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How to Train Your Sales Leaders: Key Learnings from HubSpot and BILL with Michelle Benfer

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Former Head of Revenue at BILL and HubSpot Americas leader Michelle Benfer recently joined us on a SaaStr Workshop Wednesday share her insights on one of the most critical roles in any SaaS organization: the frontline sales manager. “Some teams consistently sold more enterprise SKUs, others had high volume but low ACV. .

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How SaaStr Fund-Backed RevenueCat Went from a $1.5M Round at $7M Valuation in 2018 to $500M+ Today

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And more importantly, revenue and user growth that is accelerating at scale. They were two developers who had lived through the nightmare of subscription infrastructure while working at Elevate. The Problem Was Real: Apple and Google’s app stores weren’t giving developers the data they needed.

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AI, Sales + GTM in 2025/2026: This Changes Everything with Jason Lemkin and Owner CRO Kyle Norton

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The AI-Native CRO: How Revenue Leaders Must Evolve or Risk Obsolescence 4 Top Learnings for Revenue Leaders 1. By the end of this quarter, team members who aren’t genuinely AI-curious should be let go. The 50/50 Team Is Coming Fast. CROs will need to manage teams that are 50% AI agents and 50% human by end of year.

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The Future of AI in SaaS Sales with Henry Schuck, CEO of ZoomInfo and SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin

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On the topic of building SaaS companies, Henry kicks off the conversation with: “I think a lot of bootstrapped founders who are less capital infused have to actually be great at developing their people. I bootstrapped ZoomInfo to 25 million in revenue. You need to be evaluating your team 100 percent of the time.

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The Early Days: How Veeva Hit $100m ARR With Just $3m Raised — And a Deep Vertical Focus

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Veeva is the dominant cloud software provider for life sciences – serving pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device companies with mission-critical applications for drug development, clinical trials, regulatory compliance, and commercial operations. revenue growth year-over-year 2013 IPO : $129.5M Don’t get discouraged.”

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SaaStr on 20VC This Week: Why 40% Cloud Adoption Marks the End of Easy Growth. And Why the AI Budget War is Just Getting Started

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AI is Eating SaaS Budgets : Companies like Cursor are generating massive revenue by replacing traditional SaaS workflows entirely. Companies like Cursor are generating massive revenue by directly replacing traditional B2B and SaaS workflows. Weak players get acquired or shut down. What This Means for B2B Leaders 1.

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The Keys to Getting to $500M ARR In Just 7 Years with Attentive’s CEO

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Here’s what it really took for Attentive to go from $0 to $500M ARR in just 7 years, sending over 32B text messages and generating $20B+ in revenue for their 8,000+ customers. CEO Amit Jhawar joined us at SaaStr Annual for a deep dive: 1. Solve The Hard Problem First And Patent It The first key insight? Black Friday playbook) 3.