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SaaStr Classic: Jyoti Bansal of Harness.io and AppDynamics; Dev Ittycheria of MongoDB (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

They talked about product adoption, sales alignment, freemium models and lessons they have learned throughout their successful SaaS careers. As two CEO who love the art of sales and scaling, this one really was special. And we were like less than 10 million ARR and business was doing very well. So that’s easy.

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From Bootstrapped to Category Leader: Lessons from Zapier’s Founders

OpenView Labs

Today, we are a 100% distributed team of over 250 people providing millions of loyal users with the ability to connect business apps and automate workflows. Since our founding in 2011, we’ve come a long way. That was our hint that people wanted to connect tools and get their software working together. And I learned a lot.

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What Are The Top 50 SaaS Companies in 2020?

SmartKarrot

In this blog we’ll talk about SaaS business and top 50 SaaS companies in 2020. SaaS businesses are organizations that provide subscription-based software applications that are centrally hosted on their servers over the internet. And the result is visible! Solarwinds. Customer Support. Raising a $2.8

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SaaStr Podcast #212: Nick Mehta, CEO @ Gainsight Discusses Why Burying Customer Success Under Sales Does Not Work

SaaStr

As for Nick, prior to Gainsight he was the CEO @ LiveOffice where he grew cloud archiving ARR from $2m in 2008 to $25m in 2011 and drove and negotiated the acquisition by Symantec for $115m in cash. What should the optimal sales to customer success relationship look like? Why does this have such a high rate of failure?

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CEOs of Zapier, Walkme and Dialpad: How to Build Your First Management Team (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Then we needed to hire a sales guy who had experience selling to enterprise. We got the guy who ran enterprise sales at Rackspace. UberConference started as this freemium, kind of funnel builder for later sales product. Dan : We’d start it with sales. As a B2B enterprise company, sales was our first key.