Blog Posts, Company Culture, Early, Leadership, SaaStr Events, Scale, VideosHear from Michelle Zatlyn, co-founder and COO of Cloudflare. Michelle started the company during an economic downturn in 2009. Now, Cloudflare runs one of the world’s largest networks that helps…
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Company Culture, Early, Leadership, Marketing, Marketing, Podcasts, Product, Sales, Sales Ep. 349: Startups can get messy. Especially in growth. David Sacks (Yammer, PayPal) shares how to navigate from 50-500 employees. This episode is sponsored by Lightmatter. SaaStr’s…
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Blog Posts, Company Culture, Early, Featured Posts, Hiring, Marketing, SalesA little while back we put together some of the top sales & marketing mistakes SaaS companies and founders make, especially in the early days. I thought it would be…
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Company Culture, Early, Marketing, Podcasts, ProductEp. 342: On this episode of the SaaStr podcast, our CEO, Jason Lemkin, chats with Zapier CEO, Wade Foster, on Distributed Teams and Building a Cloud Product. Zapier is a…
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Company Culture, Fundraising, Hiring, Leadership, PodcastsEp. 341: David Politis is the Founder & CEO @ BetterCloud, the company that helps IT discover, manage and secure the digital workplace. To date, David has raised over $186M in…
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Blog Posts, Company Culture, Diversity & Inclusion, Featured Videos, Human Resources, Leadership, SaaStr Events, Videos“You can just stand by the wall and be quiet, “I don’t agree, but I’m not getting involved.” And that’s the definition of privilege, ladies and gentlemen.” Join Molly Ford,…
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Company Culture, Customer Success, Customer Success, Early, Hiring, Leadership, Podcasts, Sales Ep. 333: Bridget Gleason is the Head of Sales and Customer Success @ Tidelift, the company providing managed open source, backed by maintainers. Tidelift…
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Blog Posts, Company CultureThese are challenging times, even for SaaS companies doing relatively well. Shelter is getting tiring for many; it wears on us. Communication gets strained. What's your top tip for keeping…
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Blog Posts, Company Culture, Growth, SalesLish Gates who manages global revenue enablement at Algolia put up a thread on LinkedIn on how they are onboarding new sales and revenue professionals. Algolia is around 350 employees,…
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Company Culture, Customer Success, Leadership, Marketing, Marketing, Podcasts Ep. 325: Carolyn Guss is VP of Corporate Marketing @ PagerDuty, the company keeping your digital operations running perfectly with their real-time operations platform. Prior to…
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Blog Posts, Company CultureGartner recently did a survey of 317 CFOs and finance professionals, and found the vast majority plan to permanently shift to more remote work going forward. This doesn’t mean letting…
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Blog Posts, Company CultureEveryone’s gone into War Mode of some sort. If you are one of the SaaS companies that is “benefitting” from the current crazy environment, you’re overloaded. If you are one…
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Blog Posts, Company Culture2013: “SaaS really only works in the U.S.” 2015: “We need to come to the U.S. to go big in SaaS” 2018: “It would still help a lot to come…
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Blog Posts, Company Culture, Growth, Hiring, LeadershipFor many of us, these are challenging times. This may be of the simplest SaaS posts of all times, with some of the most basic advice, but it’s worth talking…
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Blog Posts, Company Culture, LeadershipIf you are feeling a bit overwhelmed as CEO, remember it’s even harder on the team. I’m no expert here (at all) but a few ideas on what can help:…
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