SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2019

In this session, Anna and Sameer will highlight SendGrid’s journey from growth stage through acquisition and why focusing on people and culture is mission critical to success as a company goes through the scaling process. We had a great easy-to-use pricing model. We should talk about that more and then we can scale that more?

Scale 137

Scale Acquisition Scaling Sales Hiring 137

Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

And so when Amazon called me and they’re like, “Hey you want to come with us and do you want to actually start the mobile services, backend business within AWS?” David: Maybe you can talk about that transition, coming from a business like AWS to financial services, which I think was new for you.

Development 101

Development Technical Review AI AWS 101

SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

I just thought that if there was anybody left at the end of day two that had anything they wanted to talk about, scaling SaaS, fundraising, hiring, anything, and I could be helpful, we could do a little extra Q&A. I’m going to get the numbers wrong, I think Amazon has 10,000 open positions out in AWS. It works out.

Sales Hiring 199

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Scaling 199

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.

Scale 127

Scale Scaling CTO Hire Part-Time VPE 127

SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2024

Also, don’t miss out on discounted prices for SaaStr Annual 2024 tickets. ” “I hated Katie at that company meeting, it was awful.” We add human touches to as many things as possible, and then we innovate and listen to our employees, at scale, and the results, I think, speak for themselves.

Part-Time CTO 260

Part-Time CTO CTO Hire CTO Coach CTO 260

SaaStr

JULY 29, 2020

So huge scale, we stop about 15 billion cyberattacks daily on behalf of those 26 million internet properties. Ben : In terms of when you were ideating on Cloudflare, how did you get to a conviction on the scale of what you were solving and the size of the market? And I remember like AWS was growing really quickly.

Sales Hiring 172

Sales Hiring Outsourcing Services Scale Sales Recruiting 172

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 15, 2020

Finally, before YesWare, she was VP of Sales @ Engine Yard, where she tripled monthly recurring revenue, over the course of her 3+ year tenure, in 3 key leadership roles. It’s not just pricing, it goes all through the rollout, Harry, of what it’s going to look like as we rollout. So a huge scale.

Sales Hiring 200

Sales Hiring Scale Technical Review Outsourcing Services 200

SaaStr

JUNE 15, 2021

We’ve done a ton of terrific sessions with the Twilio leadership over the years, including 4 different deep dives with Jeff Lawson, CEO and co-founder. How sales worked, how pricing worked, how billboards work, and more. It’s an obviously a great way to differentiate your pricing. Jason : The entry point.

Scale 292

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Engineering Wireless 292

SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

It was around that time about 12 years ago that Jeff Bezos launched AWS, and some of you may remember that, when he did this, Wall Street analysts were looking at him and saying, “Why would you take what’s already a very unprofitable business and drive it further into the red by investing in this AWS initiative?”

Cloud 100

Cloud Scale AWS Machine Learning 100

SaaStr

APRIL 24, 2020

327: John Mellor is Chief Strategy Officer @ Domo, the company that allows you to leverage BI at scale to empower your team with data. How does John think about the role of leadership in a crisis such as this? Where does John believe many leadership teams go wrong in times such as this? John Mellor: Adobe was a great experience.

Scale 218

Scale Leadership Strategy Technology 218

OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2019

That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). Tools like Outreach – which recently reached unicorn status – make it exceedingly easy to contact potential prospects across all channels at scale.

Scale 70

Scale Startup Technical Review Software Review 70

SaaStr

OCTOBER 3, 2019

And those of us and those of you who are involved in these companies, even the successful ones look an awful lot more like this. There were a dozen super well-funded, really good software companies trying to be the market leader in marketing automation and that lengthened sales cycles, and it reduced pricing, it reduced margins.

SaaS 148

SaaS Sales Hiring Scale Innovation 148

SaaStr

JUNE 3, 2020

Then we went on to build another company called SteelBrick, another SaaS configure price quoting solution. And G2 Gives, we partner with philanthropies, we partner with some of our customers like AWS and Google Cloud, who can then make donations for every review, to thank their customers. And that company grew very quickly.

Software Review 185

Software Review Scale Technical Review SaaS 185

OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2019

That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). Tools like Outreach – which recently reached unicorn status – make it exceedingly easy to contact potential prospects across all channels at scale.

Scale 51

Scale Startup Technical Review Software Review 51

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

So how can you leverage that product’s success to obtain the valuation and funding you need to scale? Everyone’s always like, “how did you guys scale so quickly,” and like, everyone loves this product. That’s a lot of money, especially at this scale. I didn’t have a hard job to do. Higher multiples.

Investment 100

Investment Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Software Review 100

SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Why does Liat reject the notion of “hands off leadership?”. Pricing? * Often early stage startups post raise need to scale and hire quickly. I think in general it’s only fair to the team, especially to those top performers, for the leadership of that organization to address performance issues as soon as possible.

Sales Hiring 108

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Underperforming Technical Team 108

OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2019

That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). Tools like Outreach – which recently reached unicorn status – make it exceedingly easy to contact potential prospects across all channels at scale.

Scale 40

Scale Startup Technical Review Software Review 40

SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

It’s an essential skill in the toolkit of the modern marketer, and one that’s easy to get started with, no matter your company scale. And I think what it taught me on the operating side was that consistency is absolutely fundamental scale. This episode is sponsored by Brex. Company was going through massive hyper growth.

Technical Advisors 154

Technical Advisors Scale Technical Review Payment Solutions 154

SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

And I remember being at that Dreamforce in 2009, which was awful. So on a scale of one to 10, what type of feedback do you want? The CEO says SaaStr scale is really important that everyone drops everything, and it’s not that important. ” I’m like, that sounds awful. I mean, literally.

Sales Hiring 210

Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 210

ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

One of the most famous lines from Citizen Kane is, “It's no trick to make an awful lot of money, if that's all you want is to do is make a lot of money.” It is vital for mapping out values: what value to offer in the market, how it’s priced, and how it’s paid for by your customers. The scale of exposure you’re shooting for.

Payments 40

Payments Revenue Payment Methods SaaS Payments 40

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Bringing Sales & Leadership with Heart and Ladies Happy Hour to the sales community. 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. She is a Speaker and Hostess for LinkedIn Live. What is one a-ha moment you’ve had in your sales career?

Scale 130

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 130