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

Sales Hacker

JULY 8, 2019

Kim herself is an incredible executive, and she walks through both professional lessons about how to scale a customer success organization, but also life lessons about how to reenter the workforce. She has more than 15 years experience building and scaling customer focused organizations at SaaS companies. 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. You have to create a repeatable process if you’re going to scale up the sales team. If you’ve hired the VP of Engineering, impossible hire, but when they love something, they jump.

Sales Hiring 258

Sales Hiring Part-Time VPE VP of Engineering Sales Recruiting 258

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 124

Scale Scaling CTO Hire Part-Time VPE 124

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. Pete is also the author of Founding Sales, the canonical writing on early-stage startup sales. Pete is also the author of Founding Sales, the canonical writing on early-stage startup sales.

Part-Time VPE 198

Part-Time VPE Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 198

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 132

Engineering Part-Time VPE Technical Review Fractional VPE 132

SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

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. Another piece of very, very good startup advice that I’ve given myself a hundred times is the “Do one thing exceptionally well.” This is what we did.

Part-Time VPE 220

Part-Time VPE Technical Cofounder CTO Hire New CTO 220