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Samsara S-1: How 7 Key Benchmarks Stack Up

Tom Tunguz

Founded by Sanjit Biswas, former CEO at Meraki and John Bicket former CTO at Meraki[link] Samsara builds software to manage physical operations: truck fleets, mining, food & beverage, oil & gas. Revenue, $M. Revenue Growth. -. in revenue in fiscal year 2020, to $432m in the first three quarters of fiscal 2022.

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“What Do You Mean They Quit?!” Don’t Give Your Engineers a Reason to Leave with Notion’s Head of Engineering: Michael Manapat, Change.org’s CTO: Elaine Zhou, and Plato’s CEO: Quang Hoang (Video)

SaaStr

Co-founder and CEO of Plato, Quong Hoang, the #1 mentoring platform for engineering leaders , helped moderate a discussion between CTO of Change.org, Elaine Zhou, and Head of Engineering at Notion, Michael Manapat, on this subject. Companies must prove they have the growth, revenue, and users to warrant serious talent. Career Growth.

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How to Think of R&D Spend

Andreessen Horowitz

Most growth-stage CEOs I work with know how to tell if they’re efficiently allocating capital in every part of their budget with one glaring exception: research and development (R&D). G&A), especially in tougher market conditions, is often a matter of assessing office space, worker productivity, legal costs, etc.

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How to Categorize Expenses in a SaaS Startup v2.0

Baremetrics

Here’s an overview of the series: Part 1: How to Categorize Expenses in a SaaS Startup v2.0 Even without any breakdowns, obviously the CEO was fully aware of the company’s increased spending in sales and marketing. Cost of Revenue Let’s start with your Cost of Revenue.

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2020 SaaS C-Suite Evolving to Support Product and Customer Lifecycle Management

OPEXEngine

Separate Sales, Marketing, R&D, Accounting/Finance organizations were headed by a senior executive. Chief Customer Officer or Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). The Chief Customer Officer includes all of Sales and Marketing and covers the whole customer journey, from lead through customer renewal. Chief Performance Officer.

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Making the jump from Customer Success to CEO with FranConnect’s Gabby Wong

ChurnZero

Today, division leaders who run market-facing GTM functions account for 36% of CEO appointments. In the session’s Q&A, Gabby further explores shifts in the CEO persona, the importance of professional sponsors, and expanding to serve an entire market. We hire a third-party firm. People knew us in mid-market.

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SaaS FP&A – Are You Up to the Challenge?

OPEXEngine

Over the past decade benchmarking software and SaaS companies , I’ve had the chance at OPEXEngine to work with hundreds of amazing Finance execs who work incredibly hard at getting the right data to support their company’s goals. SaaS Finance Benchmarks. Ability to accurately benchmark key metrics against peers and market leaders.

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