In this session, Sean Wester, VP Product Marketing at Salesloft, moderates an in-depth discussion with Rob Forman, Co-founder at Salesloft, and David Cancel, CEO at Drift, about how you can get the absolute most out of your engineering team. As the leader of your...
The #1 issue in my experiences tends to be the wrong management DNA. Even with Slack, Zoom, Trello, and 10,000 other tools … it’s harder to manage people remotely. Add crazy differences in time zones, and it gets even harder. In my experience, it all works well if the...
Welcome to Episode 127! Ryan Carson is the Founder & CEO of Treehouse, the startup that teaches you to code and learn the skills needed to launch a new career. They have backing from some of the best investors in the business including the likes of Social...
In a world where self-driving cars can move across Europe by themselves and claims staff are being laid off at an insurance company because of an effective algorithm, how can SaaS companies adapt to this new reality? In this talk, Ludo Ulrich, Head of Startup...
Jyoti Bansal, Founder & Chairman of AppDynamics joined SaaStr’s Jason Lemkin on stage at SaaStr Annual 2017 to give us the inside scoop on his 11th-hour decision to sell to Cisco rather than going public — and the path he took to get IPO-ready. Jason...
Welcome to Episode 114! Tom Tunguz is a Partner at Redpoint Ventures and one of the pre-eminent thought leaders in the rise of SaaS. Tom has made investments in the likes of Demio, Axial, Chorus.ai, and more incredible companies. Tomasz is also the co-author...
Welcome to Episode 97! Douglas Hanna is the GM of the Developer Platform of Zendesk, one of the world’s fastest growing SaaS startups. Before joining Zendesk, Douglas was the Founder & CEO at Help.com where he grew the business from 1 to 16. Prior to Help, Douglas...
At least in the enterprise — Optionally. And without letting anyone but the admin / buyer roll out any changes. The biggest freak-out you will get from your large customers, from large enterprises that are depending on your services to run their core business is...
Welcome to Episode #4! I am thrilled to welcome Shardul Shah, Partner at Index Ventures to the show today. Shardul is the sole member of the Index team to have worked in all Index’s offices around the world in Geneva, London, and SF. Now in SF, Shardul focuses...
Jason M. Lemkin Because it doesn’t matter. First, middle and later stage investments (post-traction) don’t really require you to understand the technology or even the product per se. Because by then … it’s proven. However the magic dust...
So many things have gotten better on the product side of SaaS in the past few years. Amazing tools, the evolution of AWS as “enterprise grade”, so many great things. One thing I am less impressed with though is the evolution of SaaS security —...
Why do software engineers make so much? Because there’s a time from about $5m in ARR to $80m in ARR when It Doesn’t Matter. When you start off, just trying to get to $1m in ARR … engineers are sooo expensive. Everything is, really. But this...
Did you happen to notice that an AWS outage took down Pinterest, Airbnb, Foursquare and a ton of other web leaders the other day? The root cause analysis: a memory leak. = Cascading failures. = Doesn’t matter how load balanced you are, it’s all going...