SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2025

The companies building on this new stack will have 10x advantages over those still running traditional architectures. Max: Outperforms both DeepSeek and ChatGPT on key benchmarks Baidu Ernie 4.5: As Andrew Bosworth (Meta CTO) noted: “This is our space race…there’s very few secrets. downloads in 10 weeks (3.4x

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Ben Calderon, Samsara’s CTO who runs the hardware team did the hardware at Meraki. Between Samsara’s innovation and market changes, they effectively unlocked a larger TAM. Once you start hearing 80 percent of customers are interested in something, a new product expansion, feature, or hardware, you should probably do it.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

362: The Future of the Customer with Bernadette Nixon, CEO @ Algolia, Jay Snyder, Chief Customer Officer @ New Relic, and Nick Mehta, CEO @ Gainsight. Nick Mehta: On a boat in Rhode Island and then our second guest Jay Snyder, who just recently took over as Chief Customer Officer of New Relic, publicly traded SaaS company.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 4, 2023

And, especially when you’re considering integrating a new technology platform into your business—like AI today, or cloud a decade ago—how do you invest in innovation without losing control of your runway and budget? Map your spend to your product roadmap, then attach an expected ROI and timeline for the expected return.

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SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

Erica Schultz is Chief Revenue Officer @ New Relic, the company that gives you the real time insights your software driven business needs to innovate faster. Prior to their IPO, New Relic raised over $214m in funding from some of the best in the business including Benchmark, Insight Venture Partners and Blackrock, to name a few.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 17, 2020

What can they do to enforce a sense of urgency when signing new clients? 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. Where do founders make mistakes in negotiation?

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SaaStr

JULY 19, 2019

Previously, Peter was also the CTO/CIO of CBS Interactive where he brought CBS into the cloud. At Sun, Peter was the CTO of the Liberty identity consortium that designed SAML 2. What benchmarks should startups bake into the agreements? * How has Peter found the transition from CTO to CEO this time?

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