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. Seat Contractions Have Brought NRR Down From 120% to 111% While 111% NRR is still quite an engine at this scale, the drop in NRR from seat contractions explains a good chunk of the headwinds Okta has seen. #2.

Fractional VPE 215

Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE Scale SMB 215

SaaStr

JULY 5, 2019

For me, it took a while to build up the experiences and confidence to get there: First, I worked with enough startups and CEOs to “get it”. I had a chance as a startup lawyer working in “Silicon Valley” to work with 20+ startups. Second, I joined the best startup that would have me, as a Director and then Senior Director.

Part-Time VPE 155

Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE CTO Hire Sales Recruiting 155

Sales Hacker

JULY 8, 2019

With Conga, you can simplify documents, automate contracts, and execute e-signatures so you can focus on accelerating sales cycles and closing business faster. Kim Rose: Buildium is a build-a-product for a third party property manager. That’s really key for anybody in a startup, as well. It’s a fantastic show.

Customer Success 58

Customer Success Scale Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE 58

SaaStr

JULY 12, 2022

If you look at any SaaS startup, in the first couple reps, they always find one guy or gal that’s just amazing, just killing it. This is the number one job of VP of Sales — recruiting a great team. What I’m sure you’ve seen if you manage any reps is the performance is divergent. filling that team.

Sales Hiring 257

Sales Hiring Part-Time VPE VP of Engineering Sales Recruiting 257

SaaStr

JULY 30, 2020

356: Pete Kazanjy is the Co-Founder @ Atrium, the startup providing proactive, always-on insights for sales operations, managers, and leaders. Alongside Atrium, Pete is also the Founder of Modern Sales Pros, a community of 15,000 focused on sales operations and sales management. Stop asking questions. Start getting answers.

Part-Time VPE 196

Part-Time VPE Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 196

SaaStr

JULY 30, 2019

Scott Beechuk, Partner at Norwest Venture Partners, brings together world-class SaaS engineering leaders Claire Hough, Vijay Gill and Weiping Peng for a dynamic conversation on where SaaS technology is headed, how to build top performing engineering teams and what it takes to lead in today’s high-velocity engineering environment.

Engineering 130

Engineering Part-Time VPE Technical Review Fractional VPE 130

SaaStr

OCTOBER 17, 2019

The engineering team was super, super small at this moment. We were in total four engineers working on the product, including me, including our VP of Engineering, so four in total. Of course, they were a Wikipedia page listing like all the managed DNS available on the market. So very, very small team.

Scale 122

Scale Scaling CTO Hire Part-Time VPE 122