SaaStr

APRIL 14, 2025

SaaStr Annual has always been the go-to event for SaaS founders, executives, and investors, but 2025 is shaping up to be the best one yet. Heres why this years event is bigger, bolder, and more impactful than ever. VIP Summits for Every Role Weve expanded our VIP events to include summits for CROs, CMOs, CFOs, and CCOs.

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

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

So just how many SaaS, Cloud, B2B/B2D pre-IPO unicorns are there really? So how many of them are like us — SaaS, Cloud software, or fintech that is SaaS-y? In any event, it’s good to have a sense of just how many unicorns there really are in the SaaS and SaaS-adjacent world. and more.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

SaaStr is committed to having the most inclusive community in Cloud, SaaS and AI. We are proud that the 2018-2024 SaaStr Annuals have featured over 50% women and multicultural speakers at each event. We are happy to bring the next generation of Cloud execs to Annual, too! And understand we do make some mistakes.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

State of Cloud ’21 with Byron Deeter and Bessemer Venture Partners. The post Join Our Next MEGA-DIGITAL EVENT!! CEO Harnass. CMO Snowflake. CEO Webflow. CEO Skilljar. Thomas Tunguz / Redpoint. much, much more!! Join us FOR FREE -> SaaStrBuild.com. SaaStr Build!! appeared first on SaaStr.

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Cloud 279

SaaStr

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Now that we have much larger spaces for Annual and Europa, we were able to run a great experiment this year at SaaStr Annual 2022: building an Executive Briefing Center, and letting our top sponsors do meet-ups and even mini-events in our Executive Briefing Center. It turned out to work really well. Don’t just join us. The post New!

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Cloud 278

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

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! The event attracts investors ranging from seed-stage to growth equity, making it relevant regardless of your funding stage.

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Sales Recruiting Scale CTO Hire Sales Hiring 195

SaaStr

AUGUST 2, 2022

He is a three time successful founder, current Managing Director at SaaStr Fund, and CEO and founder of SaaStr, the largest community of SaaS founders, investors and executives in the cloud. It’s a deep dive on where events, field marketing and more are right now. Give the episode a listen here.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Discover Bessemer Venture Partners’s annual State of the Cloud report, going through trends, benchmarks, and metrics that underpin the Cloud economy. The past twelve months have been relatively turbulent for Cloud founders. What does this mean for Cloud companies? What does this mean for Cloud companies?

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Cloud Payments Software Review Payment Solutions 311

SaaStr

APRIL 11, 2020

These have been the craziest of times, both in general and certainly for IRL events. The one upside is we now have a much clearer and better, digital strategy along with our IRL events strategy. If the world allows us, it will be a hybrid event with an IRL component in San Francisco (we have a venue).

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Innovation Cloud Strategy 227

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

A lot can happen when it’s a live event. Live events are unpredictable but always encompass two things: a) the event dates don’t change and b) you need a plan A, plan B, and at least a plan C, for when something doesn’t go accordingly to plan. Go to the events they’re going to. .

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Strategy Travel Branding Interviewing 279

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2019

Fast forward 5 years, and we’ll have 20,000+ attendees and 150+ sponsors attend our events in the U.S. We’re just getting going on our vision of fueling the world’s largest community for B2B executives, and building the #1 global events for Where The Cloud Meets. and Europe. And 5,000+ mentoring sessions.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2023

Greenhouse has a great co-hosted after-party event with HiBob around WorkTech on September 6 at 7 pm PT here: [link] Mission Cloud and AWS are hosting a happy hour at the Paul Martin’s just near the campus. The post The Official Guide to SaaStr Annual 2023 Parties and Side Events!! Sign up here. Much more coming!

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AWS Cloud SaaS Sales 246

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

I thought a lot about a comment from Loren Padelford, GM and SVP of Shopify/Shopify Plus at the recent SaaStr: Enterprise event. The post Is the Covid Boost in Cloud and SaaS Already Over? Doesn’t the Covid Boost eventually have to slow down, as the acceleration into the future becomes … the present?

