The Key To Unlocking Profitability and Growth in SaaS with Expensify’s COO Anu Muralidharan
How do you build a successful, high-growth company that is also profitable? Expensify’s COO, Anu Muralidharan, debunks the fallacy that profitability comes at the expense of growth.
Dear SaaStr: How Do Founder CEOs Typically Transition Out of the Role?
Dear SaaStr: How Do Founder CEOs Typically Transition Out of the Role? It’s a complicated question. Most founders that voluntarily step down tend to want to remain involved at some level, often as “Executive Chairman”. And the VCs and investors often like this. The...
The Founder Playbook with Loom’s CEO & Co-Founder, Joe Thomas (Pod 669 + Video)
With Loom announcing its almost $1B acquisition by Atlassian, we thought it would be a great time to dig back on CEO Joe Thomas’s presentation at SaaStr Europa in June on how they got there. Joe Thomas, CEO & Co-founder of Loom, shared 5 hard-earned lessons...
Are IPOs Really Back? And Where is Growth Investing? 20VC Roundtable #4 with Jason Lemkin, Woody Marshall, Deven Parekh, Harry Stebbings
Harry Stebbings of 20VC was kind enough to have us back on the latest VC Roundtable with 2 of the very, very best in growth / late-stage investing — the leaders of Insight Partners and Technology Crossover Ventures. They’ve led later stage investments in...
Dear SaaStr: What Is “Uncalled Capital” in a VC Fund?
Dear SaaStr: What Is “Uncalled Capital” in a VC Fund? This is worth understanding as a founder. In any venture fund of a material size (even just $50m+), the vast majority of the fund is not used for initial checks into startups. Yes, that’s right. ...
5 Interesting Learnings from Shopify at $6.8 Billion in Revenues
So times are still challenging for some, but the effects aren’t even. One SaaS leader that’s accelerating again is Shopify. At an almost $7 Billion run-rate — they’re still growing a stunning 31% on a constant-currency basis. And that’s...
Dear SaaStr: Cold Emails Are Not Working for My B2B SaaS Startup. What Am I Doing Wrong?
Dear SaaStr: Cold Emails Are Not Working for My B2B SaaS Startup. What Am I Doing Wrong? We’ve all been there. The fairly crappy, “my product is so great”, outbound random email to 30–100 folks when you are trying to get your start-up off the ground. That never really...
Pitchbook: VC Returns Are at a 10+ Year Low
So according to Pitchbook, which collects a massive amount of VC data, VC funds themselves hit a 10+ year low in paper returns this past quarter. In fact, returns plummeted to -20% (!) Yes, that’s as bad as it sounds. And this is a big deal, because VC’s...
Scaling Beyond Founder-Led Sales with Atomico Partner Laura Connell
Discover what it takes to scale beyond founder-led sales on your path to Series B with Atomico Partner Laura Connell.
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