While AI seems to have gone mainstream for consumers and smaller SaaS companies, but what about the big guys? While the first generation of Generative AI is great, it’s not quite ready to solve Enterprise problems. So, where are we now in the adoption cycle for the Enterprise world?Â
We brought together an Enterprise SaaS panel with:
Douwe Kiela, CEO of ContextualAI
Benjamin Mann, co-founder of Anthropic
Arvind Jain, CEO of Glean
and Sandhya Hedge, General Partner at Unusual VC,Â
To help us figure out how to sell GenAI software to some of the biggest organizations in the world.Â
Is it the end of an era for customer success in SaaS? SaaStr CEO Nick Mehta joins SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin to share their prediction for 2024.
In this CMO panel from SaaStr, Rick Schultz, CMO at Databricks, Janine Pelosi, Former CMO at Zoom, and Ryan Carlson, Former CMO at Okta, joined Carilu Dietrich, Advisor at Hypergrowth B2B Startups to talk about the seven biggest mistakes CMOs make. These CMOs have all taken their companies from the early stages through IPOs and have been apart of multi-billion dollar organizations. Here are the 7 big mistakes they made, so you can avoid them.Â
In the latest episode of CRO Confidential, host Sam Blond, partner at Founders Fund and former CRO at Brex, sits down with Ashley Kelly, VP of Global Sales Development at Rippling. Together they share how they scaled an outbound sales team from $0 to $300 million and how you can replicate their success step-by-step.
In the latest installment of our What’s New At series, Jason Lemkin, SaaStr CEO and Founder sits down with Shrav Mehta, CEO of Secureframe to chat about the intersection of AI and security and the increasing importance of compliance in B2B SaaS companies.
In this episode, they’ll discuss:
* When and why you need SOC-2 and ISO ISO 27001 compliance as a SaaS company
* The Intersection of AI and Security
* Compliance in Year Two and Beyond in SaaS
* Differences in Servicing SMBs and Enterprises
* Re-bundling of Software Services
15 years after launch and at over $1B in ARR, 33 of Zendesk’s 50 largest customers were startups that scaled up as customers. Today, Zendesk continues to drive a significant percentage of new business through the Zendesk for Startups program, supporting the startup ecosystem in search of the next generation of top customers. During this session, we’ll hear from Brad Bowery who leads the program at Zendesk on why Startups may be the missing segment in your Go-To-Market approach. Learn the various ways Zendesk and its peers approach this segment and get some insight from insiders on how to succeed when courting VCs and their portfolio companies.
In part one of this week’s Ask-Me-Anything (AMA) with SaaStr founder and CEO Jason Lemkin, he answered the community’s questions about whether all anyone cares about is AI anymore, investor appetites going into 2024, vertical SaaS, and thriving as a solo founder....
In the first part of this open Ask-Me-Anything (AMA), Jason shares his thoughts on the current state of sales and marketing, if anyone really cares about anything other than AI anymore, how to hire great partners, and breaking out of a crowded ecosystem.
At the SaaStr Annual, Kiren Sekar, Samsara’s Chief Strategy Officer and founding chief Product Officer shared five lessons he learned along the way from scaling six products to $100M+. The six products/companies Kiren helped scale to $100M that he’ll reference in this playbook include: Bill, Cloudflare, Crowdstrike, Samsara, Snowflake, and Zscaler.Â
Jamin Ball, Partner at Altimeter Capital and author of Clouded Judgement, takes us through the current state of SaaS and what we should expect in 2024.Â
