Top 10 Learnings about Free Trials with Tomasz Tunguz
As we gear up for 2024 SaaStr Annual in September in SF Bay Area, we’re taking a look back at some of the top sessions from years past. Tomasz Tunguz, now Managing Director of Theory Ventures (and then MD with Redpoint Ventures) is back at 2024 SaaStr Annual....
Just Between Two CEOs: Dev Ittycheria of MongoDB and Jyoti Bansal of Harness.io and AppDynamics
Two successful SaaS leaders talk about product alignment, freemium models, having an open-source product and other topics in SaaS we all want answers to.
How to Build Happier Employees – Lessons From HubSpot’s CTO Dharmesh Shah and Chief People Officer Katie Burke
At SaaStr Annual we had a great session with HubSpot Founder & CTO, Dharmesh Shah, and their Chief People Officer, Katie Burke, on building happier employees. We’ve had a ton of great HubSpot content over the years but you may have missed this one, and it...
A Look Back: Olivier Pomel, CEO of Datadog at $100,000,000 in ARR
As we gear up for SaaStr Europa 2024 back again in London on 4-5 June and SaaStr Annual 2024 in the SF Bay Area on September 10-12, 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....
A Look Back: Hypergrowth, No Office and $100M in ARR with Seth Shaw, ex-CRO Airtable and CCO at Invision
Seth Shaw was most recently CRO at Airtable, and before that, CCO at Invision and VPS at Wrike. He was one of the early sales leaders managing a distributed sales team, and it’s interesting to look back at his 2019 talk at SaaStr on just how hard it can be...
The Top 5 Questions Every CEO Wrestles With – Lessons From Dave Kellogg (Video + Transcript)
We’re almost there!! 2023 SaaStrAnnual.com!! And while 85% of our speakers are new, we’ve also brought back some of our all-time favorites — with brand new content. That includes Dave Kellog, the former CEO of Host Analytics and prolific blogger. ...
A Look Back: “SaaS Metrics Masterclass with Stripe’s Head of France and Southern Europe, Guillaume Princen” (Video + Transcript)
In the run up to SaaStr Europa 2022 in Barcelona on June 7-8, we’re taking a look at some of the top all-time SaaStr Europa sessions. Want to know what to expect at SaaStr Europa? Check out this 2018 Europa session with Guillaume Princen, Head of France and Southern...
A Look Back: “Top Lessons Learned from Our Best and Worst Marketing Experiments” with Lucidchart Co-Founder Karl Sun (Video + Transcript)
In the run up to SaaStr Europa 2022 in Barcelona on June 7-8, we’re taking a look at some of the top all-time SaaStr Europa sessions. In 2019, Karl Sun joined us to share some of LucidChart’s most interesting marketing experiments. Karl co-founded Lucid in 2010...
A Look Back: “Land, Expand, Explode: How to Win the Long-Game in SaaS” Egnyte Chief Customer Officer and Co-Founder Rajesh Ram (Video + Transcript)
In the run up to SaaStr Europa 2022 in Barcelona on June 7-8, we’re taking a look at some of the top all-time SaaStr Europa sessions. In 2019, Egnyte Co-Founder Rajesh Ram joined us in Paris to talk about going long in SaaS. The SaaS business model has risen to...
7 Lessons Helping Start Calendly, SalesLoft and Pardot (Video + Transcript)
As part of the run up to SaaStr Annual, we’re taking a look back at some of our favorite classic sessions. (And grab the best deal ever on Annual tickets here). One great session you may have missed is from David Cummings, the seed investor in Calendly,...
How we did it: Gender Equality, Equal Pay, and Racial Equality with Salesforce (Video + Transcript)
“You can just stand by the wall and be quiet, “I don’t agree, but I’m not getting involved.” And that’s the definition of privilege, ladies and gentlemen.” Join Molly Ford, Salesforce Global Equality Programs Senior Director, and Leyla Seka, Salesforce VP...
8 Tough Lessons from Closing 12,000 Customers at WebPT (Video + Transcript)
WebPT achieved 30% market share and transformed an entire vertical with a purpose-built solution in a tech-averse industry. In this session, hear from three women who founded, funded and are leading WebPT, one of the nation’s fastest-growing SaaS companies in the...
Matching Price to Value: 3 Lessons in Monetization from Menlo Ventures (Video + Transcript)
SaaS is about creating long-term value for your customer, and being compensated appropriately for that value as a business. Learn actionable monetization tips from a Product/Growth operator turned VC. Want to see more content like this? Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020....
Small Business Will Drive the Next Billion for SaaS with Kabbage (Video + Transcript)
Representing 98% of all U.S. businesses, 57% of all U.S. jobs and more than half of all non-farming GDP, small business is big business. As one of the most difficult markets to enter and succeed, how can new and old SaaS providers win with SMBs? Want to see more...
Industry News
- OpenAI’s Altman Concentrates Power on Path to $157 Billion Valuation
- Crescendo raises $50M for its AI-powered customer service platform - SiliconANGLE
- Snowflake, Databricks back $20M round for AI data management startup Voyage AI - SiliconANGLE
- Investors are scrambling to get into ElevenLabs, which may soon be valued at $3 billion
- OpenAI raises $6.6 billion in largest VC round ever
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- Mastercard agrees to buy subscription management software startup Minna
- Eon emerges from stealth with $127M to bring a fresh approach to backing up cloud infrastructure
- Palantir's Valuation Is A Lord Of The Rings Fantasy
- Equinix raises $15B in new capital to invest in xScale data centers to meet AI demand