article thumbnail

A Look Back: Slack at $30,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

Jason : Stewart, picking up on that, I didn’t become a Slack groupie until about three months ago when I was building some product for SaaStr, and then I got it, when I actually had to build software. I don’t think that Yammer had that same software developer core that could get accelerated. We’re groupies.

Scale 345
article thumbnail

60 of The Top Mentors at 2020 SaaStr Annual

SaaStr

Sari Harrison, Center for Humane Technology , Head of Product Outcomes. Sameera Rao, PayPal, Global Head of Consumer Engineering. Nitasha Walia, Zoom, Group Product Manager. Product Marketing Manager. Michelle Burrows, Procare Software , CMO. Sahil Sharma, Software Engineer – Samsung.

CTO Coach 207
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

11 Best Growth Marketing Software for SaaS

User Pilot

According to Ryan Holiday , author of Growth Hacker Marketing, being a growth marketer is about “throwing out the playbook of traditional marketing and replacing it with only what is testable, trackable, and scalable.”. But doesn’t it come with an increased need for coding or technical knowledge for marketers?

article thumbnail

The SaaS Org Chart Live with David Sacks (Podcast #491 and Video)

SaaStr

David’s first foray into SaaS was in 1999 when he joined a startup that would become PayPal, starting as the product leader and later as the COO. In 2008, he founded Yammer, an enterprise software company that David grew to 500 employees and $60 million in sales. Head of Marketing. Microsoft acquired Yammer for $1.2

CTO Hire 245
article thumbnail

The Cadence: How to Turn Your SaaS Startup into an Army with David Sacks (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

First, I was the founder or CEO of PayPal during the PayPal Mafia period, and I was a self-taught product person, I learned how to do product management operations there. Salesforce is the most successful cloud software company, and so it’s worth I think learning from the things that they’ve done.

Startup 274
article thumbnail

What is a Segmentation Survey? Questions, Examples & Use Cases

User Pilot

This kind of segmentation helps SaaS companies customize their messaging and product development to suit the characteristics of different user groups in their target market. To ensure that marketing efforts are appropriately targeted. Do you use our product differently during certain seasons or weather conditions?

article thumbnail

SaaStr Podcast #349 with Craft Ventures General Partner David Sacks: “How to Turn Your SaaS Startup into an Army”

SaaStr

David Sacks (Yammer, PayPal) shares how to navigate from 50-500 employees. First, I was the founding era CEO of PayPal during the PayPal Mafia period, and I was a self taught product person, I learned how to do product management operations there. And, the second system is what I call the product marketing system.