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. Salesforce and Marc Benioff at first said the core market, security identity, was too small of a market. Their multi-million dollar contracts are 30%. #5. The story is super inspiring.

Fractional VPE 226

Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE Scale SMB 226

SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

I’m going to skip by my life story, and how I grew up as a small child in India, and how the dusty streets influenced my take on unit economics, and SaaS subscription models. The problem is that he was in business school, working towards an MBA. We’ve got a bunch of MBAs trying to build a SaaS business here.

Part-Time VPE 231

Part-Time VPE Technical Cofounder CTO Hire New CTO 231

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.

Part-Time VPE 102

Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 102