investors from two game-changing industries — last year we hosted 1,500 attendees. Make a smart investment. Buy an early-bird ticket before prices go up on January 31 and save $150.

Looking for exposure? We have two fantastic ways to put your early-stage startup in front of a highly influential group of VCs and technologists. Check this out.

Apply to compete in Pitch Night. Ten startups will compete in a mini pitch-off at a private event the night before the conference. A panel of VC judges will choose five finalists to pitch again the next day from the TC Sessions Main Stage. All 10 teams will each receive two free tickets to the event. Submit your application here by February 1. We’ll notify selected startups by February 15.

Buy a Startup Exhibitor Package and demo at the event. You’d better jump on this opportunity and fast — we have only two packages left. The $2,200 price includes four tickets to the event. Bring your crew and quadruple your networking potential.

Now let’s talk about the kind of programming you can expect. We’re talking a full day of presentations, panel discussions, world-class speakers, workshops, robot demos and plenty of time for networking. Here’s a sample of what’s on tap. You can check out the day’s agenda here.

The Next Century of Robo-Exoticism: In 1920, Karl Capek coined the term “robot” in a play about mechanical workers organizing a rebellion to defeat their human overlords. Join expert panelists Abigail De Kosnik (Center for New Media, University of California, Berkeley), David Ewing Duncan (Arc Fusion), Ken Goldberg (UC Berkeley College of Engineering) and Mark Pauline (Survival Research) as they discuss cultural views of robots in the context of “Robo-Exoticism,” which exaggerates both negative and positive attributes and reinforces old fears, fantasies and stereotypes.

A Live Demo from the Stanford Robotics Club — because everybody loves to see robots in action.

Opening the Black Box with Explainable A.I.: Machine learning and AI models can be found in nearly every aspect of society today, but their inner workings are often as much a mystery to their creators as to those who use them. UC Berkeley’s Trevor Darrell, Krishna Gade of Fiddler Labs and Karen Myers from SRI International will discuss what we’re doing about it and what still needs to be done.

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( ANA DE ARMAS | SHE/HER, CISFEMALE ) quick, snap a picture that’s CHARLOTTE ‘LOLA’ MORTERERO coming this way. you know the TWENTY-EIGHT year old SINGER/SONGWRITER that sounds exactly like HALSEY. in interviews SHE always comes off as LIVELY and FEARLESS, but every time gossip is covered by GLC, SHE is painted as UNPREDICTABLE and JEALOUS. GLC is always referring to HER as the BROKEN BIRD. the last story they did on HER was about HOW SHE GOT PREGNANT BY HER EX-FIANCE, but they’d have a field day if they knew that SHE IS SUPPLYING HER PARENTS WITH DRUGS. i hope no one finds out because crowned just might drop any artist with too much drama.

hi, i’m maya & this is my smol mess of a gal. hmu if you want to plot !!!

strictly goes by lola. doesn’t answer to charlotte bc of bad associations with the name, i.e. mainly her parents.

born and raised in miami.

came from a dirt poor family. her mom worked at a grocery store and her dad was typically unemployed throughout her life due to his drug addiction. eventually, he got her mom into that world as well so lola had to learn to fend for herself at an early age -- lying about her age to get a job, pawning off stuff, etc.

always loved music and writing. did everything she could to participate in every talent show and showcase she could to get a little cash to help out with her life.

way more street smart than book smart but wanted to go off to college just to get the fuck away from her wastoid parents.

got discovered while performing in a club at the age of 19 and sorta catapulted into the spotlight.

her vc is halsey so her style of music is very indie pop. personality wise, she’s a no bullshitter. hard working. hedonistic. protective. she has a good heart ; she’s just used to be surrounded by bad people. don’t get her mad tho bc she turns into the stereotypical latina woman lmao.

fame started off rocky for lola because she got so wrapped up in the power, money, and access. morphed into a major party girl.

supplies her parents with money to fund their addictions just to keep them quiet about her past life. no one besides those super close to her know about her past background and she’d like to keep it that way. she crafted a lie to tell the media.

had a stream of relationships that didn’t stick except for alistair and even that was short-lived. they went on only five dates before the two announced they were engaged, and a month or so afterwards -- they realized that was a stupid rushed idea.

but lo and behold, lola got pregnant from that relationship and is currently nearing seven months pregnant.

since finding out she was pregnant, lola has considerably cleaned up her act and is trying to get her shit together before the baby comes.

