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Nikhil Basu Trivedi is Partner at Shasta Ventures, leading investments in a variety of consumer-oriented businesses. He also has a strong interest in industries that have yet to be transformed for the better by mobile and web technology, including healthcare, education, energy, and the life sciences. Nikhil has co-sponsored many of Shasta's investments since joining the team in 2012. In 2015, he was named to Forbes Magazine's 30 Under 30 list for Venture Capital.

We talk to Nikhil about D2C business trends, the success of subscription business models, and metrics that matter to investors.

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Mark Settle is a seven-time CIO with broad business experience in information services, enterprise software, consumer products, high tech distribution, financial services, and oil & gas. He has received multiple industry awards and is a three-time CIO 100 honoree. He's currently the CIO of Okta. Settle sits on the advisory boards of several Silicon Valley venture capital firms and pioneered the adoption of service management and cloud computing technologies within several large enterprises. He is the author of Truth from the Trenches: A Practical Guide to the Art of IT Management. Settle received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from MIT and a PhD from Brown University. He is a former Air Force officer and NASA Program Scientist.

We talk to Settle on the evolving role of the CIO, business transformation challenges, and lessons learned from being the "the most experienced CIO in the world."

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Magdalena Yesil is the founder of Broadway Angels and the founding board member and first investor in Salesforce. She also recently joined the Zuora board of directors. Magdalena has been active in Silicon Valley for three decades. Most recently, she spent eight years as a general partner at the venture capital firm US Venture Partners (USVP), making investments in a broad spectrum of technology startups. She has been an early investor in over 30 companies. Prior to her investing career, Magdalena was a serial entrepreneur, founding two successful electronic commerce companies, CyberCash and MarketPay. She has a book coming out this October – Power Up: How Smart Women Win in the New Economy

We talk to Magdalena about the early days of the internet, investing in Salesforce, diversity in tech, and the future of the Subscription Economy.

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Judy Loehr is Partner at CloudApps Venture Partners. Judy has over two decades of experience with business software spanning product, marketing, consulting and business development roles. A part of the early salesforce.com team, she went on to become one of the world's leading marketing consultants for cloud business application companies. Judy has invested in some of the most successful SaaS companies and now focuses on early-stage cloud business application companies.

We talk to Judy about creative go-to-market strategies and the challenges and strategies for new SaaS business app marketplaces.

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Jason is a partner at Shasta Ventures and invests in consumer, cloud computing, SaaS and open source software. He also serves on the boards of Zuora, Crittercism, Nextdoor and Smule.

We talk to Jason on his confidence in the Subscription Economy, 2017 IPO trends, and what it takes to convince him to invest in a company.

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Todd Eby is the co-founder of SuccessHacker, a boutique advisory firm focused on education, consulting and recruiting services for early stage companies seeking to build a solid Customer Success foundation to accelerate their growth.

We talk to Todd about the evolution of success hacking, Customer Success strategies, and lots more!

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Jason Lemkin is the Founder of SaaStr and was the Co-Founder/ and CEO of EchoSign. As a VC, Jason has been behind many investments in SaaS startups like Talkdesk, Algolia, Greenhouse, Automile, Betterworks, RainforestQA, and others which are collectively worth over one billion dollars.

We talk to Jason about the evolution of SaaStr, company stages and successful SaaS growth strategies.

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James Allworth was the Director of Strategy at Medallia, a Sequoia-backed experience startup. He writes for Harvard Business Review and is the author of the New York Times best-seller - How will you measure your life?. He also co- hosts the hugely popular exponent.fm podcast with Ben Thompson.

We talk to James about ERP systems, financial and customer focused companies, and how the new economy calls for new measurement tools.

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Our guest on the Subscribed Podcast is Kevin Towes, Head of Business Development at Adobe Video and Advertising Solutions. He has more than two decades of experience within the broadcast and film industries and has played key roles in the evolution of video technology.

We talk to Kevin about the exciting world of TV Everywhere, the state of the media industry today and the future of OTT Video.

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Our guest on the Subscribed Podcast is Nils Vinje, a partner at Glide Consulting, a Customer Success consulting firm that helps VC-funded startups and Fortune 1000 companies lay the foundation for customer success and make renewals and expansions inevitable.

We talk to Nils on the evolution of customer success teams, the 4 Ps that are crucial to success and other best practices.

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