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Shipping Enterprise AI Agents with the CPOs of Rubrik, Glean, and Harvey
- ▶ 12:04 Anique Drumright We're in Fortune 500.
- ▶ 25:26 Chief Product Officer, Rubrik We work with a lot of, like, GSIs and other kinds of partners who are delivering a larger program, especially to, you know, Fortune, 2000 companies.
The Enterprise AI Reality Check: From Dashboard Graveyards to 30-Day Migrations with Databricks
- ▶ 0:53 Jason Lemkin 50% of the Fortune 500? 3 times in the scene
AI and Cybersecurity: Scaling Rubrik to a Billion Dollar Enterprise with Rubrik's Co-Founder and CTO
- ▶ 8:30 Arvind Nithrakashyap Because if, if you lose, if you miss a large fortune, 500 customer, it may be a hundred K deal down the road.
From $1M to $3B ARR: Databricks CRO Ron Gabrisko on Scaling a Revenue Rocket Ship
Adding AI to SaaS: Inside the AI Product Strategies of Figma, Cloudflare, GitHub and Ramp
- ▶ 10:03 Dani Grant A third of the Fortune 500 uses them.
5 Things That Are Working and 5 Things That Aren’t in B2B SaaS AI with Ironclad's CEO and a16z
- ▶ 18:14 Seema Amble That said, I think I talked to a finance team at a fortune, 500 company that you guys all probably know.
How to Successfully Bring AI Products to Market at Scale with GitHub’s CRO
- ▶ 0:55 Elizabeth Pemeril We have a hundred million users on the platform, 90% of the fortune 100.
How to Hire a Great VP of Sales Today with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 19:35 Jason Lemkin Not because he's not smart or a good person, but he could not go in front of a fortune, 500 CTO and talk API and security with the fortune. 2 times in the scene
From 0-50,000 Customers: How to Build a GenAI Company for the Enterprise with Synthesia's CEO
- ▶ 26:04 Philippe Botteri So it's been very interesting to see that Synthesia managed to develop a large footprint with the Fortune 2000. 3 times in the scene
2025 State of SaaS: Trends and Predictions with SaaStr CEO and Founder, Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 10:08 Jason Lemkin Every company out there, all the Fortune 500 and Global 2000, they seem to work just fine.
What It Really Takes to Be Successful in Enterprise SaaS Sales with Christian Smith, CRO of Splunk
What's New at WordPress with Matt Mullenweg, CEO of Automattic and Co-Founder of WordPress
- ▶ 12:09 Matt Mullenweg It's not 10, twelve billion, but that means that when you like rank these companies, we don't show up in the fortune 500 or anything like that.
The 7 Biggest Mistakes CMOs Make (And How to Avoid Them) with the CMOs of Databricks, Zoom, and Okta
- ▶ 7:37 Ryan Carlson And we were organizing a dinner between our CEO and CEOs of fortune, 500 companies.
Who Will Win the Go-To-Market AI Race? with Stage 2 Capital Co-founder Mark Roberge
- ▶ 32:17 Mark Roberge Of the fortune, 500 companies that were on that list in 1950, 90% are no longer on the list. 2 times in the scene
2024 SaaS Landscape: Why 2024 Could be Pretty Darn Good for SaaS IPOs with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 2:08 Jason Lemkin Fortune 500 company, or tech company as a VP, as I have, at least, at least for a little more than a year.
Scaling a B2B Leader from $0 to $1B+ ARR: Insights from UiPath's CEO and Founder Daniel Dines
- ▶ 13:40 Philippe Botteri Uh, today it's top of mind for all the Fortune 500 CIOs.
Top 10 Mistakes Founders Make with Series A with Black Mangroves, Square Peg, Vertex, and GGV
- ▶ 9:38 Carmen Yuen So you can have successful SaaS companies, I mean, the Fortune 100 shows you enough, um, that can come from different verticals.
CRO Confidential: Sales Recruitment and Hiring Managers With Ben Braverman
- ▶ 36:13 Ben Braverman Like, if you were Nike, if you were any of these, any major Fortune 100, you literally didn't know where your stuff was,
3 Lessons from Building a Marketing Engine to Grow Pipeline from Millions to Billions | Samsara CMO
- ▶ 31:07 Sarah Patterson And so as you start to bring them on board, um, I often say to people, it's not like another fortune 10 company pops up overnight.
Why Choosing Your First Customers Matters More Than You Think | Pigment Co-Founder Eléonore Crespo
- ▶ 19:15 Eléonore Crespo And that's very interesting for them, by the way, because obviously they are young companies that want to grow and become the next Fortune 500.
