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Samsara’s Rise to Vertical SaaS Leader and $1B+ ARR with Samsara’s CEO and Co-Founder, Sanjit Biswas and SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

Ben Calderon, Samsara’s CTO who runs the hardware team did the hardware at Meraki. Once you start hearing 80 percent of customers are interested in something, a new product expansion, feature, or hardware, you should probably do it. So that’s what got folks interested and the name stuck.

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The Top 10 Reasons to Attend 2025 SaaStr Annual, May 13-15 in SF Bay!!

SaaStr

Including: CEO Snowflake CEO HubSpot CEO DropBox CEO Descript CEO Clio CEO Flock Safety CEO Own CRO ServiceTitan CMO Databricks CMO Infinite Reality CTO Rubrik CCO Canva CCO Bill CCO GitHub VP AI Wiz CEO Calendly and 100s more!! Competitive Intelligence and Market Insights and New!!

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“What Do You Mean They Quit?!” Don’t Give Your Engineers a Reason to Leave with Notion’s Head of Engineering: Michael Manapat, Change.org’s CTO: Elaine Zhou, and Plato’s CEO: Quang Hoang (Video)

SaaStr

Co-founder and CEO of Plato, Quong Hoang, the #1 mentoring platform for engineering leaders , helped moderate a discussion between CTO of Change.org, Elaine Zhou, and Head of Engineering at Notion, Michael Manapat, on this subject. What professional benchmarks do your employees need to know to ensure they’re in the right place?

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JFrog IPO: Lessons For Entrepreneurs

SaaStr

That’s the benchmark we are looking for.”. If the PLG strategy is implemented well with a quick time to value, the cost of acquiring new customers and upselling the customers provides for a very efficient business model.”. The post JFrog IPO: Lessons For Entrepreneurs appeared first on SaaStr.

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How to Think of R&D Spend

Andreessen Horowitz

And, especially when you’re considering integrating a new technology platform into your business—like AI today, or cloud a decade ago—how do you invest in innovation without losing control of your runway and budget? Map your spend to your product roadmap, then attach an expected ROI and timeline for the expected return.

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Artificial Intelligence Will Change How You Do Marketing in 2021

Unbounce

I mean the sly, step-by-way manner in which new tech slides neatly into your existing stack and subtly reframes the game on you. Yosem Reichert-Sweet, CTO, Unbounce. Our Conversion Benchmark Report crunched the data from 34 thousand landing pages. Sample benchmarks for home improvement landing pages.

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CEOs of Zapier, Walkme and Dialpad: How to Build Your First Management Team (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

As you said, people take it hard if suddenly you say, “Hey, this is your new EVP. If I wasn’t at the programming background, probably a CTO was a good idea, but for us it was sales, definitely sales and marketing. It makes sense that that would be the role that comes in as the CTO. That’s it.”