SaaStr

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Check out the low down on our sponsors for SaaStr Scale who are helping to make this event happen. Grab your seat for their 12:30 PM PST workshop on Scaling with Speed: How to Streamline Your Revenue Operations with Conga. Check out Twilio during their workshop on December 9 at 10:30 AM PST while they discuss Driving Services at Scale.

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SaaStr

MAY 5, 2022

What are some of the foundational ways sales leaders can think about building their sales teams as their company continues to expand and grow? There’s no shortage of ways to tackle this challenge, but one thing is clear: build sales teams thoughtfully and intentionally. Principle #1: Ownership is Key.

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

Jessica Alexander, Senior Director Cloud Technology & OEM Partnerships, Crowdstrike. This episode is an excerpt from a session at SaaStr Scale. What you’ll see in that cloud spend box is actually Gartner’s 2020 estimate for infrastructure as a service spending for companies, which was $50 billion. Colleen Kapase.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 5, 2022

In 2015, SaaS cloud-based content management tool Box went public. We restructured all of our messaging around our Content Cloud to create a simplified go-to-market message that says what it does, and does what it says. At Box, we’ve found a lot of success in getting customers to adopt new features within Content Cloud.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

On December 8, join @Talend #CMO @LaurenV for a roundtable session at @saastr Scale 2020 "The Five Hardest #Marketing Decisions to Make and How to Get Them Right with Talend." Our next big digital mega-event SaaStr Scale is coming up soon, Dec 8-9!! Javier Molina, VP of Corporate Sales, MongoDB. Todd McKinnon, CEO, Okta.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In the latest installment of SaaStr’s What’s New series – where we sit down with the leaders in SaaS and Cloud for the inside scoop on what’s top of mind and what’s new, SaaStr CEO and Jason Lemkin chats with the CMO of Google Cloud, Alison Wagonfeld.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2023

And yet, overall Cloud spend continues to grow to record levels. Their Cloud business is on fire. SAP expects to close the year out with their Cloud and SaaS businesses at a $15 Billion run-rate. And even at that scale, Cloud sales are growing a stunning 16% (!). Salesforce is back to aggressive hiring.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 2, 2020

We’re gearing up for the next big digital mega-event, SaaStr Scale. See you next week at SaaStr Scale 2020!! The post 5,000+ CEOs and Founders Already Coming to SaaStr Scale NEXT WEEK! 20,000+ will watch and attend, and already 5,000 founders and CEOs are already signed up. appeared first on SaaStr.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Cliff Bockard, Senior Vice President of Revenue at DigitalOcean, joined us at SaaStr Scale to discuss how businesses can serve SMBs and still bring in large numbers of revenue. . So, they’re not diluting their efforts by going towards the “hyperscaler enterprise customers” or “niche developer clouds.” Market understanding.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Discover Bessemer Venture Partners’s annual State of the Cloud report, going through trends, benchmarks, and metrics that underpin the Cloud economy. The past twelve months have been relatively turbulent for Cloud founders. What does this mean for Cloud companies? What does this mean for Cloud companies?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

So no question many folks, especially selling sales and marketing tools, are having a pretty tough time of it. Overall, the BVP Nasdaq Emerging Cloud Index is up 22.97% this year. But still a reminder, quietly, this isn’t too bad a year or a time for many SaaS and Cloud leaders. But not everyone. Not by far. Not all.

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

However, continuing this way isn’t the path to huge scale. Three yards and a cloud of dust. To answer these questions, the team must look beyond this today’s one-on-ones and this month’s engineering milestones this quarter’s sales pipeline. There’s a critical step missing. Every damn day.

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SaaStr

JULY 28, 2021

Byron Deeter, general partner at Bessemer Venture Partners and I caught up on SaaS and Cloud in general and the upcoming Cloud100 awards and learnings. The full session is below and sign up for the Cloud 100 for FREE here. About 25% of the Cloud 100 top private SaaS companies are growing / grew 100% or more at $100m ARR (!).

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Clouded Judgement

APRIL 19, 2024

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Also - while they are not FCF positive, their LTM FCF margins were only (4%) Most IPOs set an initial range with the hopes of raising the range as they start meeting with prospective IPO investors. Follow along to stay up to date!

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SaaStr

MARCH 27, 2024

So we’ve probably covered HubSpot more than any other SaaS and Cloud leader on this 5 Interesting Learnings series, but there’s a good reason for it: First, HubSpot is a lot like most of us. It sells sales, marketing, support and more tools. So price increases don’t always automatically lead to an ACV / ARPU bump.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Want more leads, pipeline, influence, and awareness in 2024? Leading Public Cloud Company: “We got 110 qualified opportunities and converted 40 to sign-up for our offer. ” Public Fintech #2: “Our sales team walked away with over 100 qualified leads. .” Our prospects were there.

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Clouded Judgement

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Subscribe now Cloud Giants Report Q4 ‘23 Two quotes from the Amazon and Microsoft earnings call really stood out to me this week. Sometimes they’re classic cloud migrations. Subscribe now Share Clouded Judgement Leave a comment

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

In case u missed @SaaStrAnnual State of the Cloud w @bdeeter @TheValuesVC. ??Future Cloud proliferating globally ??B2B Automation at scale. This will usher in unlimited potential for new innovation and growth in SaaS and Cloud. # 2 Cloud is Eating Software. The astonishing fact is: cloud is eating software.

