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 216

Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE Scale SMB 216

SaaStr

JULY 12, 2022

One of the first what How to Hire a Great VP of Sales at the New York Enterprise Tech Meet-Up (thank you to John Lehr and Work-Bench for setting this up). The Number One Thing You Can Do to Accelerate Your Business Post-Initial Traction is Hiring a Great VP of Sales. I don’t know anything about sales.

Sales Hiring 257

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

SaaStr

OCTOBER 17, 2019

When it comes to seamlessly scaling your applications, a top-notch engineering team will be your foundation. Julian Lemoine, Co-Founder, and CTO of Algolia will share his lessons learned on how to stay focused and innovative as you scale while also avoiding the innovation for innovation’s sake pitfalls. Of course, not at scale.

Scale 122

Scale Scaling CTO Hire Part-Time VPE 122

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.

Part-Time VPE 196

Part-Time VPE Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 196

Sales Hacker

JULY 8, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Kim Rose , VP of Customer Success at Buildium. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Welcome to the Sales Hacker Podcast. She’s the VP of Customer Success and Support at Buildium. Conga is the leading end-to-end digital document transformation suite.

Customer Success 58

Customer Success Scale Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE 58

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

JUNE 1, 2021

This is the revenue growth for HubSpot leading up to the IPO. One is, lots of folks that have been through the startup cycle, you have this extrapolation from a single data point problem, which is, “OK, we have this story. The issue the SMBs had was, “Well, I’m a 20-person consulting company.

Part-Time VPE 220

Part-Time VPE Technical Cofounder CTO Hire New CTO 220