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How to Grow Revenue Faster in the Second Half of 2023 with Founders Fund
Why You're Unfundable Today: The Cold, Hard Truths About SaaS Part 2 with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 44:41 Jason Lemkin You can just Google this.
The Cold, Hard Truths About SaaS In 2023: Part 1 AMA with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 15:03 unnamed speaker Um, I'm like a founder that's bootstrapped, and I wondered, like, you know, often when you're Googling, like, founder bootstraps, you can kind of get different playbooks that are written in 2016, 18, even 19.
How To Boost Your Net Retention Revenue (NRR) to Over 140% with Insider's CEO and CMO
- ▶ 1:45 Merve Nazlioglu Like, we didn't actually compile things from, you know, Google or ChatGPT for you today.
From 2 Weeks of Runway to $1B Acquisition: The Founder Playbook with Loom's CEO and Co-Founder
- ▶ 4:53 Joe Thomas We were going to get product experts like you all in this room, or a designer from Google, a product manager from Facebook, basically anybody from Fang, and then we were going to pair them up with companies on the other side, whether it's…
- ▶ 11:04 Joe Thomas We also believe it'll be as big and important as synchronous texts like Slack or asynchronous text like Docs and Sheets and Slides.
- ▶ 11:04 Joe Thomas We also believe it'll be as big and important as synchronous texts like Slack or asynchronous text like Docs and Sheets and Slides.
Scaling to $100M ARR: The Top 10 Mistakes to Avoid From LaunchDarkly Co-Founder Edith Harbaugh
- ▶ 12:08 Edith Harbaugh What they really want to work at is Google. 2 times in the scene
VC AMA with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin and Black Mangroves MD Arnaud Bonzom at SaaStr APAC 2023
- ▶ 4:13 Arnaud Bonzom But I'm seeing now, like, people that are building their second or third company here, even if one of them got an exit with Google here in, in Singapore, um, they're only raising one, 1.5 million at an eight to ten million valuation, where…
- ▶ 6:26 Arnaud Bonzom Um, Google was doing it before for their own website. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:21 Jason Lemkin How can you get from two million to two hundred million in 10 years?
- ▶ 35:14 Jason Lemkin Look, we want to build the next, whatever, Google, but what happens if in a couple years we sell the company for a hundred million?
CRO Confidential: 3 Secrets For Early-Stage Startups To Acquire Customers | CoSell.io Co-Founder
- ▶ 6:09 Brendon Cassidy So it's, we've, we have software, we have this sort of Chrome extension, right?
- ▶ 24:06 Brendon Cassidy And we, you know, everything we did was talk about Google.
SaaStr CRO Confidential: Sam Blond + Omni Founder Colin Zima on the Power of Leveraging Your Network
- ▶ 3:33 Colin Zima So this was a big BI company that got acquired by Google for 3 times in the scene
SaaStr CRO Confidential: Howard Lerman, Founder & CEO @ Roam | Founder-led Sales
- ▶ 39:06 Howard Lerman We don't have like a rigid formal experimentation process like Google.
Gainsight CEO Nick Mehta: My Top 10 Mistakes In 10 Years (LIVE SaaStr Workshop Wednesday)
- ▶ 51:44 Nick Mehta I'd encourage you to go to Google and watch the pulse, 20, 14 keynote.
Customer Marketing Strategies Guaranteed to Grow Your Business with Bitly CMO Tara Robertson
- ▶ 1:53 Tara Robertson If you look at marketing in general, and you go in Google demand chat, you will find all the articles, all the books, all of the information on how to do it.
- ▶ 6:44 Tara Robertson We're in Google Analytics, we're looking at all of our data, and we're looking at what our customers are doing.
Being a Rebel to Build a Movement: Non-Traditional Approaches to Scale | DoNotPay CEO Joshua Browder
- ▶ 17:25 Joshua Browder And so we began writing these SEO articles, um, and out of luck, or, or because they were good content, uh, Google started ranking them for free. 3 times in the scene
CRO Confidential: Guild Education SVP, Go To Market Strategy, Operations & Enablement Cherishma Shah
- ▶ 5:48 Sam Blond You would probably do it better justice by describing, but you were at Google for a number of years, which is interesting because Google is such a large company compared to Brex prior to you joined, but it seemed that that mapped, um, far… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:34 Sam Blond And, and I wouldn't have suspected this until working with you, um, in your, uh, uh, like, I don't know, poster child or something like that, um, as evidence of this coming from Google, which I, I think like I would have a bit of an…
- ▶ 38:20 Cherishma Shah So if you see people are saying, Hey, let's just continue to work out of Google sheets or whatever tool that you use right now, and then we'll see if this sits and then I'm going to put it in the system.