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First Uber, now Tesla: what will it take to really address sexism in tech?

A Tesla engineer in San Carlos, CA, has blown the whistle on a culture of “pervasive harassment”, pay inequity, and retaliatory action by Human Resources

The lawsuit, which comes on the heels of similar revelations from a former engineer at Uber, have left the tech community reeling—and activists wondering what it will take to have a real conversation about the struggle for gender equality in tech and start-up culture.

In light of Tuesday’s news that a female Tesla engineer has filed suit against Elon Musk’s electric car company for alleged lack of wage equality, failure to advance in spite of high performance, and an all-around persistently sexist environment,1 many in tech and start-up culture have been left wondering what it will take to have a real conversation about Silicon Valley’s gender problem. The allegations come less than two weeks after an explosive blog post2 by a former Uber engineer detailing the company’s sexist environment prompted the ride-sharing giant to order a thorough investigation—but not before other women had come forward with similar allegations, and not before the author of the original post claimed to have been the subject of a retaliatory smear campaign3.

The stories, though they sent shockwaves through two of Silicon Valley’s biggest properties, sound all-too familiar to the writers and activists who have been calling out tech’s thorny relationship to gender equality for years. Below, in excerpts from Lean Out: The Struggle for Gender Equality in Tech and Start-Up Culture, the contributors examine just some of the ways the putatively “disruptive” and “forward-thinking” tech industry is fifty years behind the rest of the country with respect to the people it represents:

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Elissa Shevinsky on why the pipeline isn’t the problem:

The idea that tech has a pipeline problem—one that can be solved by teaching five-year-old girls to code—infuriates me.

It’s awkward to say so. I need to tread carefully here, lest I be accused of bad feminism. I can see the headline now: “#LADYBOSS Against STEM Education for Girls. Also Secretly Hates Pupplies.”

I am, of course, in favor of teaching girls to code. And it is true that there are more men than women applying for jobs and programs in Silicon Valley. But the reason why we don’t have more women in tech is not because of a lack of STEM education. It’s because too many high profile and influential individuals and sub-cultures within the tech industry have ignored or outright mistreated women applicants and employees. To be succinct—the problem isn’t women, it’s tech culture. That’s the issue that needs to be addressed.

The mistake that we have made, as journalists and as readers, is taking the narratives espoused by executives at big tech companies at face value. Sometimes those executives, expressing deep concern about the “pipeline problem,” are women. That doesn’t mean that they are speaking as feminists. An executive woman at a company like Google or Yahoo is just as likely to be speaking on behalf her company—beholden to its quarterly revenue numbers and its many public shareholders.

We all know that there is a “Women in Tech” problem. But the nature of that problem looks very different, depending on our vantage point.

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Katy Levinson on the fear of being labeled a liability:

On two occasions, my employers have offered me bribes to leave quietly because they were worried about sexual harassment claims either slightly before or after dramatic percentages of women either transferred to another department, quit, or were removed. I had not brought any harassment concerns forward prior to either offer. In both cases I have reason to believe I was the only woman offered financial compensation. I have spoken at a professional conference and had about two dozen drunk fully grown men shout-chant at me to take my shirt off, becoming louder and growing more numerous the longer nobody responded to them. Security did nothing, and I was on my own to de-escalate the situation.

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There is one thing you know about every single person who has ever complained about an act of sexism loudly enough for the public to notice: they worry that they will be seen as liabilities for the rest of their career. No whistleblower has ever been given a “team player” award by the organization they spoke ill of. That shouldn’t be too foreign a concept: people we call whistleblowers who outed the wrongs of government or industry, certainly aren’t doing it for personal gain. In this way, sexual harassment whistleblowing is the same as any other kind of whistleblowing.

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Sunny Allen on the difficult of bucking the boys’ club pattern recognition:

Think about Silicon Valley as a race up a mountain. There’s a suite of traditional prizes, like owning a Tesla and the social currency of tech fame that gets you invited to the best parties. There is the question of which Burning Man camp you camp with, and which corporate cafeterias you eat at. How many fancy bottles of bourbon do you have on a cart next to your desk? Then of course there is the granddaddy of tech wins—the entrepreneur’s IPO. This leads to “fuck you money.”