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Cloud SaaS Mobile Enterprise 294

SaaStr

JULY 25, 2023

Dreamforce : Although Dreamforce, hosted by Salesforce, encompasses a broader scope than just SaaS, it remains a significant event for SaaS professionals. Microsoft Inspire : Microsoft Inspire is an annual event for Microsoft’s partner community, which includes SaaS companies building on the Microsoft ecosystem.

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ChatGPT AWS SaaS CTO 189

SaaStr

JUNE 25, 2020

Our podcast reaches 110,000+ cloud execs and is #1 in SaaS and Cloud, but until last week has been sold out for the year. 3x the newsletter capacity. We’ve always had sponsors in the SaaStr Weekly, but left the Daily, the SaaStr Insider, and the Cloud Daily sponsor-free. Each reach 100,000+ Cloud execs a month.

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Cloud SaaS Advertising Startup 232

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

It took me a while to understand the power of events and field marketing. One thing is clear — events are expensive. Putting on your own event is expensive — and complicated. Exhibiting at someone else’s event is expensive — and bounded. Events: Are They Worth the Big Expense?

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Cloud Branding Strategy Marketing 239

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 23, 2022

We’ve just wrapped up an incredible day of New at Intercom , our first global virtual launch event, where we discussed our vision for the future of customer engagement and unveiled some incredible new products. If you were there, you know first-hand how much news we shared throughout the event.

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Scale DevOps as a Service Communication Scaling 220

SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

@jasonlk joins @Jason to talk: 2020's cloud software boom How @zoom_us & @ericsyuan conquered competitors The public CEO acquisition mindset. : [link] : [link] pic.twitter.com/JT7MPreIpT. This Week in Startups brought us back on this week and we did a deep dive on a bunch of interesting things: Digital events. And much more!

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SaaStr

APRIL 27, 2023

SaaStr events couldn’t happen without our partners, and we wanted to give a special shout-out to some of our newest sponsors for SaaStr Annual 2023. The post Thanks to Google Cloud for Startups, HiBob, Quotapath, Spendflo, and Toplyne for Sponsoring SaaStr Annual 2023! appeared first on SaaStr.

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Cloud Scale Startup Sales Hiring 264

Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 14, 2021

Cloud Data Lakes are the future of large scale data analysis , and the more than 5000 registrants to the first conference substantiate this massive wave. This time, the conference will build on the foundation from last year’s event. Cloud data lakes are a key technology enabling the innovation in analytics and machine learning.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Our first SaaStr event in Asia Pacific. . We are excited to announce today that SaaStr is heading to Singapore to host our first ever SaaStr APAC event in 2023! 25+ Leading speakers: Unicorns and top leaders in SaaS and Cloud will share how they did and how you can learn from their mistakes . SaaStr APAC 2023 is officially a GO!

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SaaStr

JULY 1, 2020

Restaurants, events, recruiting, and so many other industries are in deep trouble. But on balance, Covid-19 is dramatically accelerating SaaS: During “Shelter Plus” times, in the end, we’ve worked more in the Cloud: More Zooms. Yes, IRL Cloud companies have taken a hit — e.g., Eventbrite. You know this, but also. It’s now clear.

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SaaS Cloud Scaling 364

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

But there’s another SaaS leader that almost everyone in B2B software also uses also founded in 1999 — to manage their events. Managed to Make the Most of Virtual Events. While the overall category of Virtual Events software is in a funk, Cvent did OK. #2. 70% of Cvent’s revenue comes from its events software.

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Marketplace as a Service Software Review Cloud B2B 331

SaaStr

MARCH 11, 2022

Was the “Covid Boost” in Cloud multiples just an anomoly? Put differently, if you look at multiples of revenue for top SaaS and Cloud companies above from 2014-2022, you could come to one of (at least) two conclusions today: Conclusion #1: Q2’20-Q4’22 Cloud Revenue Multiples Were a Covid Anomaly.

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Scale SaaS Cloud Pricing 329

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

So our SaaStr Digital events since March have been wildly successful — much more than we expected. Our next big Digitial Event will launch next week, SaaStr Scale 2020 on Dec 8-9. Our next big Digitial Event will launch next week, SaaStr Scale 2020 on Dec 8-9. Reach out here : The post Need Leads in Q4?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 1, 2020

This has been an incredible roller-coaster for us in SaaS and Cloud since March 15, for some even more than others, but an incredible amount of change for all of us. Some of you are in the “Covid Decimated” category (travel, IRL events, etc) and things in many ways are as tough and rough as March. This was hard on all us.

