SaaStr

MARCH 6, 2024

Founder CEO Todd McKinnon was VP of Engineering at Salesforce and left to start Okta in the depths of the last downturn. Salesforce and Marc Benioff at first said the core market, security identity, was too small of a market. Their multi-million dollar contracts are 30%. #5. The story is super inspiring.

Fractional VPE 213

Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE Scale SMB 213

SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

I’m going to skip by my life story, and how I grew up as a small child in India, and how the dusty streets influenced my take on unit economics, and SaaS subscription models. We’re going to do search tools, a content management system, and social media, all of it, on the top of the funnel.” I just can’t do that.”

Part-Time VPE 216

Part-Time VPE Technical Cofounder CTO Hire New CTO 216

Outseta

MAY 8, 2020

I can assure you that most people in the tech industry spend countless hours thinking about how to make this happen, investing only a fractional percentage of time thinking about their impact. Hopefully jack up your growth rate enough to be acquired for a massive sum of money.

Part-Time VPE 102

Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 102