SaaStr

MARCH 6, 2024

Founder CEO Todd McKinnon was VP of Engineering at Salesforce and left to start Okta in the depths of the last downturn. Seat Contractions Have Brought NRR Down From 120% to 111% While 111% NRR is still quite an engine at this scale, the drop in NRR from seat contractions explains a good chunk of the headwinds Okta has seen. #2.

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

The problem is that he was in business school, working towards an MBA. Dharmesh : Then it occurred to me a few minute after that thought, that actually I was in business school, too… [laughter]. We’ve got a bunch of MBAs trying to build a SaaS business here. I’m paraphrasing… [laughter].

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Outseta

MAY 8, 2020

Before I lived it, I thought of the tech world as being very business oriented—a place owned by analytical types and developers writing rigid blocks of code that looked like gibberish to me. The business benefits aside, the real benefit of remote work is it’s simply a better lifestyle for most workers.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 17, 2019

And we were using a solution from Amazon AWS… We had one big issue first, which was a number of regions they were supporting were not the same vendors. The engineering team was super, super small at this moment. When we did this studies and where we were having to sign the contract with the AnyCasts provider, we took some time.

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SaaStr

JUNE 25, 2019

I started right at the end of 2011, and I started in the role of VP of engineering. I came into a company that was growing really quickly, which was fantastic, but in my role I was told I needed to be able to grow our engineering team fast enough to keep up with the needs of a very successful, very growing business.

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