

The SaaS Revolution Show
The SaaS Revolution Show, Alex Theuma
The SaaS Revolution Show, hosted by Alex Theuma, brings you insights and tactics from the greatest SaaS minds in Europe and across the world. Revolutionary founders, executives, and investors openly share wisdom on attracting and keeping customers, growing companies in unlikely places, scaling globally, successfully reaching the SaaS high skies, and never giving up. The SaaS Revolution Show is brought to you by SaaStock, the only media, membership and events business that focuses on SaaS founders scaling to $10mill ARR.
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Feb 6, 2020 • 21min
Can software make work feel less like work? with Rahul Vohra, Superhuman
Rahul Vohra, founder and CEO of Superhuman, is this week’s guest on The SaaS Revolution Show. At the time of recording, Superhuman had over 250,000 people on its wait list. The secret of their success?
Game design.
Rahul talks about how most of us treat emails as 'work', but at Superhuman they asked one important question: how can we make software feel less like work and more like play? Listen to learn how they use game design in all areas of their product design - and how other startups can benefit from learning more about the theory of game design.
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Jan 30, 2020 • 24min
The Power of Events for Growing SaaS Startups with Jói Sigurdsson, CrankWheel
Jói Sigurdsson, founder and CEO of CrankWheel, is this week’s guest on The SaaS Revolution Show. Events have always been an important customer acquisition channel for CrankWheel, and Jói talks about why other SaaS startups should add events into their sales and marketing strategy.
Additionally, CrankWheel was the winner of the Startup Pitch Competition at SaaStock 2019, and crowned the Best SaaS Startup of 2019. Jói shares his experience of the Startup Pitch Competition, and how CrankWheel has benefited from taking part.
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Jan 23, 2020 • 23min
The Unicorn Hiring Trajectory with Maddy Cross, Notion Capital
Maddy Cross, Talent Director at Notion Capital, is this week’s guest on The SaaS Revolution Show. She talks about Notion's recent research report: The Unicorn Hiring Trajectory. This looks into the hiring trends of SaaS unicorns compared with other high-performing (but not unicorn) businesses.
When Notion invests in a startup, 80% of that capital goes on headcount - growing the team. But how do the choices you make - when to hire, who to hire - affect the growth trajectory of your company?
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Jan 16, 2020 • 18min
How to retain top talent with Dan Martell
Dan Martell, five-time SaaS founder and founder of SaaS Academy, talks retaining top talent on this week's episode of The SaaS Revolution Show. This episode was his keynote session from SaaStock West Coast 2019.
He looks at the main reasons employees leave companies, and gives SaaS founders a strategy for keeping a pulse on your team so there's no surprise departures.
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Jan 9, 2020 • 21min
Becoming a customer success-focused startup with David Roldan, Google Cloud
This week David Roldan, Head of Venture Capital & Startup Business Development - Europe, Google Cloud, is chatting to Alex Theuma on the SaaS Revolution Show, live from Slush 2019.
Their conversation focused on David’s passion: Customer Success. David offered practical tips to help early-stage startups set themselves up as a customer-success-focused organisation - even before making a single CS hire. They also discussed the areas of a business that are impacted by customer success, and how the discipline differs in Europe compared with the USA.
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Dec 19, 2019 • 28min
How your core metrics shift as your company grows with Tina Sharkey, co-founder of Brandless
This week Tina Sharkey, co-founder of Brandless, is chatting to Alex Theuma on the SaaS Revolution Show, live from Slush 2019.
They discussed Brandless’ journey to date, including their expansion from a direct-to-consumer model to incorporating a physical retail presence. They also discussed the importance of identifying and communicating your core metrics – and how these have changed as Brandless has grown. This is especially important for an early, growing team – it’s essential that everyone knows the key metric by which you’re measuring growth – and how their contribution aligns with that. Tina offered some great practical advice for founders on telling your company’s story, and measuring success.
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🌎 SaaStock Local: Monthly meet-ups in cities all around the world,
bringing together SaaS enthusiasts and experts to discuss the most
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Dec 12, 2019 • 26min
Why do we quit our jobs with Phil Chambers, CEO of Peakon
This week Phil Chambers, CEO and co-founder of Peakon, is chatting to Alex Theuma on the SaaS Revolution Show, live from Slush 2019.
They discuss Peakon's latest report looking at why people leave their jobs. They discuss trends and common themes in employee attrition, the importance of your onboarding process, and the times and reasons when employees are most at-risk of leaving your company. Phil shares some of his lessons in managing people, running distributed teams across multiple regions, and how he keeps healthy and balanced as founder and CEO.
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🌎 SaaStock Local: Monthly meet-ups in cities all around the world,
bringing together SaaS enthusiasts and experts to discuss the most
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Dec 5, 2019 • 31min
Lessons from scaling Europe’s fastest-growing SaaS company with Avi Meir, CEO of Travelperk
This week Avi Meir, CEO and co-founder of Travelperk, is chatting to Alex Theuma on the SaaS Revolution Show, live from Slush 2019.
They discuss Travelperk’s journey to becoming the fastest-growing SaaS company in Europe. Avi shares his insights on building and scaling company culture, and how to maintain that as you scale into new regions. He offers practical advice about how to prepare your company to scale – both in terms of headcount and into new countries and regions.
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🌎 SaaStock Local: Monthly meet-ups in cities all around the world,
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Nov 28, 2019 • 25min
The Bumpy Road to Product-Market Fit with Peter Reinhardt, CEO of Segment
This week Peter Reinhardt, CEO and Co-founder of Segment, is chatting to Alex Theuma on the SaaS Revolution Show, live at Slush 2019.
They discuss the pivots and challenges Segment faced finding product-market fit - from Segment's origins as a classroom learning tool to where it is today. As well as focusing on Segment's journey to product-market fit, Peter and Alex also cover how Segment approached expanding into new regions.
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helping others (https://www.saastock.com/founder-membership/)
🌎 SaaStock Local: Monthly meet-ups in cities all around the world,
bringing together SaaS enthusiasts and experts to discuss the most
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Nov 21, 2019 • 25min
Revenue Operations with Jason Reichl, CEO of Go Nimbly
This week Jason Reichl, CEO of Go Nimbly, is chatting to Alex Theuma on the SaaS Revolution Show.
Their conversation focused on revenue operations: how Go Nimbly is working to champion the operators in businesses - the people who influence so much revenue, but never get recognised for the role they play. Go Nimbly is defining the revenue operations category, and demonstrating how revenue ops offers real, tangible business benefits.
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🤝 SaaStock Founder Membership: A private members group of B2B SaaS
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helping others (https://www.saastock.com/founder-membership/)
🌎 SaaStock Local: Monthly meet-ups in cities all around the world,
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