The Official SaaStr Podcast: SaaS | Founders | Investors

At his core, Jeff Lawson is a software developer first, and a CEO second. He knows both sides of the executive & engineering equation intimately. He gets what goes on in a developer's brain and the detailed process of building software, but he understands that businesses are motivated to move quickly. And in turn, developers need to adapt. An all-time SaaStr fan-favorite, Jeff recently chatted with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin to discuss his thoughts on collaborating, managing, and working with developers. Video and blog post: https://www.saastr.com/how-to-collaborate-manage-and-work-with-developers-featuring-jeff-lawson-twilio/

Reducing churn in SaaS, along with increasing new ARR is the backbone to growing your business. In this guide, Andrea Webb, the SVP of Customer Success & Retention at Solarwinds, and Tim Willey, the SVP of Commercial Strategy & Operations at ForgeRock, share their tips for understanding and combating churn. Video and blog post: https://www.saastr.com/10-rules-for-defining-churn-with-forgerock-and-solarwinds/

In this episode, Sahir Azam, Chief Product Officer at MongoDB, and Javier Molina, SVP at MongoDB, share their journey to increasing company revenue through their cohesive sales and product relationship. When sales and product work together, amazing things happen. Video and blog post: https://www.saastr.com/how-sales-and-product-really-should-work-together-with-javier-molina-vp-corporate-sales-americas-mongodb-and-sahir-azam-chief-product-officer-mongodb/

As your company grows, so does the focus on enterprise deals. Learn from Zendesk senior management about how to balance your needs and organization's focus on enterprise wins to reach $1B in revenue without ever forgetting the importance of catering to your original customer base and extending those learnings into new market segments. Video and blog post: https://www.saastr.com/the-secret-sauce-to-scaling-to-1b-with-zendesk/

Customer churn is the bane of online businesses, and data can help you understand the causes of churn and take action to reduce it. In this podcast, you'll discover powerful customer metrics that help your entire organization. Video and blog post: https://www.saastr.com/fighting-churn-with-data-in-saas/ Sponsors: GuideCX is a client onboarding and project management platform that helps you invite, guide, and engage internal and customer teams in a transparent way that delivers value faster. (Pause) You can start a free fourteen-day GuideCX trial today or take a virtual tour at GuideCX.com. SaaSMQL helps high-ticket SaaS startups generate opportunities and recurring revenue from target accounts. Their Account-Based Marketing approach has proven to be effective at engaging decision-makers from Fortune one thousand companies. SaaSMQL's clients include Intellimize, Side, Travelbank, Alphonso, Alloy.ai, and many more. Book your intro call at SaaSMQL.com/SaaStr.

To help revenue and sales leaders navigate and identify ways to leverage cloud marketplaces, join Sapphire Ventures, Snowflake, Sumo Logic, and Crowdstrike to understand: How to successfully sell enterprise software through the major cloud marketplaces, what investments and alignment you need at your company need to be successful transacting on cloud marketplaces, and how to cultivate and enable a successful co-sell relationship with cloud marketplaces. Panel: Colleen Kapase, VP of WW Partner & Alliances, Snowflake Jessica Alexander, Senior Director Cloud Technology & OEM Partnerships, Crowdstrike Jabari Norton, VP WW Partner and Alliances, Sumo Logic Rico Mallozzi, Sr. Director of GTM Ops, Sapphire Ventures This episode is an excerpt from a session at SaaStr Scale. You can view the full video here: https://youtu.be/k4KEth7sNzw Transcript: https://www.saastr.com/saastr-podcast-414-how-to-leverage-the-cloud-giants-to-scale-to-100-million-arr-and-beyond/ Visit Dell.com/SaaStr for exclusive savings on Dell products and more information about the Dell for entrepreneurs program. Everything from Dell financial services to Dell rewards, Dell for Entrepreneurs wants to help your business run smarter through technology. Bandwidth makes it easy to add enterprise-grade voice calling, text messaging, and emergency calling to your platform all backed by the power of a fully owned and operated tier-one carrier network that gives you direct to carrier pricing with better quality, control, and insights that other API providers can't. See why the biggest brands in the world rely on bandwidth and sign up for a free trial at bandwidth.com/SaaStr.

