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The Playbook for Going Upmarket with Stripe’s CRO and Checkr’s COO

SaaStr

The Enterprise Pricing Journey Is All About Unbundling Stripe learned this the hard way. Enterprise buyers: Need predictability in pricing Want to buy solutions, not features Require modularity and customization Have completely different procurement processes The key is to repackage your components into enterprise-ready solutions.

Scale 269
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What’s New At WorkOS and What It Takes To Be “Enterprise-Ready” in SaaS with WorkOS CEO and Founder Michael Grinich

SaaStr

In this new SaaStr series called “What’s new at…,” Jason Lemkin chats with WorkOS CEO and founder Michael Grinich about what it takes to be Enterprise ready in SaaS, building vs. buying, and who the stakeholders are in a B2D motion. They offer all the features you need to sell to Enterprise customers.

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5 Challenges in Moving Upmarket and How to Overcome Them with Salesforce Ventures

SaaStr

Going upmarket drives category leadership because you establish yourself as the company that the Fortune 500 logos use. Challenge #3: Making Your Product, Sales, and Marketing Organizations Enterprise-Ready How do you actually get your entire organization aligned so they can support your Enterprise customers?

Scale 262
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Managing a Thin Balance Sheet: 4 Lessons Learned From Laika’s $2 Billion Acquisition with Laika Co-Founder & COO Eva Pittas and CFO Dicken Chaplin (Video)

SaaStr

Founded in 2019, Laika (an enterprise-ready compliance platform) closed a $50MM Series C by the summer of 2022. Looking back on its explosive growth, however, the company realized just how badly it needed the valuable services of a Chief Financial Officer (CFO).

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Gong’s Linda Lin on customer success strategies for moving upmarket

Intercom, Inc.

These evolving demands from enterprise customers bring with them different skillsets customer success managers need to hone. So how do you create a strong, enterprise-ready team? Since then, you’ve spent over 12 years in post-sales leadership. Finding the right skillset. So, I think it has served me well.

Scale 177
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Scaling Up Sales Managers: 5 Mistakes New leaders Make (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

If your SaaS business has a sales team, there’s no way to grow 100% year-over-year without also growing your sales leadership. I give a version of this talk to all of my first-time managers in order to set them up for success as they start their leadership journey.

Scale 182
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Totango Welcomes Seasoned Industry Leaders to Executive Team

Totango

Today, I am pleased to share that we are adding three new executives to the Totango leadership team: Hamutal Russo, CFO; Bob Crissman, SVP of Channels; and Anne Ting, SVP of Marketing. Anne is a strategy, marketing and product leader with nearly 20 years of experience building enterprise-ready, scalable platforms.