- ▶ 50:18 Cherishma Shah Then I think this, I can say for Google cloud, we created, uh, a, a very clear named account strategy and a segment, right?
The Secrets to Building a Global Platform and Ecosystem | Xero Global CSO Damien Tampling
- ▶ 3:34 Damien Tampling Now you'll hear of some of these legendary processes in large companies like the Googles and others in the world, but I think hiring people and getting the right people and thinking about why they fit within your culture and what you're…
What's Holding Up Buyers?: Top Obstacles to Making Software Decisions with G2's VP - Asia Pacific
- ▶ 28:28 Chris Perrine Ultimately for us, we want to make it a more Google-like experience, and shame on me saying what everyone's been talking about the last couple of months, chat GPT type experience, where you're really looking at
SaaStr APAC AMA with Jason Lemkin, SaaStr CEO
- ▶ 11:39 Jason Lemkin AMD, Microsoft, Google, who am I missing?
- ▶ 17:54 Jason Lemkin Um, and the reason we did it, I had to push the team to do it as a CEO, the team didn't want to do it, they didn't see it, but when I started meeting with our top customers, when I started, we had a lot of tech customers back in the day,…
Scaling a SaaS Sales Team While Building Culture with Figma's VP of Sales, Scott Pugh
- ▶ 24:48 Scott Pugh And at Mixpanel, we, every QBR, we used to actually give, do it, put out a survey, just a Google Sheets, Google, um, where people would vote, ah, across four categories, the, the rookie of the quarter, the cross-functional partner, silent…
Lessons Learned in Scaling Your Team & Revenue from $1M ARR to $1B+ | Cloudflare CRO Chris Merritt
- ▶ 39:04 Chris Merritt I would say that our international pull, so we try to invest behind demand, and when our service, like, our services for developers, fingers on keyboards, practitioners, network engineers, security professionals, and if, if English was,…
Why You Want to Develop Product Painkillers, Not Vitamins | DigitalOcean CPO Gabe Monroy
- ▶ 24:32 Gabe Monroy Where you leverage technology like design sprints, you know, I, I don't know how many of you are familiar with the concept of design sprints that come out of Google, or the concept of a customer driven playbook that has come out of… 2 times in the scene
Scaling for the Enterprise: Top 5 Lessons on the Upmarket Journey with @AirtableApp CEO Howie Liu
SaaStr CRO Confidential: Founders Fund Partner Sam Blond + Rippling VP Sales Matt Plank
- ▶ 4:22 Matt Plank Um, I remember the first day he handed over like a Google sheet,
- ▶ 20:16 Matt Plank Um, and the last thing I think that was actually a huge part of our, a huge part of our, uh, thinking and mindshare was like, how do we like evade, you know, Google spam filters, like sitting around with persona, our co-founder and Parker,… 2 times in the scene
How Top CMOs Drive Growth in the Age of the Self-Serve Buyer | Klaviyo, Talkdesk, SmartBear CMOs
- ▶ 43:34 Vinay Bhagat Besides, uh, besides AdWords, have you found another channel to generate leads that is very, very efficient?
SaaStr CRO Confidential: Founders Fund Partner Sam Blond + Divvy CRO Sterling Snow
- ▶ 27:52 Sterling Snow You just have to find those opportunities, though, because it doesn't exist in just plugging in money in Google or LinkedIn SEM.
Gusto Co-Founder Josh Reeves: How Focusing on Delivering Customer Value Generates Business Value
- ▶ 11:40 Josh Reeves If you haven't heard that term before, you can just Google it.
What It Takes to Forge Your Own Category with Braze Co-Founder and CEO Bill Magnuson
- ▶ 3:09 Bill Magnuson I had actually worked at Google right at the launch of Android.