There’s a traditional way to run the race, too. A boy’s club, although women can join if they do it just right. This involves going to Stanford (MIT is also acceptable) and networking events and joining Angel List and having great recommendations on your LinkedIn profile. At cocktail parties you talk about lean pivots and the importance of a Good Team. You are you and white and gorgeous. Or as gorgeous as nerds ever get to be. You wore glasses until you got lasik. There is a thing called pattern recognition, there is a thing that Venture Capitalists and Hiring Managers look for. And I am not that thing.

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Gesche Haas on going public with the experience of sexual harassment:

I spent many years working on my companies before becoming Internet-famous for being sexually harassed by a VC in Germany. As soon as I came out with my story, I was flooded with letters from other women who had been similarly treated. They’ve asked me… what made me brave enough to speak up? And how did I feel?

…On the one hand, I was proud of my refusal to accept the said behavior—regardless of the potential risks. However, one can only imagine what a huge time-suck in mental distraction and self-questioning this incident provoked. Imagine how painful this felt to an entrepreneur who carefully and meticulously optimizes every second of her life. It drained me. Early on, the email led to many sleepless nights during which I felt conflicted, unable to stop analyzing the situation. Should I do something or nothing at all? Countless hours were spent drafting anonymous blog posts about what had happened. Embarking on this journey, I never expected the story to eventually make its way into the press—but when it did, it went viral. The aftermath was so consuming that my productivity and focus was immensely impacted for several weeks.

In addition to the (unwelcome) distraction from work, I am also the first to admit that becoming a figure in the media’s discourse regarding sexual discrimination had never been part of my five-year plan. Yet, if you Google my name today there is no doubt left that it is now my “claim to fame.” Case in point, you are reading a piece right now about sexism, written by me.

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Further Reading

An excerpt from GAY PROPAGANDA to celebrate National Coming Out Day (10/11/2016)

In Bookforum, Sarah Leonard contrasts the feminist utopias technology once promised to the “sexist hellscape” of Silicon Valley documented in LEAN OUT (3/21/2016)

LEAN OUT named one of the top 100 business books of the year by Inc. (12/22/2015)

ELISSA SHEVINSKY profiled in San Jose Mercury News (10/1/2015)

“That’s why I think everyone who hires or manages anyone in tech ought to read the remarkable book, LEAN OUT, edited by Elissa Shevinsky.” —Venturebeat (9/28/2015)

LEAN OUT The Struggle for Gender Equality in Tech and Start-Up Culture

Elissa Shevinsky, editor

Why aren’t the great, qualified women already in tech being hired or promoted? Should women seek to join an institution that is actively hostile to them? Edited by tech veteran Elissa Shevinsky, Lean Out sees a possible way forward that uses tech and creative disengagement to jettison 20th century corporate culture. More

1The Guardian, accessed 28 February 2017 2Susan J. Fowler, accessed 28 February 2017 3Mashable, accessed 28 February 2017

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The Best 26 SaaS & Subscriptions Podcasts to Listen to in 2021

Bonus: Looking for more podcasts to listen to? Check out our list of Best eCommerce Podcasts to listen in 2021.

1. The SaaS Podcast

Notable episodes:

How to Create SaaS Buyer Personas and Produce Better Content – with Adrienne Barnes

How to Craft a Sales Narrative for Your SaaS Product – with Pete Kazanjy

A Guide to SaaS Customer Success: Reduce Churn & Grow Revenue – with Nick Mehta

2. SaaS Breakthrough

Notable episodes:

How SEMrush Went from Challenger Brand to SEO Market Leader

How Wishpond Recreated their Sales Approach with a Hybrid SaaS

How Help Scout Is Building Evergreen Marketing Assets with Super Compelling Content

3. The Official SaaStr Podcast

Notable episodes:

SaaStr Podcast #407 with The Creative Curve Author Allen Gannett: “The Secrets of Market Timing and How to Develop the Right Idea, at the Right Time”

SaaStr Podcast #396: Buying Patterns in the Enterprise: Who’s Really Buying and Why?

SaaStr Podcast 443: Building Your Marketing to $100M with Snowflake CMO Denise Persson

4. Protect the Hustle

Notable episodes:

S03 – E01 – April Dunford on why positioning is everything

S03 – E07 – Hubspot’s Kieran Flanagan on the evolution of growth

S02 – E06 – Intercom’s Des Traynor, Steve Blank: How to do Customer Research

5. The ProductLed Podcast

Notable episodes:

How to Start and Scale a Growth Team

Product-Led Experiments to Increase Activation & Retention

How To Generate High-Impact Growth Ideas

6. Growth Marketing Today

Notable episodes:

A Serial Entrepreneur’s Guide to Marketing with Jade Phillips

Why Social Media Is an Essential Tool for Business Executives With Lina Duque

Startup vs Scale-Up Growth Marketing with Alex Shipillo

7. The Top

Notable episodes:

Hype4 Breaks $500k, Massive Design and Dev Community, SaaS Next?