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Sales Hiring Venture Capital Cloud Travel 363

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

And Hopin, a digital events company that hit $20m in its first year? If you can grow faster, it’s more worth it than ever in SaaS and Cloud. 1T spend on events annually? It’s worth 100x ARR. Let’s look at the slower growth SaaS companies in the index, like Box, Zuora, Dropbox, and Domo.

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SaaStr

MARCH 27, 2025

It was great digital event, the peak of digital events, and we had an incredible 20,000+ attended digitally (!). Today, Twilio is a $16 Billion Cloud giant and Jeff is CEO emeritus. A ways back, we had some of the best founders in SaaS join us for SaaStr Summit: Bridging the Gap to buck people during the lockdown times.

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SaaStr

JULY 14, 2022

The SaaStr Annual is the largest non-vendor event in the industry, with 10,000+ attendees from all across the world coming together each year in the SF Bay Area. We also launched an affiliated $90m venture fund and had our inaugural SaaStr Europa event in Paris of 2018. We were the first major SaaS event back in the SF Bay Area.

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Scale Sales Recruiting CTO Hire New CTO 312

SaaStr

AUGUST 23, 2022

Over 150,000 have attended our digital events, SaaStr Build and SaaStr Scale in particular. From the CEOs of Slack and Zoom and MongoDB and Notion and Asana, to the top revenue and engineering leaders in Cloud. Yes, we charge for tickets to our IRL events, but for the most part — that’s it. And will remain so.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Amplitude is a quiet Cloud leader that you might not have heard of — unless you are building software. Some leaders like Slack have seen the same, but most Cloud leaders at scale with high NRR end up getting more and more of their revenue from their existing base, not new customers. 5 Interesting Learnings: #1. This is rare.

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Scale CTO Hire New CTO CTO 312

SaaStr

AUGUST 2, 2021

We’ll bring together the top Cloud executives, VCs and more together Sep 27-29 in Silicon Valley. We work hard to make tickets as inexpensive as possible for an event of this scale and type. And we want all of the best in Cloud and SaaS to be at Annual. . : Second(s). But many others cannot. 532 are already taken!

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Cloud Scaling Revenue SaaS 298

SaaStr

APRIL 5, 2022

Gartner released its latest “Best Performing Marketing Channel” survey , and while it’s not as informative (to me at least) as its CIO and Cloud reports, there are a few interesting learnings: A few learnings on getting those MQLs: Email is #1. Events are now coming back strong.

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Scale Mobile Cloud Pricing 325

SaaStr

JUNE 24, 2020

It’s hard to believe that we have another lineup of giants in our series of digital events, but we do! This will be a 1 day, multi-track event ( FREE to attendees ) with over 5,000 expected to attend. The Changes We Didn’t Expect with Coupa and SaaStr with Rob Bernshteyn, CEO @ Coupa and SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin.

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Enterprise Cloud Innovation Scaling 285

SaaStr

MAY 17, 2021

SaaStr Enterprise is a flagship SaaStr digital event on May 26 + 27 where the top executives and leaders driving innovation in the Cloud share their playbooks on scaling your business to market and sell to the enterprise. 500 CXOs exploring emerging trends and cloud innovation. SIGN UP (IT’S FREE). APPLY HERE.

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Enterprise CTO Cloud Innovation 275

SaaStr

AUGUST 16, 2020

Portfolios in many cases were hit hard, with startups in travel, events, fitness, etc. hit hard, and VCs distracted with working out the issues in their portfolios: But the slow down lasted, at best, 60 days: First, Cloud stocks went on an unprecedented tear. As did Cloud revenues. That meant more competition.

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Venture Capital Travel Cloud Investment 317

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

SaaStr Scale is our growth-focused event with the best lessons learned from CEOs, CROs, CMOS, CCOs, and much more on how to scale to $1m, $10m, $100m, $1B ARR … and beyond! MD Google Cloud. Hear from and meet: CEO Okta. CRO Demandbase. VPM LeanData. VPS Modern Health. CRO Beanworks. CMO Talend. VPS RevenueCat. VPM Twitter.

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