- ▶ 15:56 Bill Magnuson I mentioned that I worked at Google before we started the company and that early exposure to Android was important for my conviction in starting Braze.
The Secrets to Scaling with HubSpot's Founders Dharmesh Shah and Brian Halligan and SaaStr's CEO
- ▶ 11:20 Brian Halligan You need to start thinking about, and he started showing us benchmarks relative to companies like Google, like LinkedIn, and it's more like five to one, 10 to one.
Everything that Breaks on the Way to $1B ARR with @mailchimp Co-Founder Ben Chestnut
- ▶ 27:43 Ben Chestnut Neil Bainton was our first COO, and he was sort of, at that time, our adult supervision, like Eric Schmidt, uh, managing Larry Page and Sergey at Google, and he was their adult supervision, and Neil was my adult supervision, and he was an…
- ▶ 44:42 Jason Lemkin You can find a couple missionaries, including engineers that will, not, not all of them, like, I mean, Google pays better, Intuit pays better, but there are,
Live from SaaStr Annual 2022: AMA with SaaStr's CEO
- ▶ 5:28 Jason Lemkin We did a Google sheet.
10 Lessons Learned Along the Path to $100M ARR | UserZoom's CEO and CMO | SaaStr Software Community
- ▶ 0:11 Sophie Chesters Couple of big companies, Medallia, Google, and in addition to helping users who scale to a hundred million ARR, which we're nearly there, um, I've also, um, advised and mentored some very early stage start-ups, which was a huge ton of fun…
- ▶ 13:28 Sophie Chesters Now, I'm going to give you the end of the story, and, you know, luckily, Alfonso decided to take the UX researcher persona, which was the PayPal option, and, you know, built, I believe, 79 of those features, and that enabled the team to go…
- ▶ 19:38 Alfonso de la Nuez Um, you know, the customers were getting true value, and they were getting exposed to what they could do, and then I remember it was Google that came along and said, hey guys, you're really good consultants or researchers, or, you know,…
- ▶ 43:49 Alfonso de la Nuez Sophie comes from Medallia and from Google.
- ▶ 43:52 Alfonso de la Nuez And so, back to my point about going from an entrepreneur to a CEO and hired a great talent, you know, I never dreamed that I would have a professional like Sophie that has done, uh, eight years at Google Cloud or Google Analytics.
- ▶ 43:52 Alfonso de la Nuez And so, back to my point about going from an entrepreneur to a CEO and hired a great talent, you know, I never dreamed that I would have a professional like Sophie that has done, uh, eight years at Google Cloud or Google Analytics.
Scaling From $10M-$100M ARR: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly with Showpad Co-Founder Pieterjan Bouten
- ▶ 38:46 Pieterjan Bouten There's a good amount of work collaboration that we already do over Slack or over, I would say it's more Google Docs and, and Google Slides where we collaborate a lot.
The Answers To Scaling, Hiring, And Everything Else: An AMA With Saastr Founder & Ceo Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 13:52 Jason Lemkin AWS, Azure, like, I forget, I'm gonna get the numbers wrong, I think Amazon has 10,000 open positions out in AWS, I think Azure's like 7000 Google, um, and so,
- ▶ 22:13 Jason Lemkin Now, the old school tech companies, the Apples, Googles that are in the Bay Area, even 2 times in the scene
Why Choosing Your First Customers Matters More Than You Think | Pigment Co-Founder Eléonore Crespo
- ▶ 20:09 Eléonore Crespo Uh, I can give you concrete examples, but, uh, we built a connector to Gsheet thanks to, uh, the team at Deliveroo.
16 Ways to Level Up in 2022 with SaaStr Founder and CEO Jason Lemkin | SaaStr Software Community
- ▶ 4:47 Jason Lemkin We've talked, you can check on YouTube and Google, Sam Blond, who's now CRO of Brex.
- ▶ 27:40 Jason Lemkin Well, you know, it's Google for a hundred K, ok? 4 times in the scene
Marketing Secrets to Hypergrowth from Building Elastic, Zuora, and Segment
- ▶ 33:35 Jeff (Yosh) Uh, we're also focused on the, the high performing blogs and high performing kind of assets on our website, uh, and really looking across the board around how do we get featured in a Google snippet, right? 2 times in the scene
The Office is Back!! But What Will It Be Like? Jason Lemkin & Justin Bedecarre of Raise.Work
- ▶ 13:35 Justin Bedecarre Um, you know, but from the headlines to like the reality, uh, you know, even companies as big as, you know, Google and Meta are expecting the vast majority of their employees to come at least a few days a week.
