5 Reasons to Actually Have Board Meetings (Updated)
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Many entrepreneurs seek to create something new, but not everyone has the drive to create new and valuable solutions for today’s problems. Every successful company, established or on the rise, shares this feature: they provide value to their customers. The real value...How To Build A High-Performing Team And Retain Top Talent with Snowflake Global Director of Market Intelligence Guan Wang (Video)
“People are the most valuable asset of an organization. Every leader needs to have a strategic playbook to build high-performing teams and retain top talent,” says Guan Wang, Global Director of Market Intelligence for Snowflake. In the kickoff for Workshop Wednesdays...What It Takes to Forge Your Own Category with Braze Co-Founder and CEO Bill Magnuson (Pod 601 + Video)
How do you create a concept that not only doesn’t yet exist but hasn’t yet been imagined? Bill Magnuson, Co-founder and CEO of Braze, remembers his company’s founding in 2011 in an office with bare concrete floors—an austerity that he opines as “probably an ingredient...CEO Systems: 5 Lessons Learned from Scaling at Every Growth Phase with HashiCorp CEO Dave McJannet (Pod 598 + Video)
Every company moves through different growth phases, and eventually, the focus, strategy, and motions for growth must change alongside the business. Dave McJannet, CEO of HashiCorp, shares from his wealth of experience to reveal the secrets to building and expanding...The Secrets to Getting Sales and Marketing to Work Together Better with Highspot CMO Jon Perera (Video)
Over the last three years, the United States economy has shifted drastically. The economic landscape of today differs greatly from what it was even a few short months ago. From a venture capital perspective, there’s now a premium on driving efficient growth rather...10 Lessons Learned Along the Path to $100M ARR with UserZoom CEO Alfonso de la Nuez and CMO Sophie Chesters (Pod 590 + Video)
The journey to $100M ARR may seem like a typical success story in Silicon Valley, but that doesn’t make it simple or easy. But what guideposts can you follow to survive the years it takes to succeed? UserZoom CEO Alfonso de la Nuez and CMO Sophie Chesters have a few...Scaling From $10M to $100M ARR: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly with Showpad Co-Founder Pieterjan Bouten (Pod 586 + Video)
The $100 million in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) mark is a magnificent milestone for companies that indicates sustainable business growth. While every startup is eager to hit this mark quickly, it’s a process that takes time. Scalability is about capability, so...Being an Ethical Leader With Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson and Glitch CEO Anil Dash
So many things stay on SaaS leaders’ minds, like growing revenue, hiring strong teams, and making customers happy. Yet perhaps a less obvious piece of leadership is building an ethical framework for your company. At 2019 SaaStr Annual, Anil Dash (CEO of Glitch before...Going from Series A to Unicorn in Less Than 12 Months with Payhawk Co-Founder/CEO Hristo Borisov and VP of Marketing Désirée Schildt (Video)
Knowing how to get funding as a start-up is an invaluable skill. You have the vision, but you need to communicate it effectively for investors to believe in it and provide you with the capital needed to bring it to life. Payhawk’s CEO, Hristo Borisov, and VP of...Finding Opportunities in Every Challenge: From Humble Beginnings to 30 Million Users with Miro Founder and CEO Andrey Khusid, and ICONIQ Growth General Partner Matthew Jacobson (Pod 580 + Video)
In this SaaStr Europa 2022 session, Matt Jacobson, General Partner at ICONIQ Growth, interviews Miro’s Founder & CEO, Andrey Khusid, to get insight into how he was able to grow the company so successfully.