SaaStr

MARCH 6, 2024

Founder CEO Todd McKinnon was VP of Engineering at Salesforce and left to start Okta in the depths of the last downturn. Seat Contractions Have Brought NRR Down From 120% to 111% While 111% NRR is still quite an engine at this scale, the drop in NRR from seat contractions explains a good chunk of the headwinds Okta has seen. #2.

Fractional VPE 224

Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE Scale SMB 224

SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2022

WorkOS CEO Michael Grinich, Developer Success Manager Betsy Calender, and VP of Developer Experience Zeno Rocha share how to price your product for developers, how to market it to developers, how to how to support them as they scale and use the products. Doing Business with Developers. The contract size grows.

Underperforming Technical Team 185

Underperforming Technical Team Outsourced Development Development Part-Time VPE 185

Sales Hacker

JULY 8, 2019

How to Analyze a SaaS Business Effectively w/ David Skok. Kim herself is an incredible executive, and she walks through both professional lessons about how to scale a customer success organization, but also life lessons about how to reenter the workforce. If you missed episode 64, check it out here: PODCAST 64. What You’ll Learn.

Customer Success 58

Customer Success Scale Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE 58

SaaStr

JULY 12, 2022

The Number One Thing You Can Do to Accelerate Your Business Post-Initial Traction is Hiring a Great VP of Sales. What I want to talk about today is perhaps the mistake that most of us make, by my nonstatistical study, 70 percent of us make, which is not hiring the right VP of sales. It’s a cash-driven business.

Sales Hiring 266

Sales Hiring Part-Time VPE VP of Engineering Sales Recruiting 266

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 130

Scale Scaling CTO Hire Part-Time VPE 130

SaaStr

JULY 30, 2020

Peter Kazanjy: So at TalentBin, that was kind of like my first training wheels, SaaS business, and also the place where I started to learn and appreciate go to market. So I went from being a business generalist founder, so prior to that I was in product marketing and product management at VMware, so big enterprise software company.

Part-Time VPE 208

Part-Time VPE Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 208

SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

The problem is that he was in business school, working towards an MBA. Dharmesh : Then it occurred to me a few minute after that thought, that actually I was in business school, too… [laughter]. We’ve got a bunch of MBAs trying to build a SaaS business here. I’m paraphrasing… [laughter].

Part-Time VPE 229

Part-Time VPE Technical Cofounder CTO Hire New CTO 229