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Samsara’s Rise to Vertical SaaS Leader and $1B+ ARR with Samsara’s CEO and Co-Founder, Sanjit Biswas and SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

So we became fascinated by the market and the customer. And while we were tinkering, we were building little sensor systems, cause we knew how to make hardware and we knew how to cloud connect it.” Ben Calderon, Samsara’s CTO who runs the hardware team did the hardware at Meraki.

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

SaaStr

We replace on-prem software and hardware with a pure cloud solution. It’s a very large market, it’s been historically dominated by people like Cisco, Avaya, the big guys and we are hoping to become the next big guy there by displacing and dislodging those people. Vlad: So what’s the new reality? So do spend the money.

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Learning to Love the Art of Sales (As a Technical Founder) with Ross Mason, Founder of MuleSoft (Europa Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

At our inaugural SaaStr Europa last June, podcast host-with-the-most Harry Stebbings sat down with MuleSoft Founder and CTO Ross Mason to discuss the organization’s sales strategy, building a strong company culture, how to think about international expansion, and much more. We have a lot of technology trends, so cloud was pivotal.