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 CMO of Google Cloud, Alison Wagonfeld.
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.
The landscape for Go-to-Market (GTM) will be changing over the next 12 months in terms of roles within GTM, in combination with how buyers make purchases and the decision-makers involved. Mandy Cole, Partner at Stage 2 Capital, shares the five steps every company needs to take to build their first GTM playbook centered around the buyer.
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.
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.
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.
Discover four critical lessons for maintaining hypergrowth on your journey from nothing to $100M and beyond with the CEO and co-founder of Amplitude.
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