Sahai: Platform and partner strategies maximize enterprise software stickiness
Avanish Sahai · Learn from Silicon Valley’s Best Companies (Hubspot, Google & Salesforce) w/Avanish Sahai · Nov 7, 2025 · at 22:54
Avanish Sahai outlines enterprise scaling playbooks derived from his time at Salesforce, Oracle, and ServiceNow.
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“How do you bring other capabilities through a platform strategy and then think about partners who can augment that? The more you do that, frankly, the more sticky you become, the harder you are to displace.”
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