SaaStr

MARCH 6, 2024

So Okta is one of our favorite SaaS and Cloud leaders. Founder CEO Todd McKinnon was VP of Engineering at Salesforce and left to start Okta in the depths of the last downturn. But like many SaaS and Cloud leaders today, the bigger ones are still growing faster. Their multi-million dollar contracts are 30%. #5.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 17, 2019

When it comes to seamlessly scaling your applications, a top-notch engineering team will be your foundation. Julian Lemoine, Co-Founder, and CTO of Algolia will share his lessons learned on how to stay focused and innovative as you scale while also avoiding the innovation for innovation’s sake pitfalls. Of course, not at scale.

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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. Let’s assume the probability of success for a SaaS company is roughly one percent, and that formula is true, given some definition of success, right?

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