Jyoti Bansal and The AppDynamics Story: From Idea to $3.7B (Video + Transcript)
Jyoti Bansal, Founder & Chairman of AppDynamics joined Jason Lemkin on stage at SaaStr Annual 2017 to give us the inside scoop on his 11th-hour decision to sell to Cisco rather than going public — and the path he took to get IPO-ready. Jason opened the ‘17 Annual with an acknowledgment of the global nature […]
Josh Stein, Partner @ DFJ: What Makes a Great SaaS CEO (Video + Transcript)
As a partner at Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Josh Stein has invested in some of the most well-known SaaS companies in the world like Box and Yammer and spent plenty of time with truly remarkable SaaS CEOs. In this session he and Jason Lemkin sit down and dive into what really makes a great CEO, and how that […]
Dharmesh Shah of Hubspot: From Day 0 to IPO. What Went to Plan. What Most Certainly Didn’t (Video + Transcript)
In anticipation of the upcoming SaaStr Annual 2017, we’ll be releasing the full series of transcripts and videos from all the awesome 2016 sessions. There are rules in starting an enterprise software company. You will fail if you: 1) try to build a suite of products out of the gate, 2) focus solely on SMBs, or 3) […]
Cornerstone OnDemand’s Kirsten Helvey: Scaling from 30-1,500 in SaaS: Lessons From the Frontlines (Video + Transcript)
In anticipation of the upcoming SaaStr Annual 2017, we’ll be releasing the full series of transcripts and videos from all the awesome 2016 sessions. In this session, Jason Lemkin receives some valuable insight from Kirsten Helvey, COO of Cornerstone OnDemand, a cloud-based learning and talent management solutions provider. Drawing from her 11 years of experience […]
Marketo: Winning, IPOing, and Going Upmarket (Video + Transcript)
In anticipation of the upcoming SaaStr Annual 2017, we’ll be releasing the full series of transcripts and videos from all the awesome 2016 sessions. We were super excited to have Phil Fernandez, CEO and co-founder of Marketo, sit down and talk to us about the triumphs (and struggles) leading Marketo from inception to IPO. Phil […]
CXO Talk: Growing a SaaS business, with Zach Nelson, CEO, NetSuite
Our good friend Michael Krigsman, who runs the excellent blog and interview platform CXO Talk, did me a huge favor at the ’16 Annual and interviewed Zach Nelson, CEO of NetSuite. The interview and part of the transcript is below. I’m going to make you click over to Michael’s blog for the full transcript but […]
Nick Mehta (Gainsight), Mark Organ (Influitive) Kris Duggan (Betterworks): The Second Timers
We’re publishing the full series of transcripts and videos from all of the epic SaaStr Annual 2015 sessions (check out the Partnering with the Big Guys, Hyperscaling Inside Sales with Zenefits, the inside scoop on Why Sh*t Gets Funded, and the unicorn journeys of Slack and Yammer posts if you missed them). This week Aaron Ross, author of Predictable Revenue, […]
Mamoon Hamid of Social+Capital: Why Sh*t Really Gets Funded (Video + transcript)
We’re publishing the full series of both the videos and transcripts from all of the SaaStr Annual 2015 sessions (check out the Zenefits and Slack/Yammer posts if you missed them). Today we’ve got Mamoon Hamid, Co-founder and General Partner at Social+Capital, an early stage Venture Capital firm that funds breakthrough healthcare, education, financial services, mobile, and enterprise software companies. Mamoon has […]
Zenefits: How We Hyperscaled Inside Sales
In a candid interview at SaaStr Annual 2015, Parker Conrad, CEO of Zenefits, and VP of Sales Sam Blond share their journey that started with a simple “What if…?” and how that led to an audacious goal: deciding mid-year to double their sales plan from $10M to $20M. They reveal the growth challenges of hyperscaling from 1 to 100 […]
David Sacks (Yammer) Stewart Butterfield (Slack): Unicorns or Bust
Missed the 2015 SaaStr Annual? We’ve got you covered! We’re publishing the full series of both the videos and transcripts from all of the 2015 sessions. Today we’ve got David Sacks, Co-founder of PayPal and Yammer, now COO at Zenefits, and Stewart Butterfield, President/Co-founder of Slack, where we had a wide-ranging, 40 minute discussion on […]