How to Use Twitter to get first 200 Users for Your SaaS product

$2.4m in SaaS Revenues from Business and Apprentice Marketplace

8. The SaaS Revolution Show

Notable episodes:

Product-Led or Sales-Led. Should you make the leap?

How to get Sales and Marketing Aligned with Mike Weir, G2

9 Revenue Accelerators for creating an unstoppable SaaS with Dev Basu

9. The SaaS Venture

Notable episodes:

28: Vision and Mission

22: SaaS Pricing – Is The Price Right?

12: Building Process in the Process

10. Built To Scale

Notable episodes:

How to Build A Marketing Engine for A B2B Company with Shiv Narayanan CEO Of How to SaaS

2x Your B2B Marketing ROI with Chain-Based Attribution with Chris Nixon

How to Nail Product Positioning — April Dunford

11. SaaS District

Notable episodes:

Top B2B SaaS Sales Strategies to Help You Grow Today #119

Top Startup Principles Every SaaS Founder Should Know #113

Top Secrets to Increasing SaaS User Engagement, Better Product Changelog Feedback & Reducing Churn with Spencer Coon #108

12. The Data-led Professional

Notable episodes:

Marketing Attribution: The Role of Data to Get It Right

The Modern Data Stack for Growth: Why Every Company Needs It

Web Analytics vs Product Analytics and the Data That Powers Each of Them

13. SaaS it Up

Notable episodes:

The Universal Laws of Product Management: Anna Boyarkina

The Culture Spectrum in Global SaaS: Gustavo Souza

The Anatomy of Product Virality: Wes Bush

14. Growth Stacking Show with Dan Martell

Notable episodes:

What to Focus on When Starting A Business (And What to Avoid)

The Ultimate SaaS Financial Guide with Mark MacLeod @ SurePath Capital

How to Close SaaS Customers Using Online Chat

15. The Growth Hub

Notable episodes:

How to Position your SaaS for a Niche Audience with Rudan Zhang, VP of Marketing at Clubhouse.io

How to grow your SaaS biz as a solo marketer with Katheriin Liibert, Head of Marketing at Outfunnel

5 steps to create a B2B SaaS go-to-market strategy with Asia Orangio, CEO at DemandMaven

16. Better Done Than Perfect

Notable episodes:

Navigating Massive Growth with Frank Barry

Launch Lessons & Product Surveys with Rand Fishkin

Radical Onboarding Experiments with Jordan Gal

17. Confessions of a B2B Marketer

Notable episodes:

Selling a SaaS Then Starting an Agency with Dave Schneider, CEO at Shortlist

The Best SaaS Cold Email of All Time with Geoff Atkinson of Huckabuy

The Ultimate SaaS Onboarding Flow with Ajay Goel

18. SaaS Sessions

Notable episodes:

Building Locally Relevant & Globally Scalable GTM Strategy ft. Ashwin Krishna, Marketing Director at Tact.ai

Customer Success 101 with Sandhya Tomer, Director of Customer Success at Whatfix

How to personalize marketing? ft. Sowmya Moni, Director of Marketing at Incture

19. Build Your Saas

Notable episodes:

What it Takes to Launch a SaaS

Do You Really Need To Build an Audience?

How Fragile Is The Prosumer SaaS Market?

20. The SaaS Marketing Show

Notable episodes:

Scaling a SaaS content marketplace and hitting 50% YOY Growth with Steve Pockross From Verblio – Episode 028

How User.com Improved Sales Conversion Rates From 15% to 30% – Episode 018

Influencer Marketing Secrets to Grow Your SaaS With Restream – Episode 014

21. SaaS Boss

Notable episodes:

SaaS Onboarding, with Étienne Garbugli

Maximizing Conversions During SaaS Demos, with Matt Wolach

9 SaaS Sales Accelerators That Will Transform Your Company, with Scott Sambucci

22. SaaS Marketing Superstars

Notable episodes:

Podcast #14- Nailing SaaS Messaging to Increase Conversion Rates with Pedro Cortes

