SaaStr

MAY 20, 2025

Convergent evolution from 2 very different start-ups that now have many similarities at scale. Keys to HubSpot’s Success: The “Hub” Strategy : HubSpot mastered the land-and-expand model, starting with Marketing Hub and strategically expanding to Sales Hub, Service Hub, CMS Hub, Operations Hub, Commerce Hub, and Content Hub.

SMB 273

SMB Scale Education Innovation 273

SaaStr

DECEMBER 1, 2024

As Co-CEO, he has helped transform monday.com from a team management tool into a leading work operating system platform used by hundreds of thousands of organizations worldwide. Product-Led Growth Before It Was Cool While others were building massive sales teams, Zinman pushed for a product that would sell itself. The result?

Scale 250

Scale SaaS Company Culture Leadership 250

SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2021

About 2010, we started a completely different product line. I was a software developer, a product person. ” I have apples for sale. Jason : Sales efficiency goes down. Jason : Related to that, how do you think about how many of your sales teams should perform? Peter : We have a suite of products.

Sales Hiring 339

Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Headcount 339

SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

My co founders and I were software developers, so we knew how to write the code, to build the website, to build the learning platform, to build the video distribution model. And from about 2007 till 2010 we bootstrapped and built the first version of the Pluralsight you see today. So, let me walk you through that.

B2B 161

B2B B2C Scale New CTO 161

OPEXEngine

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The most prominent example of Horizontal SaaS companies is Salesforce, which makes Customer Relationship Management software for use by direct and indirect sales teams regardless of the product or service the team is selling. It’s easy to understand why Vertical SaaS companies developed more slowly than Horizontal SaaS companies.

Business Model 52

Business Model Business SaaS Scale 52

Outseta

AUGUST 23, 2017

We don’t have any agreed upon budgets, or any sales reps with quotas. Sales quotas and forecasts can hurt your business… and we’ve all seen it Let me start by saying that I live in the same world that you do, one where it’s nearly impossible to avoid being beaten over the head with messaging citing the importance of goal setting.

Forecasting 52

Forecasting Scale Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 52

SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2023

And we ended the day with an incredible combo of the hottest app at that time (and one of the hottest ever), Slack, who likely was around $30m ARR or so … and hadn’t yet added a sales team! It’s about scale and revenue. At a high level, why are things scaling faster than ever from your perspective?

Scale 363

Scale Sales Hiring PayPal Development Team Review 363