SaaStr

JULY 14, 2022

This led to our first meet-ups in 2013 and 2014, the first SaaStr Annual in 2015 , the industry’s leading podcast in 2016, the first SaaS founder coworking space in 2017, and SaaStr Pro , the first learning management system for SaaS founders in 2018. But all this was pretty novel back in 2014. We went digital!

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

Rachel Hepworth: In 2014 and 2015, Slack had this incredible growth, but it was growth off a small base, based on very early adopters. We use a multi-touch attribution system. We spent a lot of time and effort setting up that foundational system, making sure that our data was really good. Here’s Rachel.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

A thanks to [Marsh 00:00:34] for stepping in at the beginning of the month, and a great session with our own Jason Warner and Adrian, the CTO of Zendesk. Lionetti, the CMO at Confluent, and most recently, the CTO from Zendesk, Adrian. Excited to be back emceeing. That was the start of the Month of Scale.

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SaaStr

APRIL 9, 2019

Mallun Yen : So, you were an engineer by training and then you became an engineering leader, as the CTO of Webex, and then you became a CEO. You’ve got to learn about sales, about marketing and, otherwise, you need to hire a lot of other people around you to help. Eric Yuan: Because, at that time, we really needed a product.

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Sales Hiring Scale CTO Hire Marketing 136

SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2025

China Is Playing a Different Game Entirely The Models Youve Barely Heard Of: DeepSeek R1: 93% performance of OpenAI’s o3-mini at fraction of training cost Alibaba Qwen 2.5-Max: As Andrew Bosworth (Meta CTO) noted: “This is our space race…there’s very few secrets. 80% cheaper than predecessor, costs 0.2%

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

I’d taken lots of trips and managed a team out there and I decided to basically make the move to the Bay Area in 2014 as a CIO for a company called Qualys. And so the timing and opportunity just aligned and here I am. My advice is hire earlier rather than later. I was super excited by it.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Because it was 2014, 2015, and he’s having Mark Roberge in the early days of HubSpot before they went public. Let’s go hire somebody. Okay, now you got to go figure out how to hire and who to hire. and like boy is that, a lifelong pursuit of learning how to hire well, I still haven’t figured it out.

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