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 208

Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE Scale SMB 208

SaaStr

JULY 12, 2022

You have to create a repeatable process if you’re going to scale up the sales team. At $10 million in revenue, when you hit initial scale, there’s somewhere for them in the business, whether you’re VC backed, a lot of VC back, a little VC, whether you’re self?funded, They know how to scale.

Sales Hiring 251

Sales Hiring Part-Time VPE VP of Engineering Sales Recruiting 251

SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

Hire the VP of Marketing, MBA, the VP of Sales, MBA, the VP of Customer, MBA, the VP of Engineering, MBA, and now, the odds of any semblance of survival, let alone success, are vanishingly small at this point. The issue the SMBs had was, “Well, I’m a 20-person consulting company.

Part-Time VPE 212

Part-Time VPE Technical Cofounder CTO Hire New CTO 212

SaaStr

JULY 30, 2020

How does this differ between SMB and enterprise? Like a VP of engineering would go to some conference, and hear someone on stage talking about how they need to be spending all their time doing recruiting, etc, etc. Either A, you get good at low scale, talking with and engaging these prospects. That sounds good.

Part-Time VPE 194

Part-Time VPE Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 194