SaaStr

MAY 20, 2020

Our recent SaaStr Summit: Bridging the Gap was the first time I’ve had a chance to be a participant at a SaaStr event in a long, long time. He joined StubHub as CTO, but didn’t get nearly as much equity as the other CTO — because he “wasn’t committed enough.” I learned a lot! ??

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SaaStr

JULY 14, 2022

The SaaStr Annual is the largest non-vendor event in the industry, with 10,000+ attendees from all across the world coming together each year in the SF Bay Area. We also launched an affiliated $90m venture fund and had our inaugural SaaStr Europa event in Paris of 2018. We were the first major SaaS event back in the SF Bay Area.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Some leaders like Slack have seen the same, but most Cloud leaders at scale with high NRR end up getting more and more of their revenue from their existing base, not new customers. Use overages to renegotiate contracts, not charge per event. Rather, it uses overage events to trigger a call from sales to buy more. #4.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 28, 2024

On Monday, at TC Disrupt Colin Zima CEO of Omni , Jordan Tigani CEO of Motherduck , Daniel Svnova CEO of Superlinked & Toby Mao CTO of Tobiko Data who are leading the evolution of the Post Modern Data Stack discussed the trends they are seeing. Customers are excited about new architectures that significantly reduce cost.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

days of tactical content, networking, and epic evening events when the Cloud comes to Singapore. The goal is to help each other learn something new, find mentorships, create partnerships, and exchange strategies. 1,000 SaaS CEOs, Founders, Revenue Leaders, and VCs will join us for 1.5

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2020

Juggling People, Processes & Priorities: CTO Leadership Lessons from the Front Lines. Tarik Faouzi. Rose Nuñez. Channel Management. IBM. [link]. 9:00 – 9:50AM. Marianna Tessel. Intuit. [link] . 9:00 – 9:20AM. How to Design and Build a SaaS Platform Pressure Tested for the Enterprise. Catherine Wong. 11:00 – 11:50AM.

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SaaStr

MARCH 7, 2021

It’s hard to hire 20 extra sales reps (which you need as you look at $10m ARR), open an extra European office, spend on big campaigns and events … when you are worried more than $1m will put you at risk. 5/ Moving from CTO-led -> VPE-led dev team. This is pretty well understood today, but was fairly new to me.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Though our second day of the event is focused on mythical creatures of all kinds, you’ll find that there are unicorns hiding in our agenda every day this year. Well, we did the heavy lifting and highlighted a few here for you… Marianna Tessel, Intuit CTO + Cathy Polinsky, Stitch Fix CTO + Robin Ducot, Survey Monkey CTO.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 12, 2022

. “That it was much easier to do more in order to keep that customer than to get a new “top” customer. We all know this, but we forget about it, especially when the Hot New Deal and the sales team’s wants and needs consumes all of management’s resources. ” — Ankit Sindhi, Founder, Spurt.

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Neil Patel

JUNE 17, 2025

I’ve seen countless businesses transform their growth by attracting loyal buyers instead of constantly chasing new shoppers. Take the X post by Cloudflare CTO Dane Knecht below for example. Plus, the cost to acquire new customers keeps rising. Give them invitations to exclusive events or access to VIP sales.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Black Swan events. And the best one of all, if you didn’t see it, we did it at one of our digital events this year was Spencer Skates, CEO of Amplitude, one of my favorite SaaS CEOs. Jason Lemkin: I think I noticed a pattern, and I wrote it up a couple of years ago and refreshed it, and then I’ll add a new anecdote.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Since 2010 we’ve seen more startups, funds, and capital than ever before, but with this drastic increase, investors are seeing unexpected new trends reshaping the future of the industry. The panel that we are in is called Is Seed the New Series A, and this is a question that I’ve been asking informally yesterday and today.

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Buffer Resources

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

a recent press release, an event or webinar registration page, etc.).  Tagging your partner organizations, influencers, or thought leaders at your company (your CEO, CTO, etc.) If I left each day to find something new to publish on social, I would have struggled to keep up and certainly would have missed some days. 

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SaaStock

MARCH 8, 2019

After five years at Ernst & Young in New York, she served as Vice President at Citigroup in the Big Apple. Kathleen Ting studied at Cornell University before joining the financial service provider BlackRock in New York as Global Consulting Relations Analyst. Jessie Lam. Kathleen Ting. Pocket Sun is certainly a name to remember.

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SaaStr

MAY 8, 2019

Every week we’ll be rolling out new winners until we get to the very pinnacle of our list. Jeff Lawson began his career as Founder, CEO and CTO of Versity.com, a venture he embarked on part way through his time at the University of Michigan. Keep your eyes peeled as we unveil the list and a bit more about your favorite leaders.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 27, 2018

It can also be a great learning and growth opportunity – after all, outages and errors can be complex events to understand and remediate. Back in the early days of Intercom, our CTO Ciaran was the entirety of the on call team, both in and out of the office. The history of on call at Intercom. Finding the right on call process.

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

Co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah shared with us how they got there — and the top mistakes they made — just 3 quarters after their IPO. We have someone that probably 98 percent of you know virtually or socially in some sense, Dharmesh Shah, founder and CTO of HubSpot. But of course, it wasn’t always quite that big!

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The Angel VC

OCTOBER 3, 2015

After the meetup, many of the attendees told us that they've never attended an event which was nearly as useful as this one, and everyone left the meetup energized and eager to implement all the new learnings. By now it has become a tradition, and last week the 4th annual PNC SaaS Founder Meetup took place in Berlin.

