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What Happens When AI Kills Your SaaS Growth? Live Q&A with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 24:34 Jason Lemkin I was rewatching the chief product officer of Samsara, which is one of the most top 10.
9 Things You Can Do to Grow Faster This Year with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 12:16 Jason Lemkin I asked the CEO of Sam Sara when we did our deep dive with him just recently.
Samsara’s Rise to Vertical SaaS Leader and $1B+ ARR with Samsara's CEO and Co-Founder
- ▶ 0:34 Jason Lemkin Sajid Biswas, who founded Samsara. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:09 Jason Lemkin Yeah, are some, and SEMSAR is not that expensive, I don't think, but some of these folks maybe even have five or 10 year sales cycles to fully create this business process change in that sort of mainframe plus robotic mix environment.
- ▶ 4:14 Jason Lemkin Before Samsara, you had what back then seemed a stunning exit back in the old days when everything was smaller, right?
- ▶ 11:25 Sanjit Biswas Yeah, that's the name Samsara.
- ▶ 14:55 Jason Lemkin Then I want to dig in on Samsara business model, but you've got so much energy. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:26 Jason Lemkin I'm just, I'm just an observer, but probably an unfair way to describe Simsar in the early days is next generation fleet management. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:27 Sanjit Biswas And so if we can go help with that, the same buyer cares. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:45 Sanjit Biswas Which for us happened really quickly. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:46 Jason Lemkin Samsara is such a powerful brand, but you're new to a vertical.
- ▶ 35:51 Jason Lemkin Because you're going up market, but also the long tail still wants Samsara.
- ▶ 38:14 Jason Lemkin We taught, we started this conversation of, is there a downturn in Samsara's world? 2 times in the scene
What Really Matters in SaaS in 2025 with Jason Lemkin and Dave Kellogg
- ▶ 25:24 Jason Lemkin It was a great one. 3 times in the scene
The Era of HyperFunctional SaaS is Here l SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 5:54 Jason Lemkin So listen, Samsara, we're going to do a great podcast with the CEO soon.
Top 10 Go To Market Mistakes Founders Make Again … and Again with SaaStr’s Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 15:16 Jason Lemkin You will need that when you're Mongo or data, or when you're data dog with eight products, or Samsara with six products, or even HubSpot with five products.
Forget the SaaS Gloom and Doom. Just Build. with SaaStr CEO and Founder, Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 7:16 Jason Lemkin There's some, um, Sara, great CEO and great team. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:56 Jason Lemkin A lot of the best ones, the Samsara's and others are trading at 15.
2025 State of SaaS: Trends and Predictions with SaaStr CEO and Founder, Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 17:24 Jason Lemkin Samsara, ok, that's newer, but look at this list.
5 Lessons from Scaling Six Products to $100M+ with Samsara's Chief Strategy Officer
- ▶ 0:02 Kieran Saker I am a chief strategy officer and part of the founding management team at Samsara.
- ▶ 5:10 Kieran Saker At both Meraki and Samsara, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:26 Kieran Saker Often people think about a binary choice between SMB and enterprise, and, ah, I think there's a really important third segment in the middle, which we call the mid-market, which has been a incredibly powerful element for growing and… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:18 Kieran Saker Um, in the early days, before we were, ah, charging customers, before we had a sales team at Samsara, I actually hired a couple of ADRs, and, ah, had them cold call into, into potential customers, and have them book demos. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:30 Kieran Saker As we saw in our timeline at the beginning, at both Samsara and Meraki, we had multiple products in the first couple of years that eventually ended up scaling to hundreds of millions, or in some cases, billions of dollars in sales. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:25 Kieran Saker We are hiring across nearly all functions. 6 times in the scene
The Where, When, and How of AI with Theory Ventures, Open AI, MotherDuck and Lamini
- ▶ 8:55 Maggie Hott So for example, Amgen, PwC, Bain, Samsara, we decided to go as wide as we could with different industries and use cases, quite frankly, because we wanted to see how healthcare uses this tool.
