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Snowflake, CrowdStike and SumoLogic: “How to Leverage the Cloud Giants to Scale to 100 Million ARR and Beyond”

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Jessica Alexander, Senior Director Cloud Technology & OEM Partnerships, Crowdstrike. This episode is an excerpt from a session at SaaStr Scale. What you’ll see in that cloud spend box is actually Gartner’s 2020 estimate for infrastructure as a service spending for companies, which was $50 billion. Colleen Kapase.

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What Order Should You Hire Your Management Team In?

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ARR VPCS: $2m ARR VPP: $3m-$4m ARR VPE: $5m-$6m ARR CFO: $10m ARR COO: $20m ARR. And your first VP of Marketing just increases qualified leads by 25%. More on that here and a great video discussion below: You’ll probably be ready for your first VP of Sales by $1m in ARR. But you’ll need a manager to scale beyond 2.

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Bet On Up-and-Comers. But Add One Veteran For Each $10m ARR.

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And that means your initial leadership team often takes you faster, and further, than you might ever think. Often folks they convince to once again be a VP of Eng or VP of Sales. And if you are, you are going to naturally start off hiring up-and-comers to your first leadership team. Then, they can scale almost infinitely.