SaaStr

APRIL 14, 2025

With a New, AI Demo Stage from 100+ Top AI Start-Ups! It’s 50% about the intersection of AI + B2B, 50% about GTM in 2025+, and … 50% about helping you meet the best of the best! It’s May 13-15 in SF Bay, again on our 40+ acre indoor-outdoor campus ! The SaaStr.AI Summit Is Back and Bigger.

VP of Engineering 204

VP of Engineering CTO Coach VPCs (Virtual Private Cloud) Scale 204

Hitenism

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

In 2006, after Amazon Web Services (AWS) helped pioneer what we now call the cloud, product development changed forever. Today, one-third of daily internet users visit websites built on top of AWS. AWS is now an $11.5B run rate business and has made up for an incredible 67% of Amazon’s operating revenue last quarter.

AWS 189

AWS New CTO Scale CTO 189

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Until now, Intercom has been a multitenant application hosted in a single region in AWS. We identified some “ known unknowns” too; problems we needed to solve, but didn’t know how just yet – like integrating the new region into our billing system. And so our former CTO and co-founder Ciaran Lee decided we were just going to start.

Scale 234

Scale New CTO Engineering CTO 234

SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

Co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah shared with us how they got there — and the top mistakes they made — just 3 quarters after their IPO. We have someone that probably 98 percent of you know virtually or socially in some sense, Dharmesh Shah, founder and CTO of HubSpot. But of course, it wasn’t always quite that big!

Part-Time VPE 297

Part-Time VPE Technical Cofounder CTO Hire New CTO 297

SaaStr

JUNE 26, 2024

Many people are doing great, even private companies like Netskope, which are growing over 30% at $500M in revenue. Canva is growing at 40% and has a revenue of $2.3B. Klaviyo is growing 42% at $750M, coming up on a billion in revenue, and number one in the Shopify ecosystem. Samsara is growing 39% at $1.1B. What happened?

CTO Hire 148

CTO Hire AI Venture Capital Sales Hiring 148

Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Benefits of using Expense Categories in SaaS The main expense categories for any SaaS company are: Cost of Revenue Research & Development Sales & Marketing General & Admin These four categories are the standard for describing costs and expenses of any SaaS company from Salesforce to Zoom to your startup. New Gross Margins?

Startup 90

Startup Merchant Services DevOps as a Service SaaS 90

Frontegg

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Frontegg provides a set of pre-built, essential SaaS product capabilities that easily integrate within any new or existing SaaS application. Before AWS, engineering teams had to scale their own infrastructure. Katie Costello, Meghan Rimol: “Gartner Forecasts Worldwide Public Cloud Revenue to Grow 17% in 2020”.

DevOps as a Service 52

DevOps as a Service K8S orchestration (Kubernetes) Innovation New CTO 52