Podcast #11- Aaron Krall’s Framework for Scaling SaaS User Onboarding the Right Way

Podcast #9 – How Customer Retention Can Quickly Grow Your SaaS MRR with Corey Haines

23. Gain Grow Retain: B2B SaaS Customer Success

Notable episodes:

Success Plans with a Customer w/ CSM Office Hours

Acting Strategically w/ CS Leadership Office Hours

Transforming a Business w/ Gemma Cipriani-Espineira

24. Sour & SaaS

Notable episodes:

Sour & SaaS – Season 4 Episode 3 – with VP of Marketing at Capacity, Justin Schmidt

Sour & SaaS – Season 3 Episode 8 – with CMO at Litmus, Melissa Sargeant

Sour & Saas with CMO/COO at Gimbal, Matthew Russo

25. Subscriptions: Scaled

Notable episodes:

Considering Culture for Global Growth with Sanjyot P. Dunung, Founder & CEO, Atma Global

Attracting Loyal Subscribers through Content Marketing with Tim Murphy, CEO at Branch Basics

Changing Trends in Subscription Payments and Billing Operations feat. Brian Kehn, Director of Operations at HomeServe USA

26. Subscription Entrepreneur

Notable episodes:

How To Build A Business You Actually Want To Run with John Doherty

How To Add New Recurring Revenue Streams To Your Business with Mike Cliffe-Jones

How To Create A Subscription Website Your Users Will Love with Ryan Jordan

Let us know in the comments section below which of these podcasts are your favorites. Are there any other SaaS and subscriptions podcasts you like to listen to?

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They all started with the best of intentions. Formation 8 talked about bringing “smart enterprise” to the corporate world. Social Capital talked about how to “fix capitalism,” and Binary Capital wanted to “affect global behaviour change.” Rothenberg Ventures set out to “work on the biggest problems that change the world.”

Young founding partners debuting change-the-world funds were irresistible for chroniclers of the venture world, who too often had been forced to chat to balding and aging managing directors while hitting the links at resplendent country clubs. Everything was going to change in the venture world, and here was a new guard of progressive-thinking talent that would transform Silicon Valley forever.

Then it all came crashing down.

Social Capital fired nearly its entire remaining staff last week after seeing a mass staff exodus over the past few months. Formation 8 suffered deep acrimony between its founding partners, and its successive funds continue to deal with new challenges, such as a new, unreported lawsuit in California. Binary faced the Caldbeck sexual harassment situation, while Rothenberg imploded with allegations of financial fraud and mismanagement.

Some of the tales are sordid, while others are clearly the result of inexperience and hubris. But together, they weave a narrative for us that shouldn’t surprise anyone: giving hundreds of millions of dollars to neophytes wasn’t perhaps the best plan to build long-lasting funds.

The lessons though are myriad and broad. For founders, receiving investments from same-age peers may have made board meetings more relaxing, but at the cost of experience and oversight. Journalists who sat by while VCs built founding fables about themselves should have done more to pierce these reality distortion fields.

But perhaps most of all, the lessons need to be learned by limited partners. As LPs continue to lower their guard and drop due diligence in the race to get into the next hot fund, perhaps the combination of these stories can serve as a warning against rushing to write a check and being thoughtful about who to partner with in business.

The Valley finds its glamour

Sand Hill Road was the epicenter of venture capital. Its monopoly is increasingly being lost to downtown Palo Alto and SF. (Photo by Steven Damron used under Creative Commons).

It’s almost impossible to imagine today, but venture and the broader startup ecosystem used to be decidedly uncool. In the early 2000s, before the rise of blogs like TechCrunch and the breathless coverage of thousands of tech startups, Silicon Valley startups worked in the relative obscurity of the South Bay — the actual Silicon Valley of lore. A boring suburban hell of sorts, startups attracted the misfits and the communalists, and most definitely the engineers who saw in the internet the future of human society.

Things changed as the global financial crisis struck in 2008. The startup world began to migrate north, to San Francisco. Technology went from a backwater industry to the forefront of global power and commerce. Once the bastion of nerds, the MBAs and other pretty people started pouring in, ready to seek out fortune — the tech that might drive it be damned.

Perhaps most importantly, glamor hit the tech world hard. Conferences like Disrupt and AllThingsD propelled formerly unknown entrepreneurs to the heights of fame. Exec comms became de rigueur for founders, and venture firms equipped themselves with some of the best communications talent they could find.

