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The Key to Enterprise Sales Is Understanding Enterprises

Andreessen Horowitz

Unqork founder and CEO Gary Hoberman took an unusual path to entrepreneurship, spending decades writing code and managing massive budgets on Wall Street (his prior role was executive vice president and global CIO for MetLife) before starting his own company. By his estimation, it was the best thing he could have done to set him.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Domo at $320,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

So Domo is an interesting case study on SaaS entrepreneurship. After a less-than-fun time being acquired, he came back and founded a next-generation enterprise analytics company, Domo. After a less-than-fun time being acquired, he came back and founded a next-generation enterprise analytics company, Domo. But GRR isn’t.

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3 Incredible SaaStr Sessions with Stewart Butterfield, Co-Founder of Slack. And The End of One Era in SaaS.

SaaStr

Slack was much bigger, and more B2B by this point, with a large enterprise sales team, and Stewart was in a much more contemplative mode: Then … Covid and lockdown hit in 2020. And if the winds at some point blow you back into entrepreneurship, in one form or another. Everyone was really struggling those first few weeks.

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A Discussion of My 2024 Predictions on the AI and The Future of Work Podcast

Kellblog

Great guests and great discussions about AI, ethics, technology, and entrepreneurship.” Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and how its two key abilities (sourcing plus augmenting) help make generative AI much more appropriate for the enterprise.

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How to Scale a Platform and Ecosystem to $10B with Atlassian CRO Cameron Deatsch (Pod 611 + Video)

SaaStr

Scaling to satisfy customers’ demands depends on innovation and foresight combined with enterprise-ready technology and the right partners. The main driver behind this success is that from day one, Atlassian took a product-led self-service approach to enterprise software. Understand when to partner and compete.

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Increasing Net Dollar Retention to Build a Compelling Enterprise SaaS Play

Chart Mogul

Adam, Sandeep, and team are committed to addressing those challenges by acquiring relevant software businesses and building out a true enterprise-ready platform. If you’re an enterprise SaaS business, you need ~100% net retention or something is wrong.

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Increasing Net Dollar Retention to Build a Compelling Enterprise SaaS Play

Chart Mogul

Adam, Sandeep, and team are committed to addressing those challenges by acquiring relevant software businesses and building out a true enterprise-ready platform. If you’re an enterprise SaaS business, you need ~100% net retention or something is wrong.