Everything that Breaks on the Way to $1B ARR with Mailchimp Co-Founder Ben Chestnut
Ben Chestnut, Mailchimp’s Co-Founder, talks Everything that Breaks on the Way to $1B ARR and their $12B Acquisition with SaaStr Founder & CEO Jason Lemkin
The Key to AI Success: Your Data with Oracle Netsuite
It’s a great time to do business in the U.K. Many likely have heard that the Bank of England will be cutting interest rates, wages are growing faster than inflation, and companies are taking advantage of the situation. EMEA Oracle NetSuite SVP Nicky Tozer and COO Ham...
The 3 Principles for Building a Multi-Product Roadmap with 1Password CPO Steve Won
1Password’s Chief Product Officer, Steve Won, walks through the 3 Key Principles for Building a Successful Multi-Product Roadmap.
How Your Sales Team Can Use PLG to Acquire and Expand New Customers Faster with Uday Chakravarth, Former Head of PLG at Atlassian
Atlassian’s Former Head of PLG, Uday Chakravarthi, walks through how your sales team can use PLG to acquire and expand next customers, faster.
5 Lessons Learned When Scaling Product-Led Growth and Sales Motions Beyond $100M with Cloudinary VP of Developer Experience Sanjay Sarathy
Cloudinary VP of Developer Experience Sanjay Sarathy shares 5 Lessons Learned When Scaling Product-Led Growth and Sales Motions Beyond $100M
The Top 5 Secrets for Building Great Products with Leaders at Slack, Rubrik, and Grammarly
Chief Product Officers from Slack, Rubrik and Grammarly dive into the top 5 secrets to building great products and talk alignment, roadmaps and vision
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.
12 Things You’ll Look Back On in SaaS … And Regret (Updated)
A little while back on LinkedIn and Twitter we put together a list of things that later, once you are successful, even very successful, you’ll regret. It got a lot of engagement from the SaaS veterans out there, so I thought it would be worth digging in more on...
Top 5 Lessons Learned from Databricks’ Journey from $400M to $1.5B+ with former VP of Product Nadim Hossain
Databricks had an incredible scale-up from $400M to $1.5B+ during former VP of Product Nadim Hossain’s time there. The company has gone from 1600 employees to over 5500 and most recently crossed the $2B ARR mark. Nadim shares the principles behind the SaaS company’s massive growth.
Just Between Two CEOs: Dev Ittycheria of MongoDB and Jyoti Bansal of Harness.io and AppDynamics
Two successful SaaS leaders talk about product alignment, freemium models, having an open-source product and other topics in SaaS we all want answers to.
Should You Build a Feature Just to Close a $50k Deal? Probably, In the Early-ish Days.
Does the advice to always say no to sponsored features would also apply to a SaaS startup selling to mid-market (ACV 20k to 50k+) and has relatively few clients? No. This is not wise advice, it is bad advice in many cases. As long as the deal size is big enough. At...
ICYMI: Why The First Rule You Know About Building Software is Wrong: Rippling CEO Parker Conrad’s Theory of the Compound Startup (Pod 670 + Video)
The First Rule You Know About Building Software is Wrong. Discover why with Rippling CEO and Co-Founder, Parker Conrad, and Sam Blond, Partner at Founders Fund. In this session, Parker will explain step-by-step his theory of the compound startup and how it can help you scale your SaaS company.
Four Simple Tips to Increase Pricing. Without Angering Your Customers.
Dear SaaStr: How Do I Increase Pricing Again Without Angering Customers? One simple thought: earn it. #1. First, plan to increase pricing in general once a year, each year for new customers. But earn it. And generally for new customers, not existing customers. How...
What’s the #1 Most Important Thing in Pricing A New SaaS Product?
Dear SaaStr: What’s the #1 Most Important Thing in Pricing A New SaaS Product? I think the #1 thing to think about is context. COO Brad Lightcap says OpenAI's pricing model wasn't planned. It was just him and Sam Altman vibe mathing. “$20 sounds good? Okay....
Who Should Your VP of Product Report To?
Lately I’ve been working with 5+ SaaS companies all hiring their first VP of Product. Most around $6m-$10m ARR, although one just past $2m ARR. And critically, most have a really strong CEO-CTO partnership. Both are great leaders, and both are great at...
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