article thumbnail

Doubling Down: Erica Brescia, Managing Director at Redpoint Ventures

SaaStr

“Doubling Down” is a new series where we hear from top B2B SaaS investors on their most recent activities and takes on the current market. Jason Warner , who was CTO of GitHub before and during my time as COO there (and a former partner at Redpoint!) Check that out here. What’s your most recent disclosed investment?

article thumbnail

Founder Interview: Amanda Szabo, founder and CEO, ResortPass

Mucker Capital

After all, thanks to the rise of Airbnb and similar platforms, the hospitality industry was looking for new revenue streams to boost bottom lines. I did some traveling and ended up going to New York City. I’m also technical, so I started my first business doing video production in the events space. She was right.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

SaaStr Podcast #214: Erica Schultz, CRO @ New Relic on What It Takes To Successfully Scale Into Enterprise

SaaStr

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.

Scale 186
article thumbnail

PODCAST 123: How to Go From a Transactional Model to a Subscription Model with Brandon Meyers

Sales Hacker

We’ve got two sponsors, including a new one called Sapper Consulting. He is the chief revenue officer of a company called ADARA, a data cooperative focused on the travel and discretionary spending space, so we’ll dig into that. Walk us through the basic business model. So it’s a great show.

article thumbnail

From Idea to Billion Dollar Business: the RingCentral Journey (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Jonathan : Travel. Well I mean more of the hotel business. Jonathan : Hotel business? Vlad : Hotel-ing business, right? Or Uber, the car rental business, right? Vlad: So what’s the new reality? So we needed to kind of get the new mindset going. Vlad : Well we did have to hire a new CFO.

Scale 154
article thumbnail

Laura Klein on improving chemistry in product teams

Intercom, Inc.

Every so often, you’re going to have to go one way or the other, but when we find that the business and the user are in conflict – or we’re thinking from the perspective that if it’s a good business decision then it’s going to be bad for the user – that’s just a bad place to be. Making remote product teams succeed.

article thumbnail

Manual Automation: How to build software with no code

Hacking Revenue

We can put together a WordPress website and we have some fancy badges in CodeAcademy, but no CTO in his right mind will let either of us touch their production environment and/or keyboard. But we do know how online businesses work. We spent years studying the ins and outs of online business models and growth techniques.