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State of the Cloud 2019: Europa Edition with Alex Ferrara, Bessemer Venture Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Bessemer Venture Partners’ Alex Ferrara takes a look at trends and predictions for the cloud industry in 2019. One of the most popular sessions from SaaStr Annual, this presentation will provides an in-depth look at the cloud computing industry across Europe and globally. Want to see more content like this?

Cloud 100
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SaaStr Classic: Jyoti Bansal of Harness.io and AppDynamics; Dev Ittycheria of MongoDB (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

I still remember the very first time I met Dev back in 2011 and I was this engineer turn first-time founder, CEO running the business. You can have the great product and a great team, but the market of small or very niche. And then what’s your unique advantage as a company, as the team? Jyoti Bansal: Yeah.

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Drata’s CEO Adam Markowitz on creating a culture of cyber security

Intercom, Inc.

After working on NASA’s Space Shuttle Main Engine, he went on to develop Portfolium, a social networking platform that allows students and graduates to showcase skills beyond the traditional resume to potential employers. Portfolium was eventually acquired, but the team behind it never stopped thinking about a better way to do it.

Scale 211
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A Brief History of SaaSOps (And Why it Matters)

BetterCloud

Most people at that company hadn’t even imagined the concept of things like email or Microsoft Word living exclusively in the cloud—especially on the enterprise level. In fact, there were a lot of people who thought it was a really bad idea. You’re putty in the hands of whoever developed that software.”.

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PODCAST 86: Strategic Vs Tactical Approach in Sales Planning with Mary Rogul

Sales Hacker

She’s now a consultant helping VPs of Sales scale and build their sales teams. She’s also been a high-performing individual contributor — she was part of the team that drove a lot of growth at HubSpot as it went from small to large, and she worked under Mark Roberge. What You’ll Learn. Who is Mary Rogul. One of them’s brand new.

Scale 52
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SaaStr Podcast #218: Twilio Founder, Jeff Lawson & SendGrid CEO, Sameer Dholakia on Why Developer First Is A Maturation In The Supply Chain Of Software

SaaStr

Prior to joining SendGrid, he spent 4 years at Citrix, where he drove the company’s product strategy for cloud infrastructure and server virtualization. What does Jeff mean when he says, “the developer first approach is a maturation of the supply chain of software?” How can leaders both be authoritative and vulnerable simultaneously?

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Norman Crowley on uncovering the business opportunities in tackling climate change

Intercom, Inc.

The Cool Planet Group CEO has had a fascinating career to date, having started and sold three businesses for over three-quarters of a billion dollars before he was forty – including Inspired Gaming and The Cloud. We were fairly poor. So I started to develop a hankering for making money at an early age.