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Hyperscaling Post-IPO with PagerDuty’s CEO, Jennifer Tejada (Podcast #485)

SaaStr

For example, Pagey, our mascot, ended up videobombing me during an interview with CNBC. From then on, Pagey became a meme as a part of our IPO—he even had a Fortune article written about him and has an entire public reputation to manage. Manage employee sentiment throughout your growth. Or will those changes get in your way?

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I Asked 50+ Developers How They Buy Software. Here’s What I Learned.

OpenView Labs

That’s why I interviewed more than 50 developers in DevOps, DevSecOps, and generalist back-end roles about how they prefer to discover, try, and purchase software. But for prospects who are too busy to hop on a call, it definitely doesn’t hurt to have self-service options for both sales and support.

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SaaStr Podcast #225: Stephen Burton, VP of Smarketing at Harness Discusses How To Create True Alignment Between Marketing and Sales

SaaStr

Stephen Burton is VP of Smarketing at Harness, the industry’s first continuous delivery as a service platform. Prior to Harness, Stephen was VP of Marketing at Glassdoor, managing a team of 52 in product marketing, helping grow B2B revenue from $19m to $90m in just 2 years, leading to their $1.2Bn acquisition. billion acquisition.

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Forrester Research Publishes Best Practices Report on SaaS Operations

BetterCloud

Last week Forrester Research published its market research report titled “Best Practices For Software-As-A-Service Operations.” In this report, Forrester interviewed IT leaders from some of the world’s largest companies to understand the current best practices for mastering SaaS operations. The biggest issue for IT managers?

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Cognota’s Ryan Austin on Creating an Entire Category (LearnOps)

FastSpring

“It got us thinking: Why is there no purpose-built operating system for corporate learning and development teams, when their jobs are so strategic to the business, and they’re managing massive budgets, but they can’t track things like ROI?” Stream the full interview below or find it wherever you listen to podcasts.

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How to Find Product-Market-Sales Fit

Andreessen Horowitz

What does this mean for product design and product management? When should companies offer services? And the theme of this episode is for founders and product managers to consider the tight relationship between product and go-to-market, one informing the other in both directions. Welcome to the “a16z Podcast.” Satish: Yeah.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with PagerDuty and Gusto — April 17, 2020

SaaStr

Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Carolyn. But as time went on, I could really see the level of innovation that was coming out of Silicon Valley, in particular, but SaaS companies more broadly, so managed to find my way to the West Coast of the U.S. So more than ever, companies need our services.

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