Join four-time Founder and CEO Auren Hoffman as he breaks down how businesses can become the right model for explosive growth, emulate their strategy, and join the path to Unicorn potential in eight simple, hand-made steps. This episode is an excerpt of Auren's session at SaaStr Scale. You can view the full video here: https://youtu.be/d6tnt2a12ZY Transcript: https://www.saastr.com/saastr-podcast-413-with-safegraph-ceo-auren-hoffman-how-to-build-a-unicorn-in-8-simple-steps/ If you don't have a SOC 2 report, you aren't going to be able to sell to major customers. Secureframe helps startups get and maintain SOC 2 compliance in as little as two weeks. Join companies like Stream, Hasura, Benepass, and unlock more sales with Secureframe. SaaStr listeners get 10% off at secureframe.com/SaaStr.

2020 has been a wild ride, but Sales teams are still expected to deliver. Hear from 3 companies on how they delivered in a year riddled with challenges, and what those battle scars have taught them as they plan to turbocharge their sales in 2021. Walk away from this episode with the tactics and tips you and your Sales team need for the upcoming year. Pablo Dominguez, Operating Partner, Insight Partners Ellen Kindley, Chief Transformation Officer, Keyfactor Brooke Treseder, SVP, Revenue Operations, Checkout.com Gordana Vuckovic, EVP Global Sales & Partnerships, Contentstack Video and blog post: https://www.saastr.com/the-secrets-to-turbo-charging-sales-in-2021/

Tamar Yehoshua is the Chief Product Officer @ Slack, the company providing a place where people get work done, together. Prior to their direct listing in June 2019, Slack raised over $1.3Bn from the likes of Accel, Thrive, Softbank, Kleiner, IVP, T Rowe, GV, and a16z to name a few. As for Tamar, previously, Tamar was a Vice President at Google, holding product and engineering leadership roles on Google's most important products, including Search, Identity, and Privacy. Prior to that, she was the Vice President of Advertising Technologies at Amazon's A9. If that was not enough Tamar is also on the board of 2 public companies in the form of Yext and ServiceNow. In Today's Episode We Discuss: How Tamar made her way from Google and Amazon into the world of bottoms up SaaS with one of the leading companies of our generation, Slack? What were Tamar's biggest takeaways from her time with Amazon and Google? How did Jeff Bezos' approach to "the customer" impact Tamar's operating mindset? How does Tamar analyse customer responses to product changes? How important a role does the press play in customer's responses? How does Tamar think about effective product design today? How does Tamar structure the customer development process? What questions does she ask? What is she looking for? Where do many people go wrong with customer discovery? What channels can teams put in place to have this real-time dialogue with their customers? How would Tamar describe her management philosophy today? What have been some of Tamar's biggest lessons on giving effective feedback? How should it be structured? When should it be given? To what extent does Tamar agree with "radical candour"? Where do many go wrong in giving their feedback? Tamar's 60 Second SaaStr: The most challenging element of Tamar's role with Slack? What would Tamar most like to change about the SaaS industry? What moment in Tamar's life has served as an inflection point and changed the way she thinks? Read the full transcript on our blog: https://www.saastr.com/saastr-podcast-411-with-slack-chief-product-officer-tamar-yehoshua/ If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin Harry Stebbings SaaStr

In today's SaaStr insider episode SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin catches up with Todd McKinnon, CEO and co-founder of Okta. Together they discuss what it takes to build, maintain and grow a high-performance organization. Video and blog post: https://www.saastr.com/10-learnings-from-talking-with-todd-mckinnon-ceo-of-okta/