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Technical Review Cloud Software Review Technology 295

Clouded Judgement

APRIL 26, 2024

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Subscribe now Azure Report - Cloud Infra Looks Good! The full quote is below: “We expect capital expenditures to increase materially on a sequential basis driven by cloud and AI infrastructure investments. Top 5 Median: 16.8x

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 13, 2019

subscribers to the SaaStr Cloud Daily on Quora , 9,100,000+ views, and are adding thousands of new followers per week. One benefit from Cloud Daily is our community speaks and upvotes their top stories of the week. 6 Key Signs a VP Can’t Scale Beyond $5m-$10m ARR. 6 Key Signs a VP Can’t Scale Beyond $5m-$10m ARR.

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SaaStr

JULY 14, 2023

We’ll have 12,000+ of the best in SaaS and Cloud all coming together to share, scale, and learn. We’ll have over 100 of the leaders in SaaS as sponsors, from Salesforce to Expensify, from Google Cloud to G2, and so much more! Need leads? The post Need Leads? And our sponsors are a key part of it!

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 5, 2019

On this week’s episode of Scale, Matt Rogers, Head of SaaS Initiative at Google, is here to enlighten us. Over the course of his conversation with Amanda Connolly, Matt covers the challenges faced by SaaS companies both starting out and scaling in today’s swiftly evolving market. Another great use case?

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SaaStr

JUNE 27, 2019

Erica has led New Relic through massive growth, scaling the company’s enterprise business 10x since she joined the business pre-IPO. Erica will share the five critical steps (and some lessons learned along the way) for scaling in the enterprise. The first is a migration to the cloud. We operate at great scale.

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SaaStr

APRIL 17, 2024

They’re still transitioning from onprem / appliciance model to cloud, which makes some of the metrics a touch confusing. New Customers Still Growing 22% at Scale. For me, Net New Customer Count has become the metric I obsess the most about at scale. Since then, we’ve had just one — Klaviyo.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2021

Recently Bessemer Venture Partners did another great deep give on Cloud metrics at the Cloud 100. They’ll update their classic “State of the Cloud” on Sep 27-29 at SaaStr Annual 2021 in the SF Bay Area so come join us there for the latest! SaaS is scaling faster than ever. But the next generation?

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: Why Your Cost of Sales Generally Doubles As You Scale. State of the Cloud 2022: The Centaur Report With Bessemer Venture Partners (Pod 593 + Video). How Long It Roughly Takes to Close a Deal in SaaS. Top Podcasts This Week: 1.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2023

They’re at almost $500m in ARR, with 1,850 customers, now growing a modest but steady 19% and they have gotten pretty efficient, like most other public SaaS and Cloud leaders. nCino has flipped the switch like many other public SaaS and Cloud companies and gotten to positive operating margins (and cash flow) in just 1 year.

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Blulogix

APRIL 9, 2024

By BluLogix Team Mastering the Art of Complex B2B Recurring and Subscription Billing: Integration and Automation: Scaling Your Business Efficiently In subscription-based business models, particularly those operating within the digital space, managing digital inventory emerges as a critical yet complex task.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 8, 2023

A Simple Guide To Being in the Top 25% of Sales Professionals Dear SaaStr: What Does A Salesperson Need To Do To “Earn Your Business”? SaaStr 690: From $5M to $100M: How to Scale a Multi-Product Startup with Lattice CEO Jack Altman   2. How AI is Changing the Way We Work with OpenAI’s Head of Sales 5.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2019

Rick started Guru in 2013, after successfully founding Boomi (a cloud integration and data management company) and selling it to Dell. He joined me for a conversation on tackling issues that come up as you scale your customer experience. When scaling your customer experience, remember AI can’t simulate human empathy.

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SaaStr

MARCH 21, 2021

“3 Reasons You Need Support Ops to Scale and How to Really Build It with Stripe and Assembled” Assembled brought this session together for SaaStr Build 2021 with the Head of Support Ops at Stripe. “The State of the Cloud: 2021 with Bessemer Venture Partners” Missed the 5th annual edition of State of the Cloud?

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SaaStr

APRIL 27, 2023

So whether you’re starting out, building your startup, or scaling up to meet the needs of consumers, business, and society, we connect you with the right people, products, and best practices to help you thrive and grow. QuotaPath is the most adaptable compensation solution to bring Sales, RevOps, and Finance all on the same page.

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Clouded Judgement

JANUARY 19, 2024

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Subscribe now The Bar For Going Public There’s a lot of talk recently about “are IPO markets open” or “what scale do I need to get public.” Subscribe now Share Clouded Judgement Leave a comment

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Clouded Judgement

APRIL 5, 2024

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. They’ve shown they can hit escape velocity, at scale, with profitability. My point of this post is simply to point out some of the challenges that arise from a hype round at an “at scale” valuation. Top 5 Median: 17.4x

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Clouded Judgement

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. After the cloud giants reported this week, the timing of the presumed re-acceleration is very much in question. Staggering scale already. At the same time - Google Cloud also massively decelerated from 28% last quarter to 22% this quarter.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 27, 2023

So is it possible to be too efficient in SaaS and Cloud? Or at least, maybe like many, tougher times meant holding the line on costs and people, leading to even more efficiency. But at scale, even the slightly less long version of the tail is where the money is. And if so, maybe that’s Digital Ocean. Churn Stable.

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Clouded Judgement

MARCH 22, 2024

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. This brings me to AI (everything leads to AI these days…). But this is changing - many categories are becoming commoditized leading to massive pricing pressure. Follow along to stay up to date! Buyers are also experimenting on vendors.

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