SaaStr

OCTOBER 20, 2022

One thing that is clear is that public SaaS and Cloud stock prices are way down. They aren’t perfect, but given how many CIOs they interview — over 2,200 for this survey — they’re one of my favorite sources for what’s happening in 2023. So are we in some sort of downturn — or aren’t we?

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Buffer Resources

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Here are a few types of visual content that we share to engage people directly on LinkedIn: Data graphics and reports Podcast audio snippets Webinar video snippets Customer interviews Customer quote cards Slides Infographics Culture and achievement photos Cloud cost memes A few examples of our visual content 2. 3 153 15 0.4 0 7 2 34.5

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SaaStr

APRIL 8, 2021

First, most Cloud businesses have benefitted dramatically from Covid. Many Cloud and SaaS CEOs have gotten more effective and efficient — and richer — during Covid. But I think the learning from all my interviews here and the Microsoft data is to be careful to map your experience, and feelings, to your team’s.

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Clouded Judgement

JANUARY 20, 2023

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. ServiceNow CEO Commentary Bill McDermott gave an interview this week where he sounded very bullish on the year ahead. You can listen to the full interview in the link above (it’s short, only ~5 minutes). Follow along to stay up to date!

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 11, 2021

Aaron Levie, CEO and Co-founder of Box, discusses the approaches he used for scaling his company in terms of hybrid work, adjusting to a dynamic economy during the pandemic, and the importance of the Cloud and digital technology for every business. Box has always lived in the Cloud, anti-on-prem. About the podcast.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 29, 2021

Top SaaStr Blog Posts This Week : The Top 10 Questions to Ask a VP of Marketing in an Interview. The Top 100 Private Cloud and SaaS Companies Now Have an Average Valuation of $5.2 10 Marketing Tactics That Always Work for Early-Stage SaaS StartUps. What’s the “Right” CAC These Days? The One You Can Afford.

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Interviewing Cloud Startup Strategy 283

SaaStr

DECEMBER 6, 2021

For example, Pagey, our mascot, ended up videobombing me during an interview with CNBC. Before going public, PagerDuty landed on tailwinds like cloud adoption and migration, DevOps transformation, and digital acceleration (formerly digital transformation). What’s going to change? Are those changes positive? Will they help you to scale?

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

The engagement may last a few months and involve extensive interviews and online research (yes, lots of Googling!) . The main value prop is treating competitive intel as a living cloud document,” said Murray. After all, when a company engages in competitive intelligence, there will often be the retaining of a consulting firm.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Like I was interviewing the CEO of $9.5 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. They knew what they we’re going to do. Then there’s founders that stumble into an opportunity.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2021

We’re currently in the age of the public cloud. Databricks started out in the Cloud; we never provided an on-prem offering, only a SaaS Cloud offering. The developers you engage with often become your first adopters, who then become product evangelists—and they’ll help you scale and solidify trust within enterprises, too.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2023

In this interview, David Sacks talks about how 70-80% of investor time is spent looking at AI. PLG is like the Cloud. There are no Cloud magicians, and you can’t hire a PLG magician. During the interview process, ask them who they’ll bring with them. Q: Should Early-Stage Companies Sprinkle in AI?

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SaaStr

MAY 10, 2021

There’s one theme we’ve reiterated over the years, at least since 2017 or so when we interviewed the CEOs of Twilio and Veeva back-to-back : To grow quickly after $100m ARR, you probably need a second core product. Certainly to grow quickly as you approach $1B. The only question is when.

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Merchant Services SaaS Payments SMB Payment Solutions 263

SaaStr

APRIL 28, 2022

And we religiously track the NRR of all public cloud and SaaS leaders in our 5 Interesting Learning series. It’s epic NRR that has fueled UiPath, Twilio, Snowflake, and so many other Cloud leaders. Especially after interviewing 50+ customer success managers over the past few years. I’m no longer so sure.

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Customer Success Metrics Scale Retention 264

Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 10, 2022

In this interview, he shares his views on the. The post MongoDB CTO On Working with Cloud Providers and Working in Southeast Asia appeared first on Future.

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CTO Cloud Transportation Interviewing 110

SaaStr

AUGUST 2, 2021

Aneesa Sayall (VP of Strategic Operations Customer & Partner Org at ServiceNow) interviews Lara Caimi, the ServiceNow Chief Customer & Partner Officer, about the journey to $15 billion and how building partnerships help propel the business. Examples include AWS, Adobe, Microsoft, and Google Cloud.

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SaaStr

MAY 6, 2022

Co-Founder Lloyed Lobo recently interviewed Jason about his experience and advice for SaaS leaders. . Cloud has never been bigger. After an impressive career in SaaS, SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin knows a thing or two about growing business in today’s competitive climate. Stay the Course: Avoid Serial Entrepreneurship.

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Entrepreneurship Leadership Interviewing Cloud 237

User Pilot

MARCH 9, 2025

It could include conducting user interviews and surveys, analyzing product usage data, and tracking customer feedback , to name a few. User interviews: Conduct in-depth one-on-one conversations with customers for personal insights about a product or issue. Let’s go back to the goal of improving onboarding.

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SaaS Social Media Interviewing Scale 83

Andreessen Horowitz

AUGUST 2, 2022

In this interview, Lambert discusses a number of topics related to cloud native software-delivery models, including what good serverless looks like, who should run Kubernetes, and the emergence. The post PlanetScale CEO on Cloud-Prem and Climbing the Engineering Ladder appeared first on Future.

