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Top 10 Reasons SaaStr Annual 2025 Will Be Better Than Ever!! May 13-15 in SF Bay!

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1,000+ Networking Sessions Weve doubled down on networking opportunities, with over 1,000 sessions, including Braindates, AMAs, mentoring, and 1:1 meetings. Whether youre looking for a co-founder, a mentor, or your next big customer, youll find them here. It’s one of the best ways to informally meet VCs!

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How We Scaled OpenAI’s Sales Team from 10 to 500 People in 2 Years: The Inside Playbook from ChatGPT Enterprise’s GTM Leader Maggie Hott

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Overinvest in their leadership development, executive coaching, and emotional intelligence training. How did you mentor and train others? Tell me about a time you had to pivot strategy mid-quarter. In the last year, AEs came to me wanting to test new verticals, pricing strategies, and pilot motions. Our CTO owned Nike.

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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

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SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin sat down with Samsara CEO and Co-Founder, Sanjit Biswas to delve into the inner workings of a company that’s not only transforming its industry but is also a case study in brilliant strategy and execution. Ben Calderon, Samsara’s CTO who runs the hardware team did the hardware at Meraki.

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How to Bridge the Gap Between Sales and Tech Teams to Drive Customer Success with HashiCorp’s CTO and VP

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Sarah Polan, EMEA Field CTO at HashiCorp, and Louise Fellows, VP NEMEA at HashiCorp, explore the relationship between Field CTO and sales to help you understand why it exists and how you can leverage this relationship when you have a highly technical product. That’s where the CTO comes in. It’s a CTO motion. An SE motion.

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GTM 134: When to Hire Your First Sales Reps (And How to Get It Right) with Joe DiMento

Sales Hacker

And they did a really good job of getting advisors who are not necessarily on their board, but people they go to all the time, who have relationships. Uh, not only as an advisor role, but typically I think you should get the expertise elsewhere, whether it’s full time or part time. What are your thoughts on player coach?

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Leadership Learnings: 5 Things I Wish I Could Have Told My 2013 Self With Advisor and Former CTO of Heap Dan Robinson (Pod 663 + Video)

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Dan Robinson, current Advisor and former CTO at Heap , shares five essential learnings from nearly a decade of building a SaaS business. What Your Job Is (And What It Isn’t) Your Job is to Make the Company Win A CTO may imagine their primary job is to provide technical expertise, lead engineers, and help build the product.

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Braindates Are Open for SaaStr APAC 2023!

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The goal is to help each other learn something new, find mentorships, create partnerships, and exchange strategies. Take a look at just some of the topics and mentors hosting Braindates: Core metrics to track for SAAS with Tarush Aggarwal, Founder & Ceo at 5X Pricing as a growth lever – How, what, why?