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A Founder’s Guide to Building and Scaling Marketing Channels: Lessons from Datadog’s CMO and First Marketing Hire

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He spent over eight years scaling their marketing from zero to supporting a multi-billion dollar public company. He came to SaaStr Annual to share his top learnings scaling Datadog’s GTM. Enlarge : Once validated, scale it up significantly to find the ceiling. The problem?

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How to Successfully Bring AI Products to Market at Scale with GitHub’s CRO

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GitHub, founded in 2008, is a leading platform for software development and version control that has made waves since 2018 with its AI Copilot. At this year’s SaaStr AI Summit, GitHub CRO Elizabeth Pemmerl shared how to bring AI products to market at scale successfully. The next horizon is scaling.

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CEO Systems: 5 Key Lessons for Scaling Through Every Growth Phase with HashiCorp CEO Dave McJannet

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And CEO David McJannet came to SaaStr Annual a little ways back to share his top scaling learnings. CEO Dave McJannet shared his systemic approach to scaling companies through distinct growth phases. The best leaders have experience with both startups and scale to navigate the in-between. 30-100M: Scaling phase.

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From $1M to $3B ARR: Databricks CRO Ron Gabrisko on Scaling a Revenue Rocket Ship

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With Databricks now one of the largest pre-IPO technology companies, with $10 billion of expected non-dilutive financing and a valuation of $62 billion, Ron’s insights are gold for any revenue leader looking to scale. His view is your sales team teaches your customers how to get value out of your product.

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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. Stakeholder Engagement 👥 Learn strategies to secure buy-in from sales, marketing, and executives.

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A Look Back: How $13 Billion Ramp Began To Scale with Co-Founder and CTO Karim Atiyah

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” This framework can be applied across every aspect of building and scaling a company: 1. . ” This framework can be applied across every aspect of building and scaling a company: 1. “These individuals scale with the company and can grow into 10x performers.”

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Top 10 Unexpected Learnings from Scaling Wiz From $0 to The First $100M ARR with founding CRO Colin Jones and Sam Blond

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It’s an incredible look back on scaling and more: Colin Jones, first Chief Revenue Officer at Wiz. Rather than seeing this as a liability, Wiz leveraged it as a strategic advantage — even in its sales team. Colin joined Wiz in February 2021 when the company was near zero revenue.

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AI in Sales: How AI is Transforming Go-to-Market

How will generative AI transform sales? In this eBook, we’ll cover: How today’s top sales leaders are incorporating AI into their go-to-market motions. In this eBook, we’ll cover: How today’s top sales leaders are incorporating AI into their go-to-market motions.

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Marketing Operations Efficiency: The Essential Checklist

Today, the discipline is increasingly interwoven with other vital go-to-market motions — including sales and customer support — and is responsible for all business elements associated with marketing, including the tech stack. As marketing becomes more tech-driven, the role of marketing operations (MOps) is getting more complex.

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Scaling Your Startup and Getting Funded: Key Lessons from Seasoned Pros

Speaker: Brian Chang, Managing Director of Warburg Pincus & Scott Schwan, Chief Product Officer of A-LIGN

Scaling your SaaS business to the growth stage requires a strong product/market-fit, an optimized marketing funnel with repeatable sales processes, and a strategy for customer retention. Navigate roadblocks to scale and maintain focus on the long-term vision. Land marquee customers and build loyalty with them.

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16 Go-to-Market Plays for Your Entire Sales Funnel

Nurturing leads through your sales funnel is a daunting task for many business development teams, especially at the scale required to achieve lofty growth goals. But personalized prospecting is possible at scale with the right resources in place. These 16 plays are aligned to different stages of the sales funnel.

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From Start to Scale: Driving Growth Through Seamless Payments Implementation

Speaker: Michael Veatch, Senior Director, Implementations & Ella Aguirre, Director of Solution Consulting

Drawing on real-world insights and experiences, payments implementation experts Michael Veatch and Ella Aguirre will explore actionable strategies that can lead to a transparent, friction-free launch and mitigate potential challenges like technical integration, misaligned expectations, and lack of preparedness.

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4 Competencies of a Successful Sales Team

Speaker: Collin Stewart, Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Predictable Revenue

As you scale your SaaS business, you want to be armed with all the necessary tools to ensure optimal growth, which ultimately stems from how effective your sales team is. Sales effectiveness = Product Market Fit*(Messaging + Channels + Tactics). October 29, 2019 11:00 AM PDT, 2:00 PM EDT, 7:00 PM BST.

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The Ultimate Gartner Report to Driving Growth & Recurring Revenue

In 2023, companies are looking to improve their revenue and drive sustainable growth by scaling their subscription offerings, to increase the rate of growth and resilience by moving from one-time sales to recurring revenue.

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Upgrading Data Security in a Crisis

Speaker: M.K. Palmore, VP Field CSO (Americas), Palo Alto Networks

In most cases, the COVID-19 crisis has sped up the desire to engage in digital transformation for medium-to-large scale enterprises. Preparing for crises that lead to security threats. Roadmaps are rarely implemented without challenges. In this webinar, you will learn: The future of data security. And much more!