- ▶ 22:08 Justin Bedecarre Um, we, uh, our data shows 18.4 million square feet of leases by big tech, Amazon, you know, um, uh, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Microsoft, et cetera. 2 times in the scene
Building Marketing Channels Slowly to Achieve Massive Scale with Datadog CMO Alex Rosemblat
- ▶ 5:10 Alex Rosemblat You can come up with a great press release, get customer quotes, get customers to, to speak on your behalf to a reporter, engage a reporter, have your briefing with them, and then some news for a third party company, maybe Apple, maybe…
- ▶ 9:35 Alex Rosemblat Uh, anyone here that's run, like, a Twitter campaign or a Google AdWords campaign, it's super easy if you set things pretty broadly to be flooded with attention.
- ▶ 22:04 Alex Rosemblat One important thing to note is, you know, I think that early on I thought, hey, once I get Google AdWords working great, and I've got a great, you know, baseline, I can just take the day off. 2 times in the scene
How To Innovate Faster with Community: Insights From GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij
- ▶ 28:33 Sid Sijbrandij They are at AWS, GCP, and Azure, and we can, we expect that will continue to grow.
Picking the Perfect Pricing Model that Fits Your App and More with HackerOne's CEO Marten Mickos
- ▶ 5:25 Mårten Mickos That's a pricing model that was impossible for Sun to even consider, and now the rest is history, and everybody is, practically everybody is running on the AWS cloud, some running on Microsoft and Google and a few others, but, but with…
$100 Million ARR Pivot: From Platform Product to Vertical Apps With Treasure Data CEO Kazuki Ohta
- ▶ 3:31 Kazuki Ohta And Hadoop was open sourced by Yahoo, but the software itself is really, really modeled after how Google is processing large amount of the data.
- ▶ 13:35 Kazuki Ohta And the biggest threat we had at that time also was, uh, Amazon, Google, Microsoft are trying to commoditize everything from the infrastructure layer. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:04 Kazuki Ohta And the Google released a new product called BigQuery, which is the cloud-based data processing engine.
- ▶ 18:11 Kazuki Ohta The second is raising a lot of money, and then fighting against Amazon and Google with the performance per price. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:52 Kazuki Ohta And there were 20 to 30 vendors in it, but I really, really liked it because there's no Amazon and Google here. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:37 Kazuki Ohta But again, after fighting with Amazon, Google, Microsoft, we feel like, okay, it's, uh,
- ▶ 38:13 Kazuki Ohta Why did you decide to go to one, build more stocks and going into application instead of battling Amazon and Google? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:24 Kazuki Ohta So what we have done is we built some connectors such as Redshift connector or BigQuery connector so that you can still keep using treasure data. 2 times in the scene
Ask Me Anything About Customer Success with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin and ChurnZero CEO You Mon Tsang
- ▶ 18:00 Jason Lemkin I don't have that person at Qualcomm or Google or someone working for me.
The Future of AI, Open Source, and Enterprise SaaS with Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi
- ▶ 8:51 Ali Ghodsi It's, there's, there's tough competition for, you know, good engineers from Google, Facebook, and these companies.
- ▶ 10:55 Ali Ghodsi Google. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:51 Ali Ghodsi That's what Google, Facebook, Airbnb, Twitter, and these guys did really well. 3 times in the scene
The RevTech Stack Playbook:Going from $1M to $100M with SalesLoft's CMO Sydney Sloan
- ▶ 6:47 Sydney Sloan Um, I know I have Google Cloud, I have Netflix, I've got, I don't know, three 99 for the New York Times, my son has all, like, all of a sudden, my apps bill, aka Shadow IT, is more than my internet bill.
Scaling a Successful SaaS Sales Team w/ 20VC Founder Harry Stebbings and SaaStr Founder Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 20:17 Jason Lemkin Google trusts him, whoever trusts him.
- ▶ 31:14 Jason Lemkin So if you plug that into a Google Sheet, you're gonna see that they can write off three or four at the bottom.