The Secrets to Building Your Marketing Engine To Drive Scale with Airtable CMO Archana Agrawal
- ▶ 2:12 Archana Agrawal We started from scratch, but we also operate at scale, serving over 300,000 organizations of all shapes and sizes, including 80% of the Fortune 100.
Building a Successful Customer Advisory Board in the Enterprise | Mapistry VP of Customer Experience
- ▶ 21:22 Maya Colato Ah, on the right hand side is a screenshot of an RFP from a recent Fortune 500, ah, deal, and in section 6.8, they asked how, how they can actively voice, participate, and influence the products that they were, ah, that they might buy.
How Hybrid is Working in Practice: What the Data Shows | Raise Comm. Real Estate CEO + President
- ▶ 3:08 unnamed speaker Large cross-section of companies from early-stage startups to Fortune 100 companies, and in helping them with their RTO, return to office planning, um, we've come to find that it's essentially these four strategies that are being employed…
4 Ways to Get to $10 Billion by Working Async (Without Burning Out) with Loom CEO Joe Thomas
- ▶ 6:16 Joe Thomas They are constantly on top startups list of Fortune and Quartz, Fasco, they actually just were on LinkedIn's top startups for twenty-twenty-one last week when it rolled out, so they're a great place to start in terms of what are they doing?
Scaling Your Startup 10x From $20M to $200M with Sapphire, Lightspeed, TripActions, and 6Sense
- ▶ 18:27 Carlos Delatorre We've quadrupled the number of Fortune, 500 customers we have during COVID, and, and that just doesn't happen.
Lessons Learned Scaling with Canva's CMO Zach Kitschke and SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 41:06 Zach Kitschke And we're seeing that with, you know, things like fortune, 500 organizations as well, where, um, you know, many of the fortune 500 will have thousands of, um, you know, individual users or small teams on the platform.
Reaccelerating Growth at Scale with Box's CRO Mark Wayland and SaaStr CEO and Founder, Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 12:09 Mark Wayland Uh, we have about a little over a 100,000 customers and about 67% of the Fortune 500, and we are used for, we are used by companies in really all industries of all sizes all around the world, but organizations that have highly sensitive…
Adding Outbound Sales & Marketing to a Product-Led Growth Engine Freshworks, Twilio, 1Password, Coda
- ▶ 26:04 Carrie-Lou Dietrich I mean, if it's a fortune 500 high ranking person that's doing the product qualified, then salesperson should call them.
The 2021 State of Marketing Technology with Marqeta CMO, Vidya Peters | SaaStr Software Community
- ▶ 14:04 Vidya Peters So what percentage of that was tier one business coverage and by tier one, we think of the wall street journal or fortune where the outlets that are most relevant to you in your space.
Hyperscaling At Scale with PagerDuty's CEO, Jennifer Tejada | SaaStr Software Community
- ▶ 0:44 Jennifer Tejada Today, we drive the digital operations of more than 60 of the Fortune 100, and over 40% of the Fortune 500.
- ▶ 0:44 Jennifer Tejada Today, we drive the digital operations of more than 60 of the Fortune 100, and over 40% of the Fortune 500.
- ▶ 5:16 Jennifer Tejada Segments and wanting to move into large enterprise and had a great early lead, uh, in our efforts there, but we really felt like we were quite well, well known with the developer community, but not so well known in central IT in the…
- ▶ 5:16 Jennifer Tejada Segments and wanting to move into large enterprise and had a great early lead, uh, in our efforts there, but we really felt like we were quite well, well known with the developer community, but not so well known in central IT in the…
- ▶ 6:44 Jennifer Tejada One of the Fortune journalists actually wrote an article about Pagey, and Pagey now has their own reputation to manage.
- ▶ 16:56 Jennifer Tejada And our own metal with the largest enterprises in the world, and PagerDuty now serves more than 65 of the Fortune 100, and more than 45% of the Fortune 500.
- ▶ 16:56 Jennifer Tejada And our own metal with the largest enterprises in the world, and PagerDuty now serves more than 65 of the Fortune 100, and more than 45% of the Fortune 500.
Brian Halligan, CEO and Co-Founder at HubSpot: The Secrets to $1B ARR ... And Beyond!
- ▶ 4:03 Brian Halligan Everyone else in the world still are big investors like, well, when are you going to go sell to the fortune 500? 3 times in the scene
The Current State of SaaS Companies, Subscriptions, and Retention in 2021 | ProfitWell Founder & CEO
- ▶ 2:58 Patrick Campbell We actually have about a quarter of the entire subscription and SAS market, um, using the product, everything from Johnny and Jane startups, all the way up to fortune, 500, um, you know, companies.
