Hiring a Great VP of Sales: The New, Latest Edition with Jason Lemkin (Video + Pod)
Ready to elevate your sales game in 2024? Join Jason Lemkin as he updates SaaStr’s classic insights on hiring the perfect VP of Sales and navigating common pitfalls.
The Secrets to Scaling and Growth in Uncertain Times with Monday.com Co-Founder and Co-CEO Eran Zinman
monday.com is a $700m+ company today, which is 100x bigger than it was just six years ago. Discover the Co-Founder and Co-CEO’s secrets to scaling and growth in an unpredictable market.
The Future of AI, Open Source, and Enterprise SaaS: Where It’s All Going with Databricks’ CEO, Ali Ghodsi (Podcast and Video)
Ali Ghodsi, CEO and Co-Founder of Databricks shares the value open-source software has delivered for enterprises and the current state of open-source.
The Secrets to Scaling to $2 Billion+ in ARR With HubSpot Co-founders Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah
We’re gearing up for our biggest, best-est SaaStr Annual 2024 (Sep 10-12 in SF Bay again!) As part of that, we’re taking a look back at some of the best sessions ever. When both of HubSpot’s co-founders came to Annual to share their top learnings...Where SaaS Really is Today with Founder & General Partner of Craft Ventures David Sacks and SaaStr Founder Jason Lemkin (Video + Podcast)
Jason Lemkin, SaaStr CEO and Founder, and David Sacks, Founder and General Partner of Craft Ventures, share their predictions on SaaS in 2024.
7 Marketing Hot Takes with SaaStr Founder and CEO Jason Lemkin on the Exit Five Podcast
SaaStr Founder and CEO Jason Lemkin sits down with Exit Five’s Dave Gerhardt to talk all things marketing in SaaS and shares his 7 Marketing Hot Takes
Snowflake CMO Denise Persson: Building Your Marketing Strategy to The First $100,000,000 in ARR
Denise Persson, the CMO of Snowflake, shares the five secrets to a winning marketing strategy to grow your company’s revenue and cement customer loyalty.
How to Build Go-to-Market Efficiency in SMB Sales with Owner.com CRO Kyle Norton
How do you build GTM efficiency in SMB sales? The CRO at Owner, Kyle Norton, shares his learnings and strategies for building better efficiency into your GTM motion.
While this title is SMB-oriented, the advice applies to Mid-Market and Enterprise, too. The three topics we’ll focus on are:
The importance of staying focused and how to say no.
Ways to scale that don’t include rampant inefficiency and burn.
How to build operational excellence into your organization at different stages of the growth curve.
How to Pitch Your Seed Stage Startup with Y Combinator’s Michael Seibel (Video + Podcast)
Discover the best ways for a seed-stage startup to pitch to investors and successfully fundraise from Y Combinator’s Michael Seibel.
How Shopify Implements AI Across Sales and Product with Mike Tamir, Head of AI at Shopify, and Rudina Seseri, Managing Partner at Glasswing Ventures
Mike Tamir, Head of AI at Shopify, and Rudina Seseri, founder and Managing Partner at Glasswing Ventures, level-set about where we are in the cycle for Enterprises adopting AI and the critical work being done at Shopify to leverage AI and solve real problems.
How To Reverse-Engineer a $100M Exit: SaaStr on My First Million Pod
How do you reverse-engineer your first million as a SaaS startup founder? SaaStr founder and CEO Jason Lemkin chats with Sam Parr on the popular YouTube channel and podcast My First Million about what’s required to make it on the map for a $100M exit and then reverse engineers the steps to get there.
Rule 1: New minimum is $400K per employee
Rule 2: Go multi-product
Rule 3: Your second product must be bigger than your first product
Cheat code: Double your prices
Rule 4: 30% of your revenue is international
Rule 5: Localize your product
Cheat code: Remove friction
Rule 6: 100% net revenue retention
Rule 7: Don’t raise double digit millions
What I Learned Selling My Company for $130M with Harry Glaser Founder of Periscope Data and ModelBit
Harry Glaser of Periscope Data and ModelBit shares his experience of selling his SaaS company for $130M and the challenges he faced during the process.
CRO Confidential: Bringing Product-Led and Sales-Led Growth Together For Go-To-Market Success with Giancarlo Lionetti, CRO of Zapier
In this latest episode of CRO Confidential, Sam Blond, Partner at Founders Fund and former CRO at Brex, sits down with the CRO of Zapier, Giancarlo Lionetti (GC), to chat about Product-Led Growth (PLG) and Go-To-Market (GTM). Everything from hiring on the GTM side to layering in a sales-led motion into PLG.
Nick Mehta, CEO of Gainsight, and Jason Lemkin, CEO of SaaStr: Answer Your Top 10 2024 Customer Success Questions
Nick Mehta, CEO of Gainsight, and Jason Lemkin, CEO of SaaStr, answer your Top 10 SaaS Customer Success Questions of 2024 and what they mean going into 2024.