SaaStr

APRIL 20, 2025

100+ Are in B2B. #3. B2B Startups Spend 15% of Revenue on Sales and 10% on Marketing, Per SaaS Capital #4. Built a Bottom-Up AI SaaS Without a Single Sales Rep #5. The Top 10 Learnings from Launching SaaStrs Own AI: What Every B2B Founder Needs to Kno w Top Vids + Pods: #1. There Are Now 3,000+ Billionaires.

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SaaStr

MARCH 23, 2025

5 Key Learnings from Scaling from 3 to 75 Go-To-Market Team Members in Less Than 12 Months The latest SaaStr CRO Confidential is out and Sam Blond did a great deep dive with Graham Mareno, VP of Worldwide Sales at Codeium. The 5 Key Elements of Codeium’s GTM Scaling Playbook 1. What is Codeium and Windsurf?

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SaaStr

APRIL 14, 2025

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! With 200+ top AI demos and sessions from leaders like Perplexity, Google Cloud, GitHub, Rubrik and more, youll get the most comprehensive look at how AI is reshaping B2B. The SaaStr.AI

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SaaStr

APRIL 2, 2025

It’s one of the fastest-changing spaces in B2B. Modest Reacceleration Past Two Quarters Sometime in Q3’24 might have been the end of the “downturn” in many B2B categories, per HubSpot and also here per Freshworks. When B2B companies burn cash and issue a lot of equity, the dilution can be fierce.

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SaaStr

MARCH 15, 2025

It’s live on SaaStr.com itself and you can also access it here and talk to AI Jason about any of 1000s and 1000s of B2B, sales, SaaS, VC, etc. Here are some of the top ones: “How My VP, Sales Doubled Our Sales in 90 Days. Here are some of the top ones: “How My VP, Sales Doubled Our Sales in 90 Days.

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SaaStr

APRIL 8, 2025

Many of the early break out leaders in AI for B2B and otherwise have been “small but mighty teams” Honestly we’d all love it if that scaled. The Second “Problem” With Small But Mighty AI Teams … Is Enterprise Sales A tiny team can be fairly efficient with a 100% self-serve and PLG motion.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Speaker Bio Jason Lyman leads marketing at Customer.io, where he’s helped scale the platform to power over 35 billion customer interactions for 7,000+ high-growth companies. Before Customer.io, Jason built and scaled marketing teams at several B2B SaaS companies, with a focus on customer engagement and revenue operations. .

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SaaStr

JANUARY 1, 2025

Not everywhere, not at every start-up or scale-up. 78% of you see 2025 being better than 2024: In most of B2B, it may never be as easy as 2H’20 and 2021. It was a time when a pandemic lead to rapidly accelerating buying in a way we may never see again. So it’s in the air. And AI is adding so much fuel to the fire.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2024

From startup to $500M CARR, Spencer Burke, SVP of Growth at Braze, shares how Braze scaled a growth and customer success team. In this AI moment we’re in, there are still many moments in scaling a company where intuition still matters. You don’t have to leave as the organization scales. This isn’t new.

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SaaStr

MAY 25, 2024

Cloudinary VP of Developer Experience Sanjay Sarathy shares his journey to more than $100M and the lessons he learned along the way for building a PLG motion and an Enterprise sales motion. They didn’t initially envision being a large Enterprise sales organization. Let’s first start with how Cloudinary came to be. The takeaway?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Key points about SaaStr Annual : Focus on SaaS: Primarily focused on all aspects of SaaS business including sales, marketing, product development, and customer success. Large Audience: Considered the biggest SaaS conference with a large number of attendees from leading SaaS companies, startups, and venture capital firms.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 23, 2025

Listen for the full insights into: How Flippa.com works to connect for-sale businesses with buyers while managing the complexities of valuation and seller expectations. When I was running it, it was a lot smaller than that, but scaled that up very, very quickly. And that’s substantial scale in.

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SaaStr

JUNE 13, 2021

It’s been great to have the CEOs of Qualtrics join us multiple times over the years, as it scaled from a late-stage startup to IPO to $8B+ acquisition. Fast forward to today, and Qualtrics is now worth $20B and CEO Zig Serafin joined us to share his lessons in scaling with Julia Laroche, Correspondent at Yahoo Finance.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Dear SaaStr: What Is The Optimal Structure of an Initial SaaS B2B Sales Team? Where, roughly speaking, each sales rep brings in at least 4x-5x the total compensation they take out. Where you burn a ton of cash is “buying” sales. Shoving sales reps into segments where you don’t have enough leads / enough demand.

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2022

Jason recently opened up an AMA on Twitter Spaces to answer questions about how to scale faster. And I’ve watched them fairly quickly scale, to soon they’ll be at 10 million in revenue. As they scaled, they radically changed how they did sales. Jason Lemkin: Okay. Let’s get it going. Times are good.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The event is strategically designed to facilitate 1000s of meaningful connections through 1000+ on-site “Who Do You Want To Meet” dedicated 1-on-1s for B2B founders and execs (no service providers, sorry!) VIP Networking app for B2B founders and execs attending (no service providers, sorry!)

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Guy Yalif is a seasoned B2B SaaS executive with over 20 years of go-to-market experience. 15:41) Scaling Twitter’s ad business and managing hyper-growth. (26:54) Plus, an analysis of the top 75 trending sales AI tools.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 21, 2022

If your organization is seeking growth in a new segment, like B2B—it will be a challenging ride because you’ll be in an unknown space. You might feel confused about where to begin, how to scale up, which mistakes you should avoid, and things you should consider before expanding. Enter your email below for the latest SaaStr updates.

