Each week, we round up our most popular content so you can catch up on anything you may have missed. Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos:
Top Blog Posts This Week:
- Salesforce: “Things Are Too Unpredictable to Provide a Forecast”. How tough are things out there? It really varies. MongoDB and HashiCorp have raced to record quarters. But the #1 leader in SaaS business software has hit big headwinds. With growing slowing dramatically from just 6 months ago.
- Where Venture Capital Really is Right Now, With Accel, Iconiq Growth, and Salesforce Ventures at G2 Reach. A great and sobering look at where Series A and later rounds are. It’s brutal at the moment. Take a watch.
- 8 Ideas On How to Motivate The Sales Team After a Rough Patch. If things are tougher for you right now, here are some ideas to rally the sales team through it.
- Your Family May Never Understand. Being a founder is tough on many levels. One of the toughest — is that your family probably won’t really understand. Not really. Not after the early days.
- 5 Interesting Learnings from Dynatrace at $1 Billion+ in ARR. You know what’s in fashion today? Decent but profitable growth. Dynatrace is a great example.
Top Podcasts This Week:
1. SaaStr 613: How Top CMOs Drive Growth in the Age of the Self-Serve Buyer with Klaviyo SVP of Marketing Kady Srinivasan, Talkdesk CMO Kathie Johnson, SmartBear CMO Cynthia Gumbert and TrustRadius Founder and CEO Vinay Bhagat
2. SaaStr 614: CRO Confidential Presents: Gong SVP of Sales Jameson Yung on Creating a Category. Hosted by Founders Fund Partner Sam Blond and SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin.
3. SaaStr 615: Where Venture Capital Really is Right Now, With Accel, Iconiq Growth, and Salesforce Ventures at G2 Reach
4. SaaStr 612: How to Manage 100+ SDRs Across 4 Continents with Snowflake VP, Global Sales Development Lars Nilsson
5. SaaStr 611: How to Scale a Platform and Ecosystem to $10B with Atlassian CRO Cameron Deatsch
Top Videos This Week:
1. Accel, Iconiq & Salesforce Ventures: “Where Venture Is Right Now: Gritty & Much Harder” at G2 Reach
2. How to Get the Most Out of Your Entire Revenue Motion with Salesloft’s CMO
3. SaaStr CRO Confidential: Founders Fund Partner Sam Blond + Divvy CRO Sterling Snow
4. Balancing Hyper Growth with Risk: Secrets to Scaling with Brex’s COO and Alloy’s CRO
5. Playbook to Achieving CEO – CRO Harmony with Algolia’s CEO Bernadette Nixon and CRO Michelle Adams
