5 Interesting Things, Blog Posts, Scale
When we last checked in on Asana, they were at $240m in ARR growing an incredible 55% a year. You might expect growth to slow in such a highly competitive…
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Blog Posts, Exit Strategy, Scale
There’s been a run of incredible M&A, from Salesforce buying Slack for $27B, to Qualtrics’ $8b acquisition by SAP (and later IPO at $20b+), to Github’s $7.5b exit to Microsoft…
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Blog Posts, Fundraising, Scale
So every day there are more and more massive funding rounds But where does all that money >come from<? 1/ From "Limited Partners", the ones that give VCs $ to…
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Blog Posts, Scale
The late-stage VC firm Meritech put together its annual SaaS report here and it slices the data in a few interesting ways. A few tidbits of particular interest: 1. The…
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5 Interesting Things, Blog Posts, Scale
So an interesting IPO you may have missed is Braze. Braze a decade ago took a next-generation approach to marketing automation software, focused on being mobile and messaging first. In…
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Blog Posts, Scale
The Wall Street Journal had a great summary of IPOs in 2021 and before. One of the top takeaways is the sheet rate of IPO creation. Much as Unicorn creation…
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Blog Posts, Engineering, Featured Podcasts, Featured Videos, Podcasts, Scale, Videos
Join GitLab CEO, Sid Sijbrandij, as he discusses GitLab’s journey to $5B, choosing the right business model that balances high revenue potential and community contributions, and co-creating the product with the wider community to deliver safer software faster.
Blog Posts, Scale
We don’t often summarize interviews in other media, but I really liked this piece in FT on the changes Yamini Ragan made when she became HubSpot’s CEO, promoted from CCO. …
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5 Interesting Things, Blog Posts, Scale
Every once in a while a startup just plain executes from Day 1. It doesn’t happen often, and it’s never quite as linear as it looks. But Samara’s incredible growth…
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Blog Posts, Scale
So if you haven’t noticed, public SaaS stocks have taken a big tumble recently as the market has gotten nervous about expensive SaaS and Cloud stocks. Cloud companies that…
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Blog Posts, Scale
It can be hard to grok just how powerful compounding revenue is A SaaS company at $10m ARR growing at 100% YoY has a decent chance to hit $1B in…
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Blog Posts, Scale
If you follow the public markets, you can see a lot of top SaaS stocks recently have been hit — hard. Zoom has taken a hit as its growth at…
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5 Interesting Things, Blog Posts, Scale
So C3.ai is one of those enterprise software companies ($2m customers on average) you hear about and see their billboards but are never quite sure what they do. The founding…
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Blog Posts, Scale
Unicorns and even Decacorns are all we talk about in SaaS today. Does it make sense? Can the market really support 300+ SaaS and Cloud Unicorns? Well, maybe. Why? There…
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Blog Posts, Featured Podcasts, Featured Videos, Growth, Hiring, Leadership, Podcasts, Scale, Videos
You’re the founder of a nicely growing SaaS startup that has just raised a Series A, Series B, or Series C funding round. You need to hire rapidly to seize the opportunity. But how much should you hire, what roles should you hire, and what should the org chart look like when you’re done?
David Sacks, co-founder and general partner at Craft will share what works from the 20 unicorns he’s invested in, including AirBnB, ClickUp, Slack, SpaceX, Twitter, Uber, and Wish.