Having invested in public cloud unicorns such as Shopify, Twilio, SendGrid, and Box (just to name a few), we think it’s safe to say that Bessemer Venture Partners has its finger on the pulse when it comes to predicting the next big thing. What up-and-coming...
When Karen Appleton Page first joined Box, it was an eight-person startup who still held most of their meetings at Starbucks. Together with Aaron Levie and their small team, Karen helped grow Box in the company it is today by building on the strength of partnerships....
One company, two sides of the funding debate. Medallia, #7 on Forbes’ 2017 top 100 private SaaS companies, bootstrapped for 10 years, then took $255M in investment from Sequoia Capital over the past 6+ years. Company co-founder Amy Pressman talks about the pros...
What keeps CEOs up at night? Shareholders, competition, the next big thing? Sure, but there are many other challenges. Modern CEOs are also thinking about how to build inclusive workforces, how their companies will positively impact the world, or what societal issues...
What’s it really like to scale a business from a few users to $100m ARR and 7 million users? Michelle Zatlyn, co‑founder and COO of Cloudflare, sits down with Laura Bilazarian, CEO, co‑founder of Teamable, to share her 10 toughest lessons that she learned while...
We were so excited to have Slack’s very own CEO and Co-Founder, Stewart Butterfield, back on our stage this year to kick off SaaStr Annual 2018! Alongside Forbes reporter, Alex Konrad, Stewart and Alex took center stage as our opening keynote to have an open...
We’re rolling out an amazing speaker list for our first ever SaaStr Europa in Paris on 15 June! March is the last chance for Early Bird tickets at just $299 so get ’em here right now! ($250 each if you bring your team) We’ll have amazing speakers...
Post written by, Clayton Whitfield, Chief Customer Officer, SaaSOptics Sometimes in life, making ends meet is the only option. We’ve all faced situations where doing the thing that is “good enough for now” is the only option. Managing the financial operations of your...
Post written by guest blogger Alli McKee. This year’s SaaStr made it clear: there is more growth – and competition – than ever. This doesn’t come as a surprise, of course. But it is one thing to read about it, and another to experience it live in the...
Post written by guest blogger Drew Beechler. 2018 marks my third SaaStr Annual conference, and the content and conference keeps getting better! Sitting through the sessions this year, there was a great deal to learn from companies of all sizes and backgrounds...
Post written by guest blogger Meena Sandhu. Why are you at SaaStr? Why am I at SaaStr? Why does this community congregate and grow year over year? Is it the content? The networking? The answer seems simple: we’re all here because there’s nowhere else that we can have...
Post written by guest blogger Chris Cooper. As with any conference the size of SaaStr, you must make some important choices. Do you pack your schedule, filling every possible time slot? Or, should you cooly hang by the bar and network? Which session do you attend when...
Post written by guest blogger, Jen Igartua. A commitment to diversity, kickass content and… dogs. Last year, I attended SaaStr Annual for the first time. As a partner of a SaaS consultancy, the existence an event solely targeted to SaaS companies immediately drew me...
Post written by Plato HQ. The excitement is palpable—in just a few short days, thousands of founders, executives, and VCs will be gathering in San Francisco to share their stories, exchange ideas, and meet like-minded folks at the SaaStr Annual event from February...
We were very happy to have the Salesforce “Mafia,” consisting of four executives–three who have since moved onto their next ventures–on the Strategy Stage so they could discuss some important lessons learned from being a part of the 19-year-old SaaS...
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