SaaStr

JUNE 3, 2020

And then I spent a year at Salesforce working on Marc Benioff’s extended leadership team, and really had a chance to learn how important trust can be, and also really learn from Salesforce, from Mark, how do you really build a global SaaS leader at scale? And that company grew very quickly.

Software Review 181

Software Review Scale Technical Review SaaS 181

SaaStr

MARCH 22, 2023

Ed Lenta, the SVP and GM of Databricks, had the rare opportunity of scaling three hypergrowth companies — VMware, AWS, and Databricks. Is there a recipe or formula that will predict the success of a pre-growth, high-potential company? Invest in and put that into the market to start softening the beach.

Scale 203

Scale Scaling AWS Sales Hiring 203

SaaStr

OCTOBER 15, 2019

So one place would be in your customer success organization. We were doing more customer support, less customer success. It was less about making sure that customers were happy and individually reaching out to them. So that means retooling your customer success organization. Thanks Allie.

Underperforming Technical Team 156

Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring compliance SMB 156

SmartKarrot

MARCH 2, 2023

Here are the top 15 venture capital podcast leaders shaping the industry with their visionary and thought leading podcasts covering a range of topics from startups, investments, trends, interviews, and more! He invested in more than 20 early-stage companies. Azeem is also a creator of the Exponential View newsletter and podcast.

Venture Capital 10

Venture Capital Scale Entrepreneurship EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) 10

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Investing at a breathtaking pace. In many ways, your Quality of Life will simply be awful. Your quality of life will simply be awful if your co-founders aren’t as committed as you, and if they aren’t at least close to as good as you. This friend is one of the hardest working people in the industry. Do not pass go.

Part-Time VPE 281

Part-Time VPE CTO Hire AWS New CTO 281

SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Most recently Yousuf was the CIO & VP of Customer Success @ Moveworks, the advanced AI built for enterprise providing automatic resolution of IT issues. Most recently, Yousuf was the CIO and VP of Customer Success at Moveworks, the advanced AI built for enterprise, providing automatic resolution of IT issues.

Technical Advisors 161

Technical Advisors Scale Technical Review Payment Solutions 161

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Bringing Sales & Leadership with Heart and Ladies Happy Hour to the sales community. Jen believes everyone should have the opportunity to be seen, heard, valued, and empowered for success. I went through a VP of Sales Program with SaaSy Sales Leadership — the moment I realized I didn’t want to be a VP of Sales.

Scale 130

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 130

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

We’ve all seen AWS and what they’ve done with their platform. One of the early co-investments with my prior firm in Bessemer was in Shopify. If you look at companies like Cornerstone OnDemand, which we invested in a long time ago, it took them some time to get to 100 million of ARR. It is staggering.

Sales Hiring 159

Sales Hiring Scale Payments Cloud 159

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Our private membership connects you with a network of thousands of like-minded peers and resources, where you can tap into leadership opportunities, training, mentoring, and other services made for high-growth leaders like you. We work really closely, we have the sales leadership, Jed Smith is my peer. Amy: Totally.

Sales Recruiting 79

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Marketing Underperforming Technical Team 79

SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Why does Liat reject the notion of “hands off leadership?”. How does Liat think Airtable is pushing up against the traditional customer success model? 277: When is the right time to go upmarket and how do you serve small, medium and large customers in the same company. Is there ever a right way to do it?

Sales Hiring 111

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Underperforming Technical Team 111

SaaStr

JULY 10, 2020

I’ve held a bunch of technology leadership roles in startups, in rocket ships and turnarounds, including about 10 years at Google, and just over three years leading efforts at Evernote. So over the course of those 20 or so odd years in technology leadership roles. Thank you, Jason and the SaaStr community, for including me.

Scale 189

Scale Sales Hiring Pricing Sales Recruiting 189

SaaStr

MAY 21, 2019

78 times in the AWS … ADABAS was referenced in the Amazon press release and earnings announcement. Now, let’s imagine that this company, over the last few years, heavily invested in customer success and really drove up their net retention by 15 points and let’s say, they’re 125% net retention.

Cloud 167

Cloud Scale Finance Retention 167