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Andreessen Horowitz

JULY 26, 2022

Thomas Graf is the co-founder and CTO of Isovalent, and creator of a popular open source (and cloud native) networking technology called Cilium. In this interview, Graf discusses the roles that Cilium and eBPF play in the growing cloud-native networking ecosystem, as well some broader.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 12, 2021

I was expecting questions a candidate might be asked in a consulting interview. ” The inventor of the field has wandered through a forest to discover and carries the burden of that history clouding judgment. Part memoir, other times, a mathematics lecture on information theory, and yet others a book on life philosophy.

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Engineering Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Consulting 208

How To Buy Saas

MAY 21, 2025

Modern ATS software automates tedious tasks like job posting, resume screening, and interview scheduling, freeing HR teams to focus on engaging with candidates. From cloud-based SaaS solutions to on-premise enterprise software , businesses worldwide are leveraging ATS technology to build efficient, fair, and scalable hiring pipelines.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

A lot of our customers are the Cloud 100 , the post IPO, the Intercoms, the Airtables, the Asanas, the Vidyards, and so forth who are at SaaStr. ” Listen to the full podcast interview with the Dooly team below: The post The Cutting Edge Techniques for an Impactful Live Event Strategy with Dooly appeared first on SaaStr.

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Strategy Travel Branding Interviewing 279

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 19, 2018

That includes all of our cloud strategy, cloud operations, backend engineering, IT and security. You can think of them beginning from very base infrastructural technologies, and in our case we’re betting exclusively on AWS as a cloud vendor. I interviewed Ciaran, and I interviewed Darragh, our VP of Engineering.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 26, 2020

We are conducting interviews and onboarding new employees remotely. AWS is the leading cloud provider in the industry, and we leverage their portfolio of globally redundant services to ensure Intercom runs reliably. Intercom has always operated as a cloud-native company working across multiple offices and time zones.

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Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Competition from Amazon and other cloud providers who host successful open source products has become an increasingly stiff headwind. The Clearest Articulation of a Marketing Roadmap - After I interviewed a VP Marketing candidate, I summarized her perspective on marketing with this post.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 14, 2019

But the cloud has grown 10x since then, and most of our community wouldn’t even know what an anti-Dreamforce was. But there are now 100 Cloud Unicorns. Making it Where The Cloud Meets. They love jetting in and doing 10+ interviews in 1 fell swoop with all the media. That was incredibly fun. Why does that matter?

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Scale Cloud Branding Enterprise 190

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

For instance, small businesses can opt for cloud-based ATS software that is more affordable and doesn’t require an on-site tech support team. Contrarily, large-sized enterprises don’t need to go cloud-based since they have a higher budget and can afford an in-house support team to cater to their higher hiring frequency.

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Software Review Software Interviewing Scale 144

SaaStr

JUNE 12, 2020

342: On this episode of the SaaStr podcast, our CEO, Jason Lemkin, chats with Zapier CEO, Wade Foster, on Distributed Teams and Building a Cloud Product. This interview was recorded in February 2020. Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Jason’s interview with Wade. This is where the cloud meets. Wade Foster.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

And as nice as verbal assurances and a handshake are, as you grow and try to sign with more established, enterprise-level companies, you’ll find yourself more and more having to provide proofs of compliance before closing the deal: The shift to the cloud, more and more data breaches – it really put a magnifying glass on third-party risk.

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Scale Software Review compliance Technical Review 211

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

We created and served up apps via the cloud on a subscription basis. This is when I got hooked on tech, and SaaS, and cloud, and making things faster and better. You can interview the company for it, but at some point it’s a little bit of a leap of faith. Now, we did really cool stuff at this startup.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 1, 2023

We’re still learning what world we’re in — some people interview over Zoom, some are focused on how to build teams in the current age, and many are dealing with a weird overhang from the SaaS explosion of 2021, quiet quitting, layoffs, and team turnover. In interviews, ask them if they want to close any in the first 90 days.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 5, 2019

Report bugs in a flash with the Jira Cloud app. With the Jira Cloud app, you automatically see any issues associated with a conversation – and the status of those issues – right beside the conversation. Plus, with feedback-based segments, you can book interviews with User Interview Scheduler or any other scheduling app.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2024

Mark Roberge , SaaStr fan-favorite and Co-Founder and Managing Director of Stage 2 Capital brought together some of the top CROs in SaaS during the SaaStr Annual to share some of their greatest learnings and pivotal moments leading some of the Cloud 100 SaaS companies.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Not only is it the name for his own interview series, it’s the evolution of his own thinking about the attributes that leaders need today. It is completely unacceptable to have to survey users to understand what they’re doing in your product when your product is sitting in the cloud and you should be able to see that, right?”.

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User Pilot

DECEMBER 31, 2024

On the other hand, Hotjar offers more options for extensive user research Hotjars one-on-one interviews stand out. With Hotjar, you can conduct one-on-one interviews for in-depth product insights. PostHog is an open-source product analytics platform that offers both cloud-based and self-hosted implementation options.

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Software Review Mobile Interviewing Technical Review 52

IT World

OCTOBER 30, 2019

There is a fundamental, but perhaps a logical evolution in the way networks are being built to handle hybrid cloud applications – resources are moving closer to the edge; data centers are becoming more distributed and cloud hyperscalers are building bigger backbones to handle that traffic.

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IT World

MARCH 11, 2019

(Editor’s note: Recent research by Enterprise Management Associates takes a look at how enterprises regard cloud management tools. To read this article in full, please click here

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