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

SaaStr

Unparalleled Networking Opportunities SaaStr Annual brings together thousands of SaaS, Cloud and AI executives, founders, VCs, and industry leaders under one roof across our 40+ acre campus, May 13-15 in SF Bay! Finding and recruiting top talent is consistently ranked as one of the biggest challenges for growing SaaS companies.

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The Playbook to Recruiting Your Sales Team with Brex Chief Sales Officer Sam Blond (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Nothing matters but recruiting and using your personal network. Sam Blond, CSO at Brex explains why recruiting, networking and employee happiness is the key to this playbook on recruiting your sales team. Sam Blond | Chief Sales Officer @ Brex. I’m doing The Playbook To Recruiting Your Sales Team.

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Expanding Your Time Horizon To Scale Your Startup

Tom Tunguz

Customer meetings, product releases, investor pitches. Three yards and a cloud of dust. The founders have hired department heads, who manage employees. At some point, those managers manage managers too. A new VP of customer success. To recruit 100 people. Fight for another three yards.

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SaaStr is Turning 10! How a Blog Turned into A Global SaaS Community for 250,000+

SaaStr

2019 saw SaaStr Annual’s biggest event yet – 12,000 global community members came together to take over the Bay Area and it became the event Where the Cloud Meets. Founders were able to recruit on-site. So we took our learnings from our first successful outdoor event and brought back SaaStr Europa in 2022.

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CRO Confidential: Principles that drove Wiz’s $0 to $100M Journey with Wiz CRO Colin Jones (Pod 665 + Video)

SaaStr

The company helps enterprises internationally with contextual and actionable insights to secure their cloud infrastructure. Recruit diverse leaders The goal of hiring a revenue leader is to put gasoline on finding product market fit success. CROs should focus on capturing that unrealized demand which is not a sales-led effort.

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Scaling to $150M ARR and Beyond with Grafana Labs and Lightspeed

SaaStr

Back then, remote first was a recruiting advantage. Cloud was a big unlock for monetization. Less Than 1% of Grafana Labs’ Users Pay The 6,000 to a million ratio is staggering regarding how much usage there is vs. paid customers. All they sold was the visualization layer with no sales team. Today, not so much.

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The Top 10 Mistakes People Make When Hiring a VP of Sales with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

Hiring a VP of Sales isn’t new, but the conversations have evolved as the world has. Jason has written about the cheat codes for hiring VPs of Sales since 2012 and realized it was worth a deeper dive. Jason has written about the cheat codes for hiring VPs of Sales since 2012 and realized it was worth a deeper dive.