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How to Prepare Yourself to Be a Great CEO

SaaStr

But they are often just awful managers. Manage People. This is one of the best things you can do, because 50% of the job of a CEO is recruiting a team, leading a team, empowering a team, convincing a team. Manage anyone you can, even if it’s not perfect. note: updated in 2019 from original post).

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7 Marketing Hot Takes with SaaStr Founder and CEO Jason Lemkin on the Exit Five Podcast 

SaaStr

1: How Sales and Marketing Have Shifted Since 2020 Expectations and the types of people working in SaaS have shifted over the past few years, and much more in sales, marketing, and customer success. . #1: But tech got so big in the run-up to 2019, and beyond that, they’re just job workers, not pirates and romantics. #2:

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Beyond $1B ARR: Lessons from Zendesk on Why the Cloud is Unstoppable (Video + Transcript)

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We guided towards $800,000,000 for 2019. Mikkel : Well again, the public cloud, AWS, was the dominant leader. We are seeing platform shifts from how they traditionally run their infrastructure and services and business to seeing them run that stuff on AWS. We ended just shy of $600 million dollar in revenue for the year.

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The SaaS Trust Crisis with Godard Abel (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

It’s 2020 and SaaS buyers are more skeptical and suspicious, more disbelieving, more unconvinced than they were in 2019. And G2 Gives, we partner with philanthropies, we partner with some of our customers like AWS and Google Cloud, who can then make donations for every review, to thank their customers. The situation is getting worse.

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The Answers to Scaling, Hiring, and Everything Else: A SaaStr Europa AMA with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin (Pod 585 + Video)

SaaStr

As SaaStr Europa 2022 drew to a close, attendees took one more opportunity to ask Jason questions about topics like how to navigate the current market, the future of work, playing in a crowded space, and hiring your first VP of Sales. It was funny for Henry to say he segmented his sales team at 80 million in ARR. Transcript.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Byron Deeter, Elliott Robinson, Henry Schuck, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

If you look back on February 5th, 2019, which was the SaaStr Annual, hopefully many of you were there in person, we gave the state of the cloud presentation and talked about the power of the industry, and the power that’s been building in terms of market capitalization of just the public cloud companies and what they show.

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Q&A with Maria Pergolino, Anthony Kennada, Aaron Ross and Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And so, she can, and Anthony just finished up basically going from the first sales hire at Gainsight at almost 100 million in revenue and has just retired. Maria : It’s like saying, “Hey, you want a sales rep to carry 10 times the quota they do today. You can’t, you have to invest in that sales infrastructure.”