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Scytale

MARCH 12, 2025

His entrepreneurial journey began with Fever Events, a student events business he co-founded and later sold after hosting over 300 events. a next-generation AI-driven autonomous driving system that adapts to new environments through data-driven learning.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

What sets apart some of the most successful, high-growth companies we see today—Slack, Dropbox, Atlassian—has been their ability to tap into and master a new GTM strategy: B2C2B. We saw inside the company this tension between our classroom business and this new B2C digital business, and we knew we had to make a decision.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Though our second day of the event is focused on mythical creatures of all kinds, you’ll find that there are unicorns hiding in our agenda every day this year. Deep Dive Session: “The New Key Hire: Chief of Staff” with LaunchDarkly Chief of Staff Delores Brown. The Unicorns ??. Check it out below!

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SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2019

I spend a lot of time going to events. One of the great benefits of some of the investors that we’ve raised from is that we get invited to a lot of great networking events here. The catch was he had just moved his family four kids to New York city. We had no New York city presence. It’s a positive thing.

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Kellblog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

They never have any new ideas about how to fix our problems.” And maybe even what new products we should build.” But what happens Monday morning, when everyone sees the company-wide message announcing the new initiative? Did anybody notice that the acronym for the new, save-the-company initiative is LOST?

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 22, 2020

With this new investment, we are already increasing our pace of innovation and have a very exciting roadmap of things to come over the next 12 months. We found many new ways to stay connected and have some fun, and it was inspiring to see how well morale has held up in light of the circumstances.

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

Is it a particular event that triggers it? As you said, people take it hard if suddenly you say, “Hey, this is your new EVP. If I wasn’t at the programming background, probably a CTO was a good idea, but for us it was sales, definitely sales and marketing. However you want to call it. Is it a time? That’s it.”

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Frontegg

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Aviad Mizrachi, co-founder and CTO at Frontegg and Dotan Horovits, Technology Evangelist at Logz.io, converged to discuss the crucial SaaS Observability aspect. Every new feature is like a mini-release for companies. There are new KPIs and new dashboards for each and every feature. What are these all about?

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 13, 2019

I hope that by the end you have some new ways of thinking about what tools you use yourself, and some of the pitfalls that you might not be aware of. It highlighted all kinds of tools and techniques that would be useful in building a new type of self-sufficient lifestyle. To start, let’s ask: what is a tool? Developing a career plan.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

No, the amazing innovation of the iPhone was simply to bring a new generation of user interface to market with the touchscreen – and to really enable a different interaction that people have with the computing devices. The same thing is true with calendar events distributed over email. Tim: There’s always a fear of change.

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Teamgate

JUNE 11, 2025

Additionally, it supports third-party analytics tools such as Datadog, Splunk , and New Relic Insights, enabling a comprehensive and unified monitoring process. Sarah Kim, CTO at GrowthCraft, highlighted the cost efficiency: “As our system grew to hundreds of services, our previous monitoring solution became prohibitively expensive.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

If you have the CEO, CTO, some executive chat through, here’s the big picture of the company. Why are you looking for a new job? Let’s find a new shirt. So what events do you go to? Lizzie Mintus (07:58) Yes. Yeah, it happens all the time because the small company cares about you, David, as a person.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 17, 2024

Beyond education, Carlos is the author of The Product Book and the guy behind multiple industry events and initiatives. He also organizes ProductCon, a conference that takes place in San Francisco, New York, and London and attracts thousands of product professionals every year. Why do digital transformations fail? Did you know?

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Sales Hacker

MAY 5, 2021

Whether they started out as SDRs, marketers, engineers or even lawyers, their winding paths ultimately brought them to RevOps where they can solve new and challenging problems. In fact, she says that you will probably be thrown new software tools every three months in a RevOps job. 36 RevOps Leaders You Need to Follow.

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Point Nine Land

MAY 19, 2023

My conclusion was that Generative AI is an asteroid impact event for B2B software, comparable to the launch of the iPhone or the Internet itself. But unlike most on-premise software companies in the 2000s, the SaaS leaders of today aren’t doomed. In other areas, earlier AI movers may see the value of their tech erode.

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SaaStr

JUNE 26, 2024

Growth is still good for them, but they had no net new customers last quarter. HubSpots NRR has fallen to 100%, so to grow 23%, they must add 23% net new customers. Are brand-new companies that seem epic with no revenue really worth $1.5B Maybe if you have the ex-CTO of Github, but that’s still a super speculative bet.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

And then, in the 50s, they introduced this new thing, and there was resistance. Evernote’s CTO on Your Biggest Security Worries From 3 to 300 Employees. Liam: The whole area is a new space. Adam: The space itself is new, but it’s one that’s been hypothesized for some time. New year, new job.

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SaaStock

MARCH 29, 2019

Don’t overextend your resources when testing new SaaS growth ideas. Here is what he writes: Kieran Flanagan , VP of marketing at HubSpot, shared some interesting insights on approaching new ideas for scaling up your business. In his own words: Notion Capital organised an excellent panel event focusing on hiring.

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Frontegg

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

We have shortlisted the top full-stack developer events you should consider attending to learn about the latest trends, engage with influencers, and improve your networking. LeadDev New York March 14-15, New York Tickets: Basic LeadDev Pass – $1499 LeadDev is almost here. workshops, and even a hackathon.

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