by Amelia Ibarra | Feb 6, 2024 | Blog Posts, Customer Success, Customer Success, Early, Featured Podcasts, Featured Videos, Podcasts, Videos, Workshop Wednesdays |
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.
by Amelia Ibarra | Feb 2, 2024 | Blog Posts, Compensation, Early, Featured Posts, Featured Videos, Fundraising, Leadership, Podcasts, Sales, Videos |
At Pavilion’s CEO Summit, SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin, took the stage to share what’s most top of mind for him at the start of 2024.
by Amelia Ibarra | Jan 31, 2024 | Blog Posts, CRO Confidential, Featured Podcasts, Featured Videos, Podcasts, Sales, Sales, Scale, Videos |
In this week’s latest episode of CRO Confidential, Sam Blond, Partner at Founders Fund and former CRO at Brex, sits down with the CRO of Splunk, Christian Smith. Splunk is a 20-year-old Enterprise software giant that has accomplished many things — a 2012 IPO, a $28B+...
by Amelia Ibarra | Jan 27, 2024 | Blog Posts, Featured Podcasts, Featured Videos, Leadership, Podcasts, Scale, Videos, What's New At |
This is SaaStr’s What’s New series where our very own CEO and Founder, Jason Lemkin, sits down with the top CEOs and leaders in SaaS to discuss What’s New, what’s top of mind, and what every SaaS founder should be thinking about. In today’s installment, Jason sits down with Matt Mullenweg, CEO of Automatic and Co-Founder of WordPress on what’s new at WordPress.
by Amelia Ibarra | Jan 12, 2024 | Blog Posts, Customer Success, Customer Success, Early, Podcasts, Videos, Workshop Wednesdays |
Is it the end of an era for customer success in SaaS? SaaStr CEO Nick Mehta joins SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin to share their prediction for 2024.
by Amelia Ibarra | Jan 5, 2024 | Blog Posts, CRO Confidential, Early, Featured Podcasts, Featured Videos, Podcasts, Sales, Sales, Videos |
In the latest episode of CRO Confidential, host Sam Blond, partner at Founders Fund and former CRO at Brex, sits down with Ashley Kelly, VP of Global Sales Development at Rippling. Together they share how they scaled an outbound sales team from $0 to $300 million and how you can replicate their success step-by-step.
by Amelia Ibarra | Dec 22, 2023 | Blog Posts, Featured Videos, Growth, Podcasts, Product |
At the SaaStr Annual, Kiren Sekar, Samsara’s Chief Strategy Officer and founding chief Product Officer shared five lessons he learned along the way from scaling six products to $100M+. The six products/companies Kiren helped scale to $100M that he’ll reference in this playbook include: Bill, Cloudflare, Crowdstrike, Samsara, Snowflake, and Zscaler.
by Amelia Ibarra | Dec 20, 2023 | Blog Posts, Featured Podcasts, Featured Posts, Featured Videos, Growth, Podcasts, Sales, Scale, Videos, What's New At |
In the latest installment of SaaStr’s What’s New series – where we sit down with the leaders in SaaS and Cloud for the inside scoop on what’s top of mind and what’s new, SaaStr CEO and Jason Lemkin chats with the CEO of ZoomInfo, Henry Schuck. In this episode, Jason and Henry discuss: PLG vs. a sales-led motion, and which is more efficient, the macro-environment in SaaS and what to expect next year, and of course,What’s new at ZoomInfo.
by Amelia Ibarra | Dec 13, 2023 | Blog Posts, Early, Featured Podcasts, Featured Posts, Featured Videos, Growth, Leadership, Marketing, Metrics, Podcasts, Sales, Videos |
Come learn from SaaStr OG and fan fave, Dave Kellogg, EIR at Balderton Capital, as he walks you through the complexities of SaaS metrics. With a wealth of experience leading major SaaS and enterprise software firms, Dave will delve into the art of leveraging metrics for strategic advantage and the potential pitfalls of their misinterpretation. This session will equip you with a nuanced understanding of how SaaS metrics can shape success and why careful interpretation is paramount.
by Amelia Ibarra | Dec 6, 2023 | Blog Posts, Featured Podcasts, Featured Videos, Leadership, Podcasts, Product, Scale, Videos, What's New At |
In our ‘What’s New’ series, SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin sits down with the top CEOs from leading SaaS companies to discuss What’s New and what’s top of mind. In this episode, Jason sits down with Aaron Levie, CEO and Co-Founder of Box, and also a SaaStr-fan fave from speaking at various SaaStr events in-person and digitally. Together they discuss: How to go long as a CEO and Founder in SaaS, Overhauling operating margins at Box to a top-tier 25%, Macro issues on the horizon for 2024, Incorporating AI and LLMs into the product and What’s new at Box.
by Amelia Ibarra | Dec 1, 2023 | Blog Posts, Early, Featured Podcasts, Featured Videos, Hiring, Podcasts, Sales, Videos, Workshop Wednesdays |
Hiring a VP of Sales isn’t new, but the conversations have evolved as the world has. SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin shares the top 10 mistakes he sees.
by Amelia Ibarra | Nov 30, 2023 | Blog Posts, Early, Exit Strategy, Featured Videos, Growth, Leadership, Podcasts, Sales, Videos |
A holistic and well-executed go-to-market strategy is one of the key pillars that drives sustainable, long-term growth for software companies. But there is a dearth of data that leaders can leverage to inform building out the best team, strategies, and tactics to scale their go-to-market organization. Leveraging proprietary data from over 200 leading GTM executives and tens of thousands of data points related to executive profiles across Sales and Marketing leaders, Doug Pepper, General Partner, and Christine Edmonds, General Partner and Head of Analytics at ICONIQ Growth will share detailed answers to the key go-to-market questions from B2B SaaS leaders including: the latest insights on what “effective” scaling means in today’s environment, the best practices for building out GTM teams and processes, learnings related to what profiles make the most successful IPO-ready executive hires, and how top companies are tweaking tactics in today’s environment to drive efficient selling.
by Amelia Ibarra | Nov 25, 2023 | Blog Posts, Company Culture, Featured Podcasts, Featured Videos, Growth, Hiring, Leadership, Marketing, Podcasts, Sales, Sales, Videos |
After a period in 2021 known as “The Party”, where salespeople earned more while working less, businesses are shifting focus from measuring effort to emphasizing revenue generation. As the market bounces back, learn 5 ways to get back to hitting revenue targets with Jameson Yung, SVP of Sales at Gong, and Sam Blond, Partner at Founders Fund and previous CRO at Brex.
by Amelia Ibarra | Nov 17, 2023 | Artificial Intelligence (AI), Blog Posts, Featured Podcasts, Featured Videos, Podcasts, Videos |
As AI continues to reshape the way businesses operate, it has become a critical differentiator in gaining a competitive edge. Stage 2 Capital Co-founder and Managing Director Mark Roberge dissects the advantages and challenges faced by both startups and incumbents in leveraging AI for Go-to-Market strategies. Uncover the unique capabilities that startups bring to the table and how they disrupt established players with their agility, innovation, and ability to adapt to changing market dynamics.
by Amelia Ibarra | Nov 15, 2023 | Blog Posts, Featured Podcasts, Featured Videos, Growth, Leadership, Podcasts, Videos |
Discover four critical lessons for maintaining hypergrowth on your journey from nothing to $100M and beyond with the CEO and co-founder of Amplitude.