Yet, while the entrepreneurs were increasingly speaking about “saving the world,” the venture firms were not. Stodgy, venerable, and just plain old (and white and male), the stalwarts of Sand Hill Road (the epitome of a suburban hell street complete with a full-service gas station) struggled to adapt their boring Excel number crunching thinking to this new world.

Their firms – and LPs – noticed, and responded by trying to hire a new crop of partners, operators with the cachet to win over founders and snare the next great deal. Operators had very different mentalities from traditional venture folks, but that was okay in the competition for the next hot startup.

But as any Silicon Valley enthusiast knows, the path to disruption doesn’t lie through evolving incumbents. Instead, it’s about founding startups, or in this case, new venture firms with fresh perspectives that connect with founders looking for a friend on their board rather than competent but mature directors who were older than their grandparents.

The best-laid plans of mice and VCs…

Joe Lonsdale of 8VC. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images

And so we get Joe Lonsdale, a co-founder of Palantir, who left and eventually started Formation 8 at age 30 with Brian Koo age 33, scion of the Koo family of South Korea which owns the LG conglomerate, along with long-time VC investor Jim Kim. They raise $448 million for their first fund in 2013, the largest debut in the history of venture. Lonsdale described the firm’s investing style simply: “First and foremost, we invest in driven entrepreneurs who we believe will change the world.”

We get Jonathan Teo aged 34 and Justin Caldbeck aged 37 (and the oldest of the pack!), two young but reasonably experienced venture capitalists peeling off of their venerable funds (General Catalyst for Teo and Lightspeed and Bain for Caldbeck) to start Binary Capital, which began with a debut fund of $125 million in 2014 and raised another $175 million just two years later. Teo, speaking to a Singaporean magazine, explained that “We are at the centre of the tech ecosystem, and consumer technology is the highest leverage a company has to affect global behaviour change.”

(That same article noted in its intro that “It is not every day that someone buys a Boeing 747 as a gift. But that was exactly what Jonathan Teo did last year, when he gathered a group of Silicon Valley tech titans to purchase a used plane and donated it to Burning Man, an annual experimental art festival held in Black Rock Desert, Nevada.” Burning Man may well be one of the most inter-connected events for all of these folks).

Justin Caldbeck, formerly of Binary Capital. Michael Short/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Chamath Palihapitiya, who spent four years at Facebook early in that company’s history and eventually headed growth, would start Social+Capital Partnership in 2011 and synced up with experienced hands Ted Maidenberg and Mamoon Hamid. Palihapitiya, aged 34 and self-described “Merchant of Progress,” said that he wanted to “fix capitalism.” In an interview with Fast Company’s Ainsley Harris, he said, “But you can fix capitalism. And the reason you can fix capitalism: It is inherently numerical, and as a result, it is inherently objective. It can be done objectively.”

Rothenberg may not have raised the same kind of moolah, debuting with a $5 million seed fund in 2013, but Rothenberg spread his wings far and wide in San Francisco, opening up his apartment and co-working facilities to create a community of entrepreneurs. He loved the press and media attention and outlandish behavior, eventually hosting a now infamous field day at the SF Giants baseball park in SoMa. As he explained during an interview at Stanford, “…we can build and create awesome experiences, people care about that and then we can actually work on the biggest problems that change the world and that’s awesome…”

These four firms flouted venture conventions, and sought out the path-breaking investments that would drive returns. Formation 8 struck a bit of gold with its exit of Oculus to Facebook and RelateIQ to SalesForce. The rebranded Social Capital bought into high-flying startup Slack, and also led the series A into Intercom. Binary invested in young consumer startups like Bellhops and Shoptiques and Havenly according to Pitchbook. Rothenberg invested heavily in VR and also in popular companies like Boosted, Apartment List, and Chubbies, albeit with mostly tiny checks.

These firms were designed to cultivate the next-generation of founders, and on that front, they succeeded. If only that was the sole benchmark for success.

… often go awry

Chamath Palihapitiya of Social Capital. (Photo by Brian Ach/Getty Images for TechCrunch)

Tolstoy begins Anna Karenina with the line that “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

The same is true of venture firms. Portfolio returns can easily make everyone happy, but when firms blow up, they all blow up in their own, idiosyncratic ways.

