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Samsara S-1: How 7 Key Benchmarks Stack Up

Tom Tunguz

Founded by Sanjit Biswas, former CEO at Meraki and John Bicket former CTO at Meraki[link] Samsara builds software to manage physical operations: truck fleets, mining, food & beverage, oil & gas. in revenue in fiscal year 2020, to $432m in the first three quarters of fiscal 2022. But these contracts produce compelling economics.

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Be Careful Hiring “Dualies” — Folks That Are a VP of More Than One Thing

SaaStr

— Jason BeKind Lemkin (@jasonlk) October 9, 2020. Anyhow the one thing I learned, beyond getting help screening and hiring for these positions from domain experts, is to look for Flags. For signs the prospective hire just won’t work out, no matter how strong they might look on paper. I’ve had to recruit Ph.Ds.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Lucidchart and Wrike — February 28, 2020

SaaStr

. * How does one know when we need to hire generalists vs specialists? Karl has been in every interview for every new hire for the first 6 years of the business, why? * Karl has been in every interview for every new hire for the first 6 years of the business, why? How does Karl structure the hiring process today?

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Crossbeam and Podium – January 10, 2020

SaaStr

Before that Bob co-founded RJ Metrics, where he built a global base of online retailers leading to their acquisition by Magento Commerce in 2016. What were the core mistakes that he made with RJ Metrics? How does Bob think about when is the right time to hire a Head of Partnerships? Loving our podcast content?

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2020 SaaS C-Suite Evolving to Support Product and Customer Lifecycle Management

OPEXEngine

The siloed management structure paralleled the key components of Operating Expense, making it easy to report backward-looking Income Statement expenses and recognized revenues, but not cross-functional customer and product lifecycle metrics, critical to managing a SaaS company. Chief Product Officer.

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AMA at SaaStr Annual 2022 with SaaStr Founder & CEO Jason Lemkin – Part 1 (Pod 607 + Video)

SaaStr

Your core models for sales, for marketing spend, for hiring and engineering and product. Audience Member 4: I have two questions for you, about when you had to cancel SaaStr Annual in 2020. And in January of 2020, the CDC put out an email that said COVID might be an issue for travel. We have a 60% chance that we can do it.

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How QuikNode is Handling Growth in the Blockchain Industry

Baremetrics

Baremetrics spoke with co-founder Dmitry Shklovsky to learn more about QuikNode and how they use Baremetrics to understand key financial metrics, translate cancellation data to inform product iteration, and sustain long-term growth. To continue fundraising, it was clear that QuikNode had to dial deeper into business metrics.