Secrets to Turbo Charging Sales in 2021 with Keyfactor, Checkout.com Contentstack & Insight Partners
- ▶ 23:27 Ellen Kinley They're in the fortune, and so for us, uh, the channel strategies is hugely important.
How to Hire a Great First VP of Sales
- ▶ 15:38 Jason Lemkin I was a VP in the Fortune 500 of Adobe.
On Launching a Second Product with Dharmesh Shah, CTO / Co-Founder HubSpot
- ▶ 14:01 Dharmesh Shah Now, in the Fortune 1000 market, that's not that big a deal.
7 Key Tips & Tricks to Getting More Revenue per AE with Salesloft, Zoom and Fireeye
- ▶ 14:56 Christina Foley It was a fortune 100.
Taking Care Of Your Team and Your Customers with Slack | SaaStr Software Community
- ▶ 8:21 Stewart Butterfield Um, there's only 500 companies in the fortune 500. 2 times in the scene
Matching Price to Value: 3 Lessons in Monetization from Menlo Ventures
- ▶ 30:18 Menlo Ventures Investor This might be the engineering team from a Fortune 500 company that's just kicking the tires, trying out Slack, and deciding whether it's something that should be rolled out company-wide.
"7 Tips and Tricks to having happy customers at Scale" New Relic EVP, Roger Scott
- ▶ 4:57 Roger Scott Uh, if you look today, over 50% of the Fortune 100 would now use our products and use it quite extensively.
"Our best and worst marketing experiments" Lucidchart Co-Founder and CEO Karl Sun
From Freemium to Enterprise with Slack
- ▶ 14:52 Danny Herzberg You might see free teams popping up all over a fortune 100 company.
- ▶ 17:15 Danny Herzberg So it was almost like an extension of customer support and they would talk to a dentist office and the CIO of a fortune 100 company in the same day. 3 times in the scene
Lessons from New Relic: Five Critical Steps to Scaling Enterprise
- ▶ 1:23 Erica Schultz Today we have more than 17,000 customers, um, including 50% of the Fortune 100,
- ▶ 10:54 Erica Schultz CIO of a Fortune 100 company, and the next minute I was rewriting the, the order form, um, because we, you know, got some customer feedback that our order form was confusing, and we needed to kind of, you know, revise it in real time, and…
- ▶ 15:02 Erica Schultz Um, we made a mistake once when, uh, we were competing for a Fortune 100, um, company's business, and we were asking the customer about his technology environment, and he kind of hung his head and he said, oh, he said, don't judge me.
The Things Nobody Tells You About An $8B Acquisition with Ryan Smith from Qualtrics
- ▶ 7:32 Ryan Smith You know, I've been on CNBC 13 times, been in Forbes, Fortune, you name it.
Going Upmarket, How To Keep Growing When Your Buyer Is No Longer Your User
- ▶ 23:28 Vas Natarajan And you're starting to see maybe some more Fortune 500 repeatability. 2 times in the scene
The Road to Building a 100 Year Company
- ▶ 10:04 Sanjay Beri We sell to the Fortune 5000, and so on.
- ▶ 16:52 Mamoun Hamid Um, you're, you know, mostly the opposite, which is your top-down, you know, traditional large enterprise sale, Fortune 5000.
- ▶ 19:46 Mamoun Hamid So, you mentioned this to me earlier, um, I'm not sure if I'm supposed to share this, but, uh, you said, uh, you have 25% of the Fortune 100?
- ▶ 25:26 Sanjay Beri 506 hundred people, we have a fortune 125% of them.
- ▶ 26:28 Sanjay Beri Ok, they're adopted by 50, 60, 70% of the Fortune 500.
SaaStrPRO AMA with Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 16:56 Jason Lemkin When I worked at Adobe, and I was a VP in the Fortune 500, I guarantee you they didn't pay 25% of the first year ACV on deals, ok?
Three Non Obvious Lessons Learned Selling to SMBs with Xero and Friends
- ▶ 5:16 Matt Rissell Like massive fortune 100 companies, they can't implement systems that do everything, and it's a disaster, right?
Aaron Levie (Box): The First $250m in ARR
- ▶ 42:38 Aaron Levie And so we want to make sure that we're in, you know, essentially all of the Fortune 500. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:59 Aaron Levie Um, you know, there's no such thing as the Fortune 500, right? 2 times in the scene