Formation 8 was the first of the set to disintegrate. Part of the equation was accusations and a lawsuit against Joe Lonsdale around a sexual assault – allegations that were in the end dismissed. But the challenges internally at the firm far pre-dated those challenges. As William Alden at Buzzfeed chronicled at extreme length, Lonsdale and Brian Koo were at loggerheads over investment strategy, and even the geography of where the Formation 8 offices should be located in the Bay Area. Plus, they had a fight over a Korean restaurant Koo tried to open in Palo Alto. There were also the lurid details of the Hyperloop One imbroglio, where Lonsdale was a board member.

The two ended up separating, with Lonsdale creating 8VC and debuting with a $425 million fund and Koo starting Formation Group with a $357 million fund.

Yet, the troubles continue. A lawsuit – so far unreported – was filed in the United States District Court for Northern California this past June, alleging that Koo and Formation Group and its affiliates committed “fraud, breach of contract, breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing…“ by failing to pay a partner named Martin Robinson and a principal named Selvam Moorthy. That litigation remains on-going according to district court records, where the parties are due to discuss a motion to move the matter to arbitration.

Lonsdale, for his part, has certainly shied away from the media, and has been in a rebuilding phase, eventually nailing a second fund for 8VC of $640 million earlier this year.

Partner fallout is one version of an unhappy venture firm, but Binary Capital disintegrated due to alleged sexual harassment by Justin Caldbeck from multiple women in Silicon Valley. He would eventually come to be the Silicon Valley poster boy for the MeToo movement, and was sued by a former employee of Binary. The firm’s assets were sold to LHV earlier this year, and it is now essentially a non-entity.

Rothenberg Ventures team

Meanwhile, Rothenberg has been facing tougher challenges. He faced a litany of investigations over his fiduciary responsibilities to his fund, eventually being charged by the SEC last month for fraud. That criminal trial is on-going.

And then we get to Social Capital, whose troubles appear to be more managerial. Palihapitiya’s two early partners, Maidenberg and Hamid, both decamped to other firms. There has now been a complete exodus of partners and staff at the firm, with even more layoffs taking place just in the last few days. The fund is no longer raising outside capital.

Outside of Palihapitiya, the math on who is left remains decidedly unclear. The Information quotes Palihapitiya as saying that “I would rather spend time with the people that are 100% aligned with what I want to do and the person that’s most aligned with what I want to do is me.”

That shouldn’t be a problem when there is no one else in the room.

Lessons for founders, VCs, and LPs

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Silicon Valley loves a great story. We love the entrepreneurs who fight like hell to build their companies, who beat the odds against incumbents and competitors. We love the drama of business, of Uber against Lyft and Airbnb against city governments. We want the underdogs to win.

At some point though, we need to evaluate our own narrative fetishes. We need to see through the loud pronouncements, the ambitious quotes, the glossy marketing. Especially in venture capital, where excuses for poor performance are a common trade, we need to resurrect the age-old skill of simply looking at the numbers and evaluating quality. As my VC mentors over the years have consistently said: VC is not an investment business, it is a returns business.

We also need to reevaluate our patience. Startups take twelve years or more to build and exit, but VC firms have a much longer cycle. They are meant to last, because they owe broad obligations to so many other firms through the board seats they hold.

Partner turnover is up at many firms, despite the damage that does to startup governance. Even worse is when a firm disintegrates entirely. We should celebrate the slow and steady on the finance side, and leave the quick growth to the startups.

In a region that reveres the young, we also need to remember that many jobs are ultimately dependent on experience, and venture capital is certainly one of them. VC is its own trade, with learnings and techniques that build up over a lifetime of investing. That doesn’t mean that young people have nothing to offer – far from it. But it does mean that our indexing should not just assume that a 30-something automatically has the capacity to manage a complex front and back office team and invest hundreds of millions of dollars in a few short months.

LPs face the greatest challenges in this area. They are the guardians of their funds, since after all, it’s their money that will be lost. But the timing to get into a hot investor’s hand can be extraordinarily limited, and even asking a question or two could lead them to be cut out of a fund’s subscriptions. LPs need to band together and refuse to concede to these demands. Due diligence doesn’t have to be exhaustive on a debut fund, but it should also not be de minimis. Some coordination here is just absolutely needed to ensure a basic level of integrity.

It’s said that new VCs need to down an F-16 in order to learn the trade. Together, Formation 8 raised $1.39 billion, Social Capital $1.3 billion, Binary $300 million, and Rothenberg $70 million, according to Pitchbook.

That’s a $3 billion education for these partners, and for all of us.

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