The Most Common SaaS Sales Potholes and How to Avoid Them with Mark Roberge, HubSpot's ex-CRO
- ▶ 6:24 Mark Roberge Imagine if five rockstar engineers from right around the corner, maybe they're at Google or something, quit their jobs, raised ten million dollars from Sequoia, which is happening all the time right now, and they reverse engineer your… 3 times in the scene
The Highs and Lows of Fundraising from Founders That Have Raised $1B w/ Calendly, Coda, LaunchDarkly
- ▶ 12:22 Shishir Mehrotra You know, our category, I think there's only so many blinking cursors that people will pick, and you have to be ahead of that, uh, and we can't, you know, so you have to invest faster, or as fast as the rest of the market is moving on it,…
- ▶ 49:31 Shishir Mehrotra I said, number one thing, don't show up in the recruiting folder. 2 times in the scene
Demystifying the Unicorn Buzz with the CEOs of Calendly, Algolia, and Contentful
- ▶ 12:34 Steve Sloan Certainly if, if you're Google, you can have one product.
The 2021 State of Marketing Technology with Marqeta CMO, Vidya Peters | SaaStr Software Community
- ▶ 3:40 Vidya Peters Who is actually searching into Google and, and talking about finding a solution for a problem that your product is the answer for?
- ▶ 28:04 Vidya Peters It seems to be, uh, we are in a land of monopolies and, um, the cost of Google sourced, uh, leads is only skyrocketing because they're able to, there's, uh, pretty much the, the lion's share of the traffic lies on Google.
Beyond Product-led Growth: 7 Lessons Learned in Product-Led Scaling with Dropbox GM Rachel Wolan
- ▶ 12:21 Rachel Wolan But what we had learned is that Google was getting rid of cookies.
- ▶ 14:57 Rachel Wolan Data scientists were able to use the tools they were already used to, like GCP and BigQuery.
- ▶ 14:57 Rachel Wolan Data scientists were able to use the tools they were already used to, like GCP and BigQuery.
- ▶ 16:52 Rachel Wolan I went and I sat down with, like, 30 customers being like, well, why do you use Dropbox if you also pay for Google, or you also pay for Microsoft, or you also pay for, you know, whatever.
How Community-Led Growth Drives Product-Led Growth with Notion CRO, Olivia Nottebohm
- ▶ 13:08 Olivia Nottebohm Google did this early on. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:10 Olivia Nottebohm I was at Google Cloud.
State of the Cloud 2021 with Bessemer Venture Partners | SaaStr Software Community
- ▶ 22:50 Elliott Robinson Azure, GCP, AWS.
- ▶ 33:33 Elliott Robinson While many of us spend hours and hours, maybe even more hours in the pandemic, working out of some of the traditional and legacy office suites, like the Microsoft Office Suite, or maybe even the G Suite, what we saw is the emergence and…
- ▶ 36:26 Elliott Robinson Just Google it.
Nick Mehta, CEO Gainsight: 10 Things That Are Changing Now in Customer Success | SaaStr 2021
- ▶ 25:21 Nick Mehta You can go find this via Google, making customer success less squishy.
- ▶ 26:57 Nick Mehta and, you know, AdWords and all that stuff are human beings.
Building a Second Unicorn: A Deep Dive with Harness and AppDynamics Founder Jyoti Bansal
- ▶ 4:04 Jyoti Bansal So, like, the, the, the, what Harness does about, like, you know, I always thought it was kind of horrible that there are only, like, maybe 10 companies in the world who are very good in software delivery, where, like, you know, CI, CD,…
The State of the Cloud: 2021 with Bessemer Venture Partners | SaaStr Software Community
- ▶ 13:39 Byron Deeter And again, this does not include proportional shares from the Amazon, Microsoft and Google or Ali or Alibaba businesses that are their cloud businesses.
- ▶ 18:54 Byron Deeter Uh, it's clear that there's a changing of the guard that what used to be the thing stocks and people would talk about the Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google community, um, as the flag bearers for tech.
Brian Halligan, CEO and Co-Founder at HubSpot: The Secrets to $1B ARR ... And Beyond!
- ▶ 22:41 Brian Halligan Like we always have Facebook and Google use giant ones.