Blog Posts, Exit, Exit Strategy, Featured Videos, SaaStr Events, Videos
Listen to the story of how Craig Walker, Founder & CEO at Dialpad acquired TalkIQ for $50M in 2018. With one startup acquired by Yahoo in 2005, another acquired by…
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Exit, Marketing, Marketing, Podcasts
Leela Srinivasan is the CMO of SurveyMonkey. Join her as she takes you through her seven tips for using customer feedback and building rabid fans. Consistently ramping your ARR is…
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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Company Culture, Engineering, Exit, Featured Videos, Fundraising, Hiring, Leadership, Marketing, Product, SaaStr Events, Videos
Join Zoom Founder and CEO Eric Yuan and SaaStr COO Mallun Yen as they delve into the secrets of Zoom’s success. Eric talks about the early days of Zoom –…
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Company Culture, Exit, Hiring, Podcasts, Product
Leyla Seka is the executive vice president of the Salesforce Mobile platform experience. Over Leyla’s incredible 11 year journey with Salesforce she has seen the team scale from 1,800 to…
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Company Culture, Exit, Hiring, Podcasts
At Atlassian, openness is core to everything the company does: employees can access most information on Confluence; “open company, no bullshit” is one of the company’s five values. But it…
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Career Growth & Advice, Exit, Exit Strategy, Hiring, Leadership, Podcasts
Jeff Lawson is the Founder & CEO @ Twilio, the company building the future of communications allowing you to engage customers like never before on voice, SMS, WhatsApp or Video….
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Company Culture, Customer Success, Exit, Podcasts
Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Stripe today has…
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Exit, Exit Strategy, Featured Podcasts, Fundraising, Podcasts
Qualtrics Co-Founder and CEO Ryan Smith sits down with SaaStr Founder and CEO Jason Lemkin as Ryan reflects on the survey software maker’s acquisition by SAP this year. The company…
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Exit, Featured Podcasts, Podcasts, Sales, Sales
Welcome to Episode 214! Erica Schultz is Chief Revenue Officer @ New Relic, the company that gives you the real time insights your software driven business needs to innovate faster….
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Exit, Featured Podcasts, Marketing, Marketing, Podcasts
Welcome to Episode 198! Maria Pergolino is the CMO @ Anaplan, the company that allows you to accelerate decision-making with effective planning. Anaplan had a wildly successful IPO earlier this year…
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Career Growth & Advice, Exit, Exit Strategy, Leadership, Q&A
Much better the first time than the second. The first time we sold, I had far exceeded any expectations I had as a founder. First, I barely believed I could…
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Goodness. Congratulations on the IPO! But what and how to sell is really a tough one. If you’d sold shares in almost any SaaS/Cloud IPO in the past 7 years,…
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I was just with a founder who owns 40% of his startup. He just turned down an offer for $500,000,000 to sell his startup to a public company. He is…
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Career Growth & Advice, Exit, Exit Strategy, Leadership, Q&A
At least for me, it felt great for about a day. Big bottles of champagne, recognition “we did it”, etc. IPO’ing truly is one of the most iconic Silicon Valley…
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It seems like a pretty good deal for Recruit Holdings, and market correct. If Glassdoor was at about ~$100m ARR growing 30% a year (suggested by press, but I have…
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