SaaStr

MARCH 6, 2024

Founder CEO Todd McKinnon was VP of Engineering at Salesforce and left to start Okta in the depths of the last downturn. Salesforce and Marc Benioff at first said the core market, security identity, was too small of a market. Customer Count Up 8% Year-over-Year to 18,950 It’s hard to find net net customers after $1B ARR.

Fractional VPE 276

Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE Scale SMB 276

SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

As part of the run up to 2021 SaaStr Annual in the SF Bay Area Sep 27-29 , we’re taking a look back at some of our favorite classic sessions. (And I’m going to skip by my life story, and how I grew up as a small child in India, and how the dusty streets influenced my take on unit economics, and SaaS subscription models.

Part-Time VPE 283

Part-Time VPE Technical Cofounder CTO Hire New CTO 283

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

On day one as Reddit’s new VP of Engineering, Nick Caldwell faced a dilemma. He had just spent 13 years at Microsoft, most recently as the head of 300 engineers. At Reddit, he led a team of 35 – none of whom knew how to manage other engineers. Short on time? Nick Caldwell: I’m VP of engineering at Reddit.

Leadership 141

Leadership Engineering Part-Time VPE CTO Coach 141

SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2019

They wanted real-time results. And so we actually had to make some major adjustments and look for an alternative way to deliver the software which clearly meant that we needed to move to the cloud full-time. Traditionally we’ve been around since 2005 and traditionally have been a software on-prem business. How can you automate?

Cloud 171

Cloud Scale Trends Machine Learning 171

OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Pricing is an incredibly important part of any SaaS product’s go-to-market strategy. At Hired, we started out with a transactional model that was—at the time—a super disruptive approach and one of our key differentiators. At Hired , we help top R&D, engineering, and tech talent find jobs they love.

Sales Hiring 40

Sales Hiring Part-Time VPE CTO Hire Technical Review 40

Outseta

MAY 8, 2020

I find that refreshing. Beyond just being smart, I’ve routinely come across people in tech that are tenacious, objective, and have high emotional intelligence—so much so that I often find myself thinking, “It’s too bad so many of these smart people are building email marketing software!”

Part-Time VPE 102

Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 102

BetterCloud

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

I’ve lost count of the number of times we’ve said that you can’t secure what you can’t see. There’s still time to join the fun, though. How many files do you think BetterCloud has helped its customers find? You win a free subscription to our Daily Monitor newsletter. All jokes aside, that is a staggering number.

Part-Time VPE 52

Part-Time VPE Management Government SaaS 52