Marketing to Developers: Why Happy is Our Hack with DigitalOcean’s CMO Carly Brantz (Pod 545 + Video)
Carly Brantz, CMO of DigitalOcean, outlines how to grow your business by creating a culture of happiness.
People, Process, and Product: A Product Leader’s First 90 Days with Notion CPO Madhu Muthukumar (Pod 544 + Video)
Notion CPO, Madhu Muthukumar, looks back at his experience leading product teams at top SaaS companies to pull insights on the first 90 days of a product leader.
From $0 to $400+M: 10 Mistakes the CEO of ZoomInfo Made on His Journey to IPO with Henry Schuck (Video)
The journey to IPO comes with ups and downs, and every founder should prepare for triumphs and mistakes. ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck shares valuable learnings from the pitfalls he encountered on the way to $400 million.
5 Rules to Win When Competition is Everywhere With Atlassian COO Anu Bharadwaj and Boast.AI Co-Founder Lloyed Lobo
The SaaS world is competitive, and standing out in a highly saturated market takes remarkable hard work and skill. However, the companies that adapt and create transformational change tend to survive. COO Anu Bharadwaj’s years of experience at Atlassian have shaped her outlook on how to thrive in the market.
In this session, Boast.AI Co-Founder Lloyed Lobo interviews Bharadwaj as she shares Atlassian’s five building blocks to win.
How Hybrid is Working in Practice…What the Data Shows with Raise Commercial Real Estate CEO Justin Bedecarre and Felipe Gomez, President @ Raise (Pod 537 + Video)
Raise CEO and Co-founder, Justin Bedecarre, and President, Felipe Gomez-Kraus, discuss how SaaS companies can build successful hybrid workplaces that are empathetic while incentivizing their team to return to the office.
How to Build a High-Performing and Data-Driven Inside Sales team at Scale with WalkMe’s VP of Sales, Aliisa Rosenthal (Video)
Aliisa Rosenthal, VP of Sales at WalkMe, shares her insights on developing a powerhouse inside sales team at scale to succeed in today’s customer-driven marketplace.
Hacks For Founders Of High-Growth Startups With DigitalOcean’s CEO Yancey Spruill
DigitalOcean CEO Yancey Spruill shares the most common mistakes startup founders make and how to overcome hurdles at different stages of growth.
The Secrets to Scaling a Public Company with a 75% Freelancer Workforce with Upwork’s CEO Hayden Brown (Pod 532 + Video)
CEO at UpWork, Hayden Brown, breaks down the tectonic shift in work happening at a lightning pace. She spotlights the role of freelancers in new-age businesses with granular insights into how UpWork scaled through the years relying on its freelance workforce.
Loom CEO Joe Thomas: 4 Ways to Get to $10 Billion by Working Async (Without Burning Out) Pod 531 + Video)
Loom CEO Joe Thomas shares how async communication improves the work experience, enhances company culture, and builds a better business.
Building A $5.6b Company With A Product-Led Flywheel With Postman’s CEO Abhinav Asthana (Pod 528 + Video)
Postman’s CEO Abhinav Asthana shares how community, product, data can power marketing, customer success, and sales are the key elements for the next generation of SaaS software leaders.
Scaling Your Startup 10x From $20M to $200M with Sapphire, Lightspeed, TripActions’ CRO, and 6Sense’s CMO (Pod 522 + Video)
Cathy Gao, Partner at Sapphire Ventures, and Anoushka Vaswani, Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, moderated a panel with Carlos Delatorre, CRO at TripActions, and Latané Conant, CMO at 6sense to discuss how you can scale your startup from $20 million ARR to $200 million ARR through go-to-market execution, talent, and culture.
7 Changes You Can Make >Today< To Grow Faster
Since SaaS compounds, even doing just 5% better now can compound dramatically over time. Everything doesn’t have to be 10x better to move the needle, if it compounds.
But a lot of advice takes time to pan out. What are 5+ changes you can make today, or at least this week, to do better?
What Incentives … Actually Incent Employees to Stay?
Dear SaaStr: What incentives work well to attract new employees to a company, and what ultimately makes them want to stay? The tough part is that things that incent folks to join … don’t really incent them to stay. Not really, at least not in my experience. Things...10 Learnings from Off The Record with Pat Grady of Sequoia Capital
Actionable insights include a) why you should disregard conventional advice about VC associates, b) building cultures that scale, c) how to run an effective fundraising process, and d) habits of high-performing CEOs.