SaaStr

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

It will be in March this year for one year in 2020, before we go back to February for 2021 on. But what’s new this year? Let me make a list: New!! We’re super excited to have partnered with Women in Revenue to bring a mini event-within-an-event for women leaders in SaaS and Cloud. 4,000+ CEOs. 1,000+ VCs.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Because as a SaaS founder especially, it can be hard to know. I asked Todd McKinnon, founder-CEO of Okta when he really knew he had something that couldn’t be stopped, and he said $30m-$40m ARR! — Jason BeKind Lemkin (@jasonlk) February 6, 2021. ” — Jason Riedel, founder/CTO of Aspireship.

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CTO Hire New CTO CTO Healthcare 287

SaaStr

JUNE 6, 2021

There’s so much incredible new content on the SaaStr YouTube Channel and podcast — check it all out here ! And with 20+ sessions from the recent SaaStr Enterprise to dig into alone, as well as an incredible new session with the CEO of Klaviyo. OK — now on to The Top 10. The 10 most watched videos of the week.

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2020

Juggling People, Processes & Priorities: CTO Leadership Lessons from the Front Lines. How to Design and Build a SaaS Platform Pressure Tested for the Enterprise. The Secrets to Vertical Growth: What It Really Takes to Build a $1B+ SaaS Company. How to Design and Build a SaaS Platform Pressure Tested for the Enterprise.

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Technical Cofounder Enterprise New CTO CTO 202

Point Nine Land

APRIL 9, 2021

What does it take to raise capital, in B2B marketplaces, in 2021? Over the last few years, we’ve published a number of SaaS funding napkins as well as marketplace napkins. As a result, we could not collect as many data points as we do for our SaaS napkin. What does it take to raise capital, in B2B marketplaces, in 2021?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 4, 2022

In 7 years from launch in hit $100m in ARR in 2019, and then $200m in 2021, just two years later. 500k+ deals make up half their revenue, and $1m deals 37%. $500k+ deals made up 41% of Braze’s revenue in 2021 and 2020, and $1m+ deals grew to 37% of their revenue, up from 25%. A good yardstick for more enterprise-focused SaaS.

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New CTO CTO Software Review B2B 62

Natalia Luneva

APRIL 30, 2021

In my guest post on CustomerThink I talked about the benefits of community building and how it helps SaaS companies get a few steps ahead of their competition. To get more practical, I recently interviewed over 10 SaaS companies and asked them 4 questions: Which platform(s) do you use to run your community? . We have received over 2.6k

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Marketing Social Media SaaS New CTO 98

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

As a SaaS business, Intercom is a data processor: our customers entrust us with their data, which we store and process on their behalf. Understanding the guardrails we need to build means closely tracking meaningful change across Intercom and making sure we’re on top of new initiatives”. Evolving security landscape.

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Data compliance Technical Review CTO Hire 118

Point Nine Land

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

How Factorial is building a global SaaS winner from Barcelona, and why you should always listen to your dentist Yesterday, P9 Family member Factorial announced an $80 million Series B led by Tiger Global. 1) You can build a global SaaS winner from Europe Until a few years ago, European SaaS startups with big ambitions had to move to the US.

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Venture Capital New CTO Scale CTO 52

BetterCloud

JANUARY 21, 2021

Last year, our CEO David Politis sat down for a wide-ranging chat with Bharat Mediratta, CTO of Dropbox. So to ring in 2021, I’m going to take pen to paper and explore how close Slack is coming to beating email. We’ve written a number of times that most SaaS applications are insanely easy for any user to sign up for.

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2024

In it, we cover the SaaS community’s most pressing questions about Artificial Intelligence (AI), pricing, efficiency, and funding. The average public SaaS company is marching toward $400k in revenue per employee. Is the CTO involved in these decisions? Is SaaS dead right now? You have to be so much more efficient.

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AI Pricing Artificial Intelligence Scale 240

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

In today’s data-driven SaaS scene, these can affect hundreds of millions of users and cause damage in the billions of dollars, and as compliance frameworks become requirements to do business, businesses are turning to third-party services that can help expedite and facilitate the process. Liam: The whole area is a new space.

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Scale compliance Software Review Technical Review 211

SaaStr

JULY 13, 2023

It’s too much to learn on the fly for most new VPs of Sales. This isn’t really a thing in SaaS at the moment, so if you can find someone who has been outbound for more than three or four years and you can smell the passion coming out of their pores, give them a path so they know they aren’t stuck with a second tier pack.

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CTO Hire Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale 184

BetterCloud

AUGUST 11, 2020

We’re also unique in that we’re entirely SaaS-based and didn’t have a lot of overhead in the legacy environment that I know a lot of other people probably have. I would love for my team to not have to go into any admin panels for any of the SaaS tools that we use. Or what does the roadmap look like?

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CTO Hire New CTO Identity management Scale 52

SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

As part of the run up to 2021 SaaStr Annual in the SF Bay Area Sep 27-29 , we’re taking a look back at some of our favorite classic sessions. (And And grab the best deal ever on 2021 Annual tickets here ). Hubspot today is a $23B juggernaut. But of course, it wasn’t always quite that big! A SaaStr Classic!! Work with me here.

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User Pilot

MARCH 7, 2024

78% of women in tech report feeling like they must work harder than male coworkers to prove themselves [Source: Trustradius , 2021]. So I talked to several female leaders in SaaS – about their experience with breaking into leadership positions in tech startups – what challenges they’ve faced, and how they managed to overcome them.

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Technical Review CTO Coach Sales Hiring CTO Hire 105

SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

365: The Office of the Future, How Everything’s Changed and What 2021 Will be Like with Justin Bedecarre, CEO @ HelloOffice and Jen Nguyen, Founding Partner @ TEAMWERC. We have Slack saying, “Hey, we’re not going to consider going back into the office until 2021.” We’re already in this like a new gen.”

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Sales Recruiting Cloud CTO Hire Scale 147

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Alex Kayyal and Julie Kainz, Partners at Lightspeed, shared at SaaStr Annual a framework they developed around how to think about this new era of Artificial Intelligence in SaaS, what opportunities are out there for startups, and how to think about incumbents. CRM wasn’t a new category, but they were done on-premise.

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AI Artificial Intelligence Healthcare New CTO 219

SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2022

In a tougher public market for SaaS commpanies, VCs are pulling term sheets again, and deals are also falling apart again after soft commitments. Also, be aware VCs are a lot more sensitive to early and unusual founder secondary liquidity than they were in the Go-Go Days of 2021. But now we’re back full circle.

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

As part of the run up to 2021 SaaStr Annual in the SF Bay Area Sep 27-29, we’re taking a look back at some of our top sessions of all times. And if you haven’t heard: SaaStr Annual will be back in 2021 , bigger and better than ever! As you said, people take it hard if suddenly you say, “Hey, this is your new EVP.

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Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Development Team Review CTO Hire 255