Hiring a Great VP of Sales: The New, Latest Edition with Jason Lemkin (Video + Pod)
Ready to elevate your sales game in 2024? Join Jason Lemkin as he updates SaaStr’s classic insights on hiring the perfect VP of Sales and navigating common pitfalls.
How to Implement a Customer-First Strategy and Structure with Dashlane’s CPO
Donald Hasson CPO at Dashlane shares insights on how to solve hard problems for customers and how to optimize for the best results for your business.
A 4 Point Test To Know If You Are Ready to Hire BigCo Folks
As you approach $50m, $60m, $100m ARR You can hire folks that always worked at Big Companies You'll need them Then — Jason ✨????SaaStr.AI Sept 10-12✨ Lemkin (@jasonlk) July 24, 2024 It’s easy to say “only hire people with start-up...
The Top 10 Questions to Ask a VP of Marketing in an Interview (Updated)
There is a lot to do in marketing But a new VP of Marketing will really only do 3 things Ask them what those top 3 are before you hire them You may need something different — Jason ✨????SaaStr.AI Sept 10-12✨ Lemkin (@jasonlk) August 4, 2021 I’ve...
Avoid Trapdoor Decisions: 5 Lessons Learned from Stripe’s First COO Claire Hughes Johnson (Video + Pod)
As we gear up for 2024 SaaStr Annual, Sep 10-12 in SF Bay, once again on our 40+ acre indoor-outdoor campus, I wanted to take a look back at a few sessions that I’ve come to appreciate more with time. This was one, when Stripe’s first COO, Claire Hughes Johnson, came...
Dear SaaStr: What’s #1 On The Path to Becoming a Great VP of Sales?
Dear SaaStr: What’s #1 on the path to becoming a great VP of Sales? Each story is different, but there is one clear penultimate step: recruiting and managing a small sales team yourself. From scratch. What 95 times out of 100 is a recipe for failure is jumping...
Top 5 Lessons Learned from Scaling GTM Teams at Notion, Asana, and Dropbox
Robbie O’Connor, GM EMEA at Notion and first European hire at Asana and Dropbox walks through the building blocks required to scale GTM teams and operations
7 Pieces of Advice Entrepreneurs Never Hear That They Need to Hear with Jason Lemkin
What is the top advice entrepreneurs never hear that they need to hear? SaaStr founder and CEO Jason Lemkin shares 7 pieces of wisdom for founders.
Dear SaaStr: What Do VCs Really Look For?
In B2B, it’s pretty simple. Can the company get to $200m+ in revenues in 8–10 years? Sort of … period. That’s kind of it. That’s the bar to building something that can truly IPO or being acquired for billions. The Average SaaS IPO Takes 12 Years If it can .....
Dear SaaStr: How You Deal With Long Sales Cycles, E.g. 7-8+ Months?
Dear SaaStr: How You Deal With Long Sales Cycles, E.g. 7-8+ Months? A few things: First, you have to get Zen. You cannot force 9 month sales cycles into 9 days. You can bring them in a bit — but not that much. You cannot force Fortune 500 companies to buy six...
You Can’t Hire a VP That You Don’t Love
Recently, a good friend of mine running a Hot SaaS Start-up asked me if he should hire a particular VP of Product candidate I knew well. The team he’d be managing was a big thumbs up on him. The board was in favor. And I knew this VP. This VP is a 10/10. But...
CRO Confidential: How Wiz Went From $0 to The First $100M with Wiz ex-CRO Colin Jones (Pod 665 + Video)
Some are reporting Google may buy SaaS security leader Wiz for over $20 Billion — just a little over 4 years after founding! That would be a record. Whatever happens, Wiz’s growth is already a record to $100m, to $350m ARR … and beyond. It may...
Scaling to $150M ARR and Beyond with Grafana Labs CEO Raj Dutt and Lightspeed
Grafana Labs’ co-founder and CEO Raj Dutt and Lightspeed’s Partner Alex Kayyal discuss scaling a company to $150M ARR and beyond.
Fundraising and Hiring in 2025 and Much More with Jason Lemkin
To close out SaaStr Europa 2024, Jason Lemkin took the stage to answer the audience’s most burning questions. Let’s find out what people are asking.
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