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SaaStr

JULY 15, 2022

Jason recently opened up an AMA on Twitter Spaces to answer questions about scaling from $1M to $10M. We did a good AMA on this scaling at SaaStr Europa in Barcelona, a couple weeks back. That will scale, and then take those emails after four great pieces of content and do a weekly webinar and do a weekly get-together for them.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 8, 2024

So, you have to make more money to justify the sales process and recognize that a lot of what drove the first generation of this was rapidly commoditizing and chasing people to the bottom. If you look at the best sales reps, they smash their numbers no matter what. Sales’ greatest filter is brutal work. You need to do it all.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Q: What are the common mistakes in B2B sales in the early-ish days? The list could be endless, and it can vary a lot based on type of customer, type of sale, etc. The list could be endless, and it can vary a lot based on type of customer, type of sale, etc. Firing” prospects. Do not fire a prospect.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 6, 2020

If you're starting a SaaS company, should you prefer to sell to B2B or B2C companies? And if you would like to sell to both, how should you allocate your sales teams? If you were to hazard a guess about the share of B2C vs B2B companies, what would it be? Across all US companies, B2B companies outnumber B2C companies 1.6:1.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 10, 2020

As CEO of Gainsight , he has done more than most to popularize the category in the B2B SaaS world, and these efforts recently culminated in the company being acquired by Vista Equity Partners for $1.1 In the B2B world, it’s not just about the experience. Understanding customer outcomes at scale.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2024

Probably the biggest challenge in vertical SaaS I see is scaling the sales team. It’s pretty easy to hire SaaS sales execs to sell … a SaaS sales product. So if you hire reps for standard B2B companies, they often literally close nothing. Plan to be in founder-led sales mode longer. Well maybe.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

PagerDuty was one of the more disruptive B2B apps when it lauched. Spending on sales & marketing is down. International Revenue is 28% About in the middle for B2B. #5. But like many in B2B that saw a “downturn”, that downturn mostly ended in Q3’24 or so. As has PagerDuty. So is spending on product.

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SaaStr

APRIL 13, 2025

The Top 10 Learnings from Launching SaaStrs Own AI: What Every B2B Founder Needs to Know Top Pods & Vids: #1. Sales in the AI Era From the Top CROs with Sam Blond + Jason Lemkin #2. The RevOps Playbook: Owner.com CROs Secrets to Scaling #4. Top 10 Things We Learned from the New SaaStr AI with Jason Lemkin + Assistant UI #5.

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SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2025

So Dropbox was the fastest B2B app of the last era to rocket to $1 Billion in ARR. Since then, it has IPO’d and transitioned to a new mature phase, where it’s highly profitable and focused on efficient scaling. This is what many B2B leaders see where the product isn’t regulated or in a specific vertical.

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SaaStr

JUNE 13, 2024

Earlier this month, Gong’s CEO and Co-Founder Amit Bendov sat down with SaaStr Founder and CEO Jason Lemkin at SaaStr Europa 2024 to talk about all things AI and the lessons learned while scaling to billions. What Does AI-Enhanced Sales Look Like In Two Years Everyone’s thinking about it. First, no drudgery. Yes,” Amit says.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 8, 2024

In the competitive arena of B2B sales, mastering the art of prospecting is key to ensuring a healthy sales pipeline, daily demos booked, and hitting your sales quota. Fortunately for you, we’ve sifted through the clutter and done all the legwork to bring you the top 10 sales prospecting tools.

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SaaStr

APRIL 7, 2023

As a self-proclaimed accidental entrepreneur, Browder shares a few unconventional ways to scale your company. The DoNotPay journey started six years ago and has led to many unconventional lessons that go against the popular wisdom of starting, scaling, and distributing a product. Dating apps tap into lust.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

. “Mastermind Masterclass: The SaaS Org Chart by Series with David Sacks” David Sacks, founder of Craft Ventures and Yammer, and ex-COO, leads us on a new Mastermind class on opening day. #2. “The Secrets Behind Creating Scalable Products with Box’s CEO” Always insightful when Aaron Levie joins! #6.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Their first step to achieving this was hiring a sales leader to build a sales team. They also hired a VP of Partners who knew how to scale B2B software. Something will inevitably go wrong when trying to scale your company the Storyblok way, but these tips can help you make them right: Trust your instincts.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 3, 2023

PST, Bo Borland, founder, and CEO of playbuilt, shares four steps for creating repeatable success at every stage of growth, specifically in B2B Enterprise. Let’s look at Borland’s approach to aligning and executing B2B team selling motions for a rinse-and-repeat process for growth. Why is teaming the new selling?

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 22, 2021

Buyer behavior is one area that has seen significant change – according to a recent report by McKinsey , 70% of B2B decision makers say they’re now open to making new, fully self-serve, or remote purchases in excess of $50,000, while 27% percent would spend more than $500,000. Create consistent, customer-centric experiences.

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SaaStr

JULY 31, 2024

In this week’s Workshop Wednesday , SaaStr Founder and CEO Jason Lemkin shares the 7 things the best sales reps get right and the 8 ways the rest make things worse. #1: The best sales reps solve your problems. When you’re doing so well that you’re in order-taking mode, sales reps don’t have to solve a problem.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

brand, once you have the prospect in your funnel. Pricing “cheap” won’t get prospects to come find you, not usually. But it can reduce friction in the sales process. And reducing friction is key to scaling in the early days … and maybe even later. Brands matter.

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SaaStr

MAY 27, 2021

For the past 10 years, I’ve been a sales advisor for the portfolio companies of early stage venture capital firm True Ventures. It’s fascinating work for a sales mind like mine that’s focused on helping brilliant people turn ideas into revenue-driving businesses. . A Pair of Sales Development Representatives. By Lars Nilsson.

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