Just Between Two CEOs: Dev Ittycheria of MongoDB and Jyoti Bansal of Harness.io and AppDynamics
Two successful SaaS leaders talk about product alignment, freemium models, having an open-source product and other topics in SaaS we all want answers to.
How to Build Happier Employees – Lessons From HubSpot’s CTO Dharmesh Shah and Chief People Officer Katie Burke
At SaaStr Annual we had a great session with HubSpot Founder & CTO, Dharmesh Shah, and their Chief People Officer, Katie Burke, on building happier employees. We’ve had a ton of great HubSpot content over the years but you may have missed this one, and it...
A Look Back: Hypergrowth, No Office and $100M in ARR with Seth Shaw, ex-CRO Airtable and CCO at Invision
Seth Shaw was most recently CRO at Airtable, and before that, CCO at Invision and VPS at Wrike. He was one of the early sales leaders managing a distributed sales team, and it’s interesting to look back at his 2019 talk at SaaStr on just how hard it can be...
The Top 5 Questions Every CEO Wrestles With – Lessons From Dave Kellogg (Video + Transcript)
We’re almost there!! 2023 SaaStrAnnual.com!! And while 85% of our speakers are new, we’ve also brought back some of our all-time favorites — with brand new content. That includes Dave Kellog, the former CEO of Host Analytics and prolific blogger. ...
How we did it: Gender Equality, Equal Pay, and Racial Equality with Salesforce (Video + Transcript)
“You can just stand by the wall and be quiet, “I don’t agree, but I’m not getting involved.” And that’s the definition of privilege, ladies and gentlemen.” Join Molly Ford, Salesforce Global Equality Programs Senior Director, and Leyla Seka, Salesforce VP...
Q&A with Maria Pergolino, Anthony Kennada, Aaron Ross and Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)
Jason Lemkin moderates a panel of some greatest-of-all-time SaaStr speakers taking questions from the audience and over Twitter. The panel discussed navigating a future recession, building great office culture, app exhaustion and more.
The Playbook to Building a Thriving Sales Culture with PatientPop SVP of Sales Justin Welsh (Video + Transcript)
Justin Welsh, former SVP of Sales at PatientPop explains how he started in SaaS in 2009 as the second sales hire at Zocdoc. Justin used Sales Culture to grow a successful PatientPop team to 140 employees and 55 million in revenue. Want to see more content like this?...
The Plaid Story: Integrating with 10,000 Institutions. On The Way to a $5 Billion Acquisition.
Plaid recently announced VIsa had acquired it for $5.3 billion dollars (!). We were very fortunate to have CEO Zach Perret join us at the last SaaStr Annual and share their top 6 learnings and I thought it would be great to update it here. — Jason ______...
Taking a $4B Company from Consumer to B2B with Pluralsight (Video + Transcript)
We all know and could name several successful B2C and B2B companies. What sets apart some of the most successful, high-growth companies we see today—Slack, Dropbox, Atlassian—has been their ability to tap into and master a new GTM strategy: B2C2B. In this...
The Top Tough Management Lessons – and Mistakes – from Founding a $3.8 Billion Market Leader (Video + Transcript)
Auren Hoffman is the CEO of SafeGraph and Co-Founder and former CEO of Live Ramp. Hear his top tough management lessons and mistakes he learned along the way to founding what is now a $3.8 Billion company. Live Ramp, a middleware company that connects marketing...
Building Consumer Grade Enterprise Products with Invision, Box, Google Maps and Crunchbase (Video + Transcript)
With the complexity of multiple stakeholders and the increasing purchasing influence of end users, the bar is higher than ever for enterprise UX as companies pioneer business models beyond traditional SaaS. Learn how to apply consumer grade growth, engagement, design,...
How to Build your Marketing Stack with Gorgias and OpenClassrooms (Video + Transcript)
There is no shortage of options when it comes to building your marketing technology stack. But with the seemingly endless options, how do companies navigate what to handle in-house and what to outsource? This session weighs the options to create the right combination...
Lessons Learned from Being Acquired for $400m With WePay (Video + Transcript)
WePay CEO Bill Clerico and COO Tina Hsiao discuss how the company went from launch to acquisition. WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. They process billions annually for platforms...
10 Things That Aren’t Obvious About Partnering With Big Companies – Workday Ventures (Video + Transcript)
Small and large businesses are often seen as competitors, with small businesses owning a fierce mentality of proving themselves as a player in the game instead of an underdog. But what happens when these different sized businesses unite forces in strategic...
A Founder’s Guide to Getting More Leads – ASAP (Video + Transcript)
Jason Green, Emergence Capital Founder, and General Partner moderates a discussion with Janine Pelosi, Zoom Head of Marketing and Online Business and Tolithia Kornweibel, Gusto Head of Marketing. Want to see more content like this? Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. Jason...
Industry News
- Rubrik prices IPO at $32 per share, above expected range
- IBM to acquire HashiCorp in $6.4 billion deal, reports another revenue miss
- IBM Nears Deal for Cloud-Software Provider
- Microsoft-Backed Rubrik’s IPO Is 20 Times Oversubscribed
- Google search boss warns employees of 'new operating reality,' urges them to move faster
- Oracle is moving its world headquarters to Nashville to be closer to health-care industry
- U.S. bans noncompete agreements for nearly all jobs
- Silicon Valley tech founder sentenced to prison for fraud
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