SaaStr

MARCH 16, 2025

Alex Rosenblatt was the first marketing hire and Chief Marketing Officer at Datadog, all the way through IPO and beyond. And see everyone at SaaStr Annual 2025, May 13-15 in SF Bay!! At Datadog, their first focus was sponsored trade shows – specifically targeting the AWS ecosystem. The problem?

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Scale Sales Hiring Scaling Marketing 236

Clouded Judgement

JUNE 17, 2025

And no, this wasn’t all because of leap year last year (that would only account for a ~3% delta at most) The Hyperscalers (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) also declined net new adds year over year, but not by as much. In theory, any growth rate is possible with an unlimited budget to hire AEs.

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Cloud Software Benchmarks Retention 277

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

In the latest episode of SaaStr’s CRO Confidential Series, our host Sam Blond sits down with Ron Gabrisko, CRO of Databricks , to unpack the journey from $1M in ARR to crossing $3B ARR at the end of January 2025. His view is your sales team teaches your customers how to get value out of your product.

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Scale Sales Hiring Scaling Revenue 169

SaaStr

MAY 31, 2024

1: How Sales and Marketing Have Shifted Since 2020 Expectations and the types of people working in SaaS have shifted over the past few years, and much more in sales, marketing, and customer success. . #1: He had a friend help him hire an email marketer to send ticket emails to the events. There’s no choice.

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Marketing Scale 295

How To Buy Saas

MAY 21, 2025

In the fast-paced hiring landscape of 2025, an Applicant Tracking System (ATS) has become an essential tool for companies of all sizes and sectors. Importantly, ATS platforms have evolved with AI-driven features , diversity and bias reduction tools , and deep analytics to meet todays hiring challenges.

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Systems Review Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Technical Review 52

SaaStr

JUNE 26, 2024

SaaStr founder and CEO Jason Lemkin shares his take on the current SaaS landscape midway through 2024 and what might be coming next in 2025 at the opener to this year’s SaaStr Europa. If B2C rebounded back in 2023, that means 2025 might be a little easier for a lot of folks in classic B2B. Just build. That still holds true today.

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CTO Hire AI Venture Capital Sales Hiring 141

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 13, 2025

Over the years, he built and scaled a world-class sales organization, creating a team that generated hundreds of millions in revenue. This success was underpinned by five distinct phases of growth, each requiring a unique type of sales leader and leadership approach. seller, head of sales, or commercial cofounder).

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