When Selling for $2 Billion is Too Early
Q: Why do many startup owners sell their firm and move on instead of planning on making it a big player like Google, Microsoft, etc.? I remember not long ago I was at a SaaS event. A SaaS CEO running a $20b+ SaaS company bumped into a great SaaS CEO that had just sold...
Expect A Lot More $2B+ Acquisitions in SaaS and Cloud
Q: Which merger and acquisition trends, if any, do you expect to unfold in the next 12 months? I expect more mega-mergers: $2b-$10b+ deals. Why? These are the Best of Time in Cloud and SaaS, as odd as that still seems. Multiples and share prices are at all time...
Zoom: Too Big To Buy
Q: Who will acquire Zoom: Amazon, Oracle, Adobe, or IBM? Zoom currently has a $74b market cap. To acquire a successful public company, you have to pay a “premium”, i.e. 25%-50% (sometimes more) beyond its current market capitalization. So let’s say it would cost $125...
SaaStr’s New New in Venture is Coming! Check Out These Awesome Sessions.
SaaStr’s New New in Venture Virtual Summit is coming up on May 27th. This will be a 1 day, 2 track event with over 10,000 attendees. (and it’s FREE to attendees) The top VCs in cloud and SaaS will share what’s really going on in venture capital right...
Would You Rather Own 100% of a Company Worth $100 million or 10% of a Company Worth $1 Billion?
Q: Would you rather own 100% of a company worth 100 million or 10% of a company worth 1 billion? This is the greatest question for ambitious founders. I’ve thought about it a lot. I’ve lived it (a version of it). And I think about it every single day. I remember when...
Why Would Microsoft Buy Wunderlist and Later Just Shut it Down?
Q: Why Would Microsoft Buy Wunderlist and Later Just Shut it Down? Because it was just a bet. And maybe even almost an experiment. Buying Wunderlist for $150m sure sounds like a lot to me and you. But the reality is, it’s 0.1% of Microsoft’s market cap. For a Really...
Is Seed the new Series A? (Video + Transcript)
Since 2010 we’ve seen more startups, funds, and capital than ever before, but with this drastic increase, investors are seeing unexpected new trends reshaping the future of the industry. Join this panel of investors from Connect Ventures, Blossom Capital, Dawn...
Should You Sell Your Company? A Great SaaStr Podcast with Salesforce Essentials
Salesforce Essentials and Mission.org came by SaaStr HQ and did a pretty unique podcast interview with me. We talked a lot about exits. About selling your company, lessons learned, and what the journey of selling a company really all means. There’s a lot in...
Key Lessons from a $5B SaaS Category Leader (Video + Transcript)
Want to see more content like this? Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. Doug Pepper | Marketing Director @Shasta Ventures FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW All right. Good morning everybody. How are you? I really appreciate you coming here since Jason Lemkin is speaking downstairs....
SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with InCountry and Y Combinator — July 19, 2019
Ep. 250: Peter Yared is the Founder & CEO @ InCountry, the startup that allows you to operate globally with data residency as a service meaning they store your mission-critical data in it’s country of origin, without compliance. To...
From Product Market Fit to Scale – Perspectives from Founder + Investor (Video + Transcript)
Join Rene Yang Stewart, Co-Head and Principal, Vista Equity Partners, and Monica Enand, Founder and CEO, Zapproved, as they discuss growing a company from product market fit to scale. Vista Equity Partners invested in Zapproved in 2017. Hear perspectives from both the...
What are the pros and cons of selling a company?
What are the pros and cons of selling a company? It’s complicated. Having a “good exit” is a special thing. You will make some money, perhaps even life-changing money. It will prove you can do it. It will Level You Up in the hierarchy of founders. You will have beaten...
SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Fmr. CEO of Host Analytics and CEO of Namely — Jun 14, 2019
Ep. 241: Dave Kellogg is a leading technology executive, independent board member, advisor and angel investor. In his most recent role, Dave was the CEO @ Host Analytics where he quintupled ARR, halved customer acquisition costs and...
Top 10 Lessons Learned in Getting to $100M ARR with Adaptive Insights (Video + Transcript)
Tom Bogan, CEO of Adaptive Insights, a Workday company, will review the key principles to building a successful SaaS company. From team to vision to metrics to funding and more, these principles provide the framework for high-growth, high performing SaaS companies....
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