Uncharted: Ramp’s Co-Founder and CTO on Why Adversity is Important at a Young Age, What Gets Harder The 2nd Time Around
SaaStr’s Poya Osgouei has a great Uncharted podcast that does a deeper dive with many SaaS execs. Up this week is Karim Atiyeh, co-founder and CTO of Ramp. Ramp is a leading finance automation platform. Founded just in 2019, they were valued at $8.1 billion two years...
5 Interesting Learnings from Palantir at $2B in ARR
So the last time we caught up with Palantir, they had just IPO’d and were at $1B ARR. Fast forward to today, and so much has changed. They’ve now cruised to $2B in ARR, but the world for Cloud and SaaS stocks has changed a lot. At $2B ARR, Palantir is...
Hoping to Hit 2,700 Attendees at 2022 SaaStr Europa!! See You June 7-8 in Barcelona!!
So we’ll see where we end up in attendance at 2022 SaaStr Europa. Today, we’re tracking to about 2,700 total attendees for June 7-8 in sunny Barcelona!! Perhaps we’ll end up at 2,500, or even a smidge more than that, we’ll see. We’ll...
My Company’s Revenue Dropped to $0 — and We Thrived with TripActions CEO Ariel Cohen (Video)
Crises happen — and there is always another one around the corner. So how do you create a business that is flexible enough to weather the storms without losing sight of your company’s North Star?
Where Venture is Going, Right Now: A Deep Dive with Doug Pepper, Iconiq Growth
The other day, I asked Doug Pepper to join us for our podcast and YouTube to talk about where the venture markets really are today. Doug has done it all, from being the first seed investor in Marketo all the way to being a growth investor in Calendly, Loom, Braze,...
Dear SaaStr: How Fast Should your Monthly Growth Be from $0 to $1M ARR?
Dear SaaStr: How Fast Should your Monthly Growth Be from $0 to $1M ARR? I can tell you after 30+ SaaS investments, including 5 unicorns … it doesn’t really matter how long it takes you to get to the first $1m ARR, per se. I’ve invested in start-ups that got there in...
Times Aren’t That Bad. But New Unicorns Are Going to Go on Pause for a Bit.
I’ve been in SaaS from ‘05-‘22 From ‘05-‘20, it was clear as a VC, you could only truly make money from the very, very, very best investments Then in 2H’20-‘21 it seemed like everyone could be a unicorn, and somehow, the rules had changed Now we know the rules didn’t...
Anchoring High in Pricing Really Works. But Only If You Do It Really Well.
Q: If I produce a better product than my competitors, but charge a little more, how would I go about selling it (to new customers and my competitors customers)? “Anchoring High” is an extremely effective marketing strategy — when done right. But you have to do it...
Why A 4-5x Return On an Investment Isn’t “Good Enough” For Earlier-Stage VCs
Really rough venture math: Each core VC investment is maybe 2% of the fund So to return just 1x of your investor's fund, you need to return 50x what your investors give you — Jason ✨Be Kind✨ Lemkin (@jasonlk) May 14, 2023 Dear SaaStr: Will VCs who invested...
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