Career Growth & Advice, Company Culture, Early, Featured Videos, Hiring, Human Resources, Leadership, Other, SaaStr Events, Scale, Videos“I think you have to make emotionally difficult choices all along the way to build a healthier company and to make you also, maybe avoid this fate” – Jason Cohen,…
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Career Growth & Advice, Compensation, Early, Featured Videos, Hiring, Human Resources, Leadership, Other, SaaStr Events, VideosMallun Yen, COO and Co-Founder at SaaStr, interviews both the COO at Gainsight, Allison Pickens, and Cloudflare, Michelle Zatlyn, on their early days to present day scaling and managing customer…
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Career Growth & Advice, Compensation, Early, Featured Videos, Hiring, Human Resources, Leadership, Other, SaaStr Events, VideosWhenever you are going to hire a senior team member, you’ll likely go through 3 stages of denial as a founder. We don’t need that role right now. I can…
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Career Growth & Advice, Early, Leadership, Other, SaaStr Events, VideosChief Product Officer at Adobe, Scott Belsky, discusses his beliefs on creating the first mile of your product. His immediate suggestion is to focus on your newest customers. Why? You…
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Career Growth & Advice, Early, Leadership, Other, SaaStr Events, VideosMallun Yen, COO at SaaStr interviews Magdalena Yesil, one of the pioneers in the SaaS industry. She’s the first investor and founding board member of Salesforce, author of Power Up,…
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Career Growth & Advice, Early, Leadership, Marketing, Marketing Strategy, Other, SaaStr Events, VideosWell-known storytellers, Jason Katz – Chief Storyteller @ Pixar, and Peter Arvai – Co-Founder & CEO @ Prezi, held a powerful session on all things storytelling at SaaStr Annual 2018….
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Growth, Leadership, Other, Q&AI don’t think so. Not until the paradigm changes. Here’s why. Quora has a unique combination of: The largest on-point audience, and By far — by far — the best…
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No, but it is moving a bit in that direction. Google paid $380,000,000 to buy Bebop in large part just to get Diane Green to kickstart their enterprise play. She’s…
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Growth, Leadership, Other, Q&AWe bought a fairly early P85 in 2012. No Autopilot, no parking sensors, no badge on the back, almost no nothing on this early build. The seats aren’t that comfortable….
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Leadership, Other, Q&A, ScaleNo. It’s true none of these monikers make much sense anymore. “Cloud” itself doesn’t really make sense. If you are storing your content on Box’s own servers, why is that…
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Sure. When Atlassian IPO’d, the founders owned 75%: And Atlassian is the 5th largest public cloud company by market cap: (In the case of Workday the founders also owned 75%…
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Early, Leadership, Other, Q&AI’ve invested in founders from France, England, Armenia, Estonia, Sweden, etc. and I should know the answer to this question. But I’m not sure I do. I’m not remotely an…
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Leadership, Other, Q&A, ScaleNo. “Software as a Service” doesn’t really mean just software-as-a-service. What it really means is business software that businesses pay for. SaaS companies can learn a lot from Spotify, from…
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Growth, Leadership, Other, Q&AFor me at least, writing is one of the best ways to synthesize and hone your knowledge. It forces you to reflect on what you have learned, distill it into…
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In the medium term, it’s tough to bet against Salesforce. At $10b+ in ARR, Salesforce has conquered its biggest short-term challenge: the maturity of its original, core CRM market. It…
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