Secrets to Scaling and Growth in an Unpredictable Market with monday.com's Co-founder and Co-CEO
- ▶ 41:12 Jason Lemkin Samsara just, in their last quarter, they had a great quarter, and they said, we didn't have enough sales capacity. 2 times in the scene
2024 SaaS Landscape: Why 2024 Could be Pretty Darn Good for SaaS IPOs with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 3:40 Jason Lemkin Samsara, um, the chief product officer here was yesterday, we'll talk about them. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:45 Jason Lemkin And I picked Samsara, which if you don't know, uh, I mean, at a, at a, at a, at a specific level, it automates fleet management and more. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:01 Jason Lemkin Um, public companies that are heavily impacted, like a Zoom, um, somewhat impacted, um, like the Samsara's that we saw.
SaaStr APAC AMA with Jason Lemkin, SaaStr CEO
- ▶ 46:49 Jason Lemkin Today there's no one left except Sensara, which IPO.
3 Lessons from Building a Marketing Engine to Grow Pipeline from Millions to Billions | Samsara CMO
- ▶ 0:16 Sarah Patterson I see so many similarities in Samsara to where Salesforce was when I joined. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:20 Sarah Patterson Is being CMO at Samsara. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:00 Sarah Patterson We at Samsara, we send alerts to our sales teams based on the type of leads that come in and we ping them when they haven't responded to what we know are our highest value leads that they need to get back to quickly.
- ▶ 12:11 Sarah Patterson Now at Samsara, we operate in the US, in Canada, Mexico, and Europe.
- ▶ 18:00 Sarah Patterson At Samsara, we started by solving the one problem our customers had around needing telematics in their vehicles. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:12 Sarah Patterson My biggest takeaways from my time at Samsara and Salesforce are to really focus on these three things.
- ▶ 24:04 unnamed speaker Um, Sarah, outside of transportation, what other use cases does Sims are currently have or plan to have?
- ▶ 29:50 unnamed speaker What is the ratio between marketing and inbound source leads and outbound source leads amount in Samsara? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:56 unnamed speaker Um, next question here is you mentioned both Samsara and Meraki were multi-product focus from an early stage. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:26 unnamed speaker The next question is Sam Sara has defined core customers as five K and up with a hundred K plus being the big growth engine. 6 times in the scene
Learnings from Innovating in Underserved Markets with Samsara CPO Kiren Sekar
- ▶ 0:06 Kiren Sekar I'm Chief Product Officer at Samsara. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:32 Kiren Sekar So without further ado, quick Samsara introduction. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:24 Kiren Sekar Before we ask that question, I actually want to rewind the clock to before Samsara was founded into, uh, Meraki, our previous company, and some of the learnings from building Meraki that have influenced what we're doing here at Samsara. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:00 Kiren Sekar So, transitioning from Meraki to Samsara, Meraki was acquired by Cisco for 1.2 billion dollars in late 2012, and 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:23 Kiren Sekar So that's when we decided to, uh, to jump in and start Samsara.
- ▶ 16:28 Kiren Sekar We founded the company in 2015, and there were a couple of things that we really had conviction over, and many things we had no idea about, had to figure out from scratch.
- ▶ 23:01 Kiren Sekar This really comes down to the customer feedback that I think we have really established at Meraki and then accelerated here at Sapsara.
- ▶ 30:10 Kiren Sekar We're processing billions of API calls as customers connect Samsara with other systems. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:08 Kiren Sekar If, uh, anything we talked about sounds interesting, or you have, uh, friends, people you've worked with that you think might be excited about Samsara, we are hiring. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:47 Kiren Sekar So Samsara's products are in a fairly mature space overall. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:43 Kiren Sekar Next question, um, we have an article on Sastr on five interesting things other founders could take away from Samsara. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:55 Kiren Sekar Next question is, um, about half of Samsara's sales team, or Samsara's team is in sales. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:20 Kiren Sekar We think about our, our newest product family, our connected sites product.