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“My App Stack” is a new series where we dig in with top CMOs, CROs, CTOs and CEOs on just what apps they’re really using to run their business. I always learn a lot from these — they are in essence a best practices list from each leader. Last week we had a great one…
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Casey Renner, partner at Openview, grabbed 3 of our great speakers from 2021 SaaStr Annual to do 3 fun, short walks-and-talks. All 3 are worth a watch! CEO of Algolia, Bernadette Nixon. First up was a walk-and-talk with one of my favorite CEOs, Bernadette Nixon of Aloglia. I was lucky enough to be the first…
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A small part of SaaStr has been learnings from and tracking some of my investments. Enough time has gone by that we can step back and learn from some of them. The first 3 went from seed -> unicorn/decacorn (and the 4th exited for $800m, and the 6th also has become a unicorn). The first…
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The other day I checked in with Bernadette Nixon, the new CEO of search-as-service leader Algolia. Aloglia’s been a part of SaaStr content and events since the beginning, and I invested at $12k in MRR, and wrote about that here. With Bernadette now joining to power the company to $1B ARR and beyond, I thought…
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The CMO and team at Algolia did a session with me a while back on the top mistakes founders make in the early days. While some of it was familiar territory, I thought it was a pretty fun discussion with a different perspective in many cases than we’ve touched on before. Check out the session…
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After SaaStr Europa, we had a second, more informal event a few days later at the breathtaking headquarters of Algolia. Over 240 founders and execs got together to talk about classic SaaStr learnings and mistakes in scaling that first $10m in ARR. The full video is below. A bunch of the themes and points you…
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I’m an investor in Algolia so take my comments with a grain of salt. But also, we deployed Algolia to SaaStr fairly early in their WordPress development (David Skok also did the same on his For Entrepreneurs blog which serves a similar audience), and we are a WordPress blog running truly at scale (many many…
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Before I ever made a single investment, I was 100% heads down running my own SaaS company. I remember asking Jason Green of Emergence Capital (my 2x investor), back in the day, how pre-IPO Successfactors was doing, where he was also on the board. Successfactors later went on to a very successful IPO and then…
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Much of SaaStr involves sharing my learnings, mistakes, improvements, etc. as a founder CEO that lived the journey from $0 to $100m in ARR. But do I practice what I preach? I hope so. Let’s take a look together. Recently, I was fortunate enough to invest what I believe is an outstanding SaaS company and service,…
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As we gear up for SaaStr Europa 2023 in London on 6-7 June and SaaStr Annual 2023 in the SF Bay Area on 6-7 September, we wanted to take a look back at some of our most iconic speakers and sessions from over the year, that we can still learn from today. At the very first SaaStr Annual in…
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