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Understanding the SaaS business model

ProfitWell

Ever since John Koenig first coined the term “SaaS” back in 2005, the software-as-a-service industry has been one of the fastest-moving and creative in the world. The SaaS business model powering all of this activity is startlingly unique, still young, and inextricably tied to the power of cloud computing. Recurring payments.

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Learning to Love the Art of Sales (As a Technical Founder) with Ross Mason, Founder of MuleSoft (Europa Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

At our inaugural SaaStr Europa last June, podcast host-with-the-most Harry Stebbings sat down with MuleSoft Founder and CTO Ross Mason to discuss the organization’s sales strategy, building a strong company culture, how to think about international expansion, and much more. We follow about 30 KPIs through the sale cycle in the business.

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Transcript of Redpoint Office Hours with Stripe’s Chief Corporate Advisor and former COO, Claire Hughes Johnson and Redpoint Managing Director, Tomasz Tunguz

Tom Tunguz

And then from 2004 to 2014, she was at Google and managed lots of different things, including the self-driving cars project, global sales and operations, and the business teams for checkout in Google Apps. I joined Google in 2005, a little after Claire. Our head of recruiting was one of my first directors.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Justin Bedecarre, Jen Nguyen, Jason Lemkin, and Aaron Levie

SaaStr

Centralized HQs with all the perks and amenities “under one roof” have traditionally been used as recruiting tools to attract and retain top talent. And honestly, we’re limiting ourselves by proximity on recruiting a diverse best-in-class team. This will be a really strong indicator of retention and recruiting.

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PODCAST 123: How to Go From a Transactional Model to a Subscription Model with Brandon Meyers

Sales Hacker

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we’ve got a fantastic episode for you. He even managed to help pivot the company from a programmatic transactional revenue model to a subscription model over the course of, not just the last three months during COVID, but over the course of the last few years. We’re on iTunes.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Chris O’Neill and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

The first will be sharing five perspectives and things that I found to be useful in adjusting sales in the midst of a crisis or a turnaround. ” When I took the helm at Evernote in 2005, many people had written the company off. If you’re selling to recruiting, they may be deeply hurting. It can really vary.

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