by Amelia Ibarra | Aug 28, 2023 | Blog Posts, Company Culture, Featured Podcasts, Featured Videos, Growth, Leadership, Podcasts, Videos |
Discover how three breakout SaaS companies scaled from an idea to hundreds of employees and $1B+ valuations, all while living their values along the way.
Notion COO Akshay Kothari, Motive CEO and Founder Shoaib Makani, and CEO and Co-Founder of Incredible Health Iman Abuzeid share the secrets of ensuring their company-centered values and purpose remained an anchor amidst hypergrowth.
by Jason Lemkin | Jul 10, 2023 | Blog Posts, Company Culture, Leadership |
I held off for many years on writing a post on Board Meetings. Why? Because every investor in the world writes lengthy posts on How to Have a Great Board Meeting. How to Have a Great Pre-Board Meeting. How to Have a Great Board Meeting Week. Etc. etc. etc. etc. VCs,...
by Amelia Ibarra | Jun 21, 2023 | Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Company Culture, Fundraising, Hiring, Leadership, Podcasts, SaaS Product Pricing, Top 10 Mistakes, Videos |
$100M ARR doesn’t happen overnight. Founders are responsible for ensuring a startup always has enough money, setting the vision for the company, and driving things forward. It seems simple enough, but it’s not always easy, as founding CEO and co-founder of...
by Jason Lemkin | Jun 11, 2023 | Blog Posts, Company Culture, Fundraising, Growth, Human Resources, Q&A |
Dear SaaStr: Do VCs Want To Talk To Senior Execs That Quit a Portfolio Company? Generally, if the issues are around: harassment or any inappropriate conduct, or fraud or misleading financials, etc, or something else that is wrong legally, ethically, morally,...
by Amelia Ibarra | May 31, 2023 | Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Company Culture, Leadership, Podcasts, Videos, Workshop Wednesdays |
Building a company for $0-$1M in revenue differs wildly from $1-10M ARR. And scaling from $10M to $100M is wildly different still. Sameer Dholakia, Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners with decades of operational experience, shares what you need to change as you...
by Amelia Ibarra | May 10, 2023 | Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Company Culture, Customer Success, Early, Leadership, Marketing, Podcasts, SaaS Product Pricing, Sales, Sales, Videos |
In this week’s episode of CRO Confidential, host Sam Blond, Partner at Founders Fund, continues a mini-series on founder-led sales with Colin Zima, founder and CEO of Omni. Omni is trying to build the next-generation business intelligence (BI) platform. In a year’s...
by Jason Lemkin | May 6, 2023 | Blog Posts, Company Culture, Early, Featured Posts, Hiring, Marketing, Sales |
Never hire anyone in sales that doesn't care about money You'll see — Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin (@jasonlk) January 11, 2026 A while back we put together some of the top sales & marketing mistakes SaaS companies and founders make, especially in the...
by Amelia Ibarra | May 5, 2023 | Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Company Culture, Customer Success, Hiring, Leadership, Podcasts, Videos, Workshop Wednesdays |
Do you want to avoid the common pitfalls of scaling a startup? Nick Mehta, CEO of Gainsight, shares part two of his 10 top mistakes in 10 years at the company. The first five mistakes many startups make can be found here and include: Not holding leaders to the...
by Amelia Ibarra | May 3, 2023 | Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Company Culture, Customer Success, Hiring, Leadership, Podcasts, SaaS Product Pricing, Sales, Videos, Workshop Wednesdays |
Scaling a company comes with all kinds of hiccups and failures. Sometimes the best way to avoid hard-to-fix mistakes is by hearing how other people flubbed it while they were scaling. In this week’s Workshop Wednesday, held every Weds at 10 a.m. PST, Nick Mehta, the...
by Jason Lemkin | May 1, 2023 | Blog Posts, Company Culture, Early, Fundraising, Q&A |
Dear SaaStr: Is It Acceptable for VCs to “Ghost” Founders who have invested so much time and effort with them? How should founders respond to this? It's totally OK to ask a VC at the end of a pitch meeting, "Based on what you know now, what are...
by Team SaaStr | Apr 30, 2023 | Blog Posts, Company Culture, Early, Hiring, Human Resources, Videos |
As we gear up for SaaStr Europa 2023 in London on 6-7 June and SaaStr Annual 2023 in the SF Bay Area on 6-7 September, we wanted to take a look back at some of our most iconic speakers and sessions from over the year, that we can still learn from today. Asana today...
by Amelia Ibarra | Apr 28, 2023 | Blog Posts, Company Culture, Customer Success, Hiring, Marketing, Podcasts, SaaS Product Pricing, Sales, Sales, Videos |
Former CEO and founder of Yext and current CEO and founder of Roam, Howard Lerman, shares successful strategies and lessons learned building two successful startups with Sam Blond, Partner at Founders Fund, in this week’s episode of CRO Confidential. Typically, sales...
by Jason Lemkin | Apr 25, 2023 | Blog Posts, Company Culture, Early, Growth, Human Resources, Leadership |
A little while back I was walking on the streets of San Francisco and bumped into a terrific public company CEO. A beloved CEO of a beloved SaaS company several years post-IPO. We caught up briefly, and I asked if there was any way I could help. He said,...
by Amelia Ibarra | Apr 7, 2023 | Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Company Culture, Hiring, Leadership, Marketing, Podcasts, Product, Sales, Videos |
Not all startups follow the same trajectory for getting off the ground. Some stumble into the world of entrepreneurship like DoNotPay founder Joshua Browder did. As a self-proclaimed accidental entrepreneur, Browder shares a few unconventional ways to scale your...
by Nick Mehta | Apr 2, 2023 | Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Company Culture, Customer Success, Hiring, Leadership, Top 10 Mistakes |
So I wanted to kick off a new series that productized something we’ve been doing for 10+ years at SaaStr … getting top leaders share their mistakes. So the rest of us can get to $100m+ ARR faster, with less stress and more success. We’ve done a ton of this content...
