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5 Lessons from Scaling Six Products to $100M+ with Samsara's Chief Strategy Officer
- ▶ 16:06 Kieran Saker Right, we get feedback about new things we can build, and we actually pipe this directly, ah, from our application into a Slack channel.
The Where, When, and How of AI with Theory Ventures, Open AI, MotherDuck and Lamini
- ▶ 1:22 Maggie Hott Ah, prior to this, I spent two years at Webflow building out the sales team there, and then prior to that, six and a half years at Slack, ah, from the very first founding sales hire out of headquarters, all the way through acquisition to…
- ▶ 10:15 Maggie Hott We set up Slack connect channels.
- ▶ 25:35 Maggie Hott So I'd say ChatGPT Enterprise, Slack, and Gong are the three tools I use for many hours every day.
Who Will Win the Go-To-Market AI Race? with Stage 2 Capital Co-founder Mark Roberge
- ▶ 1:41 Mark Roberge Mobile was huge for society, but like, I don't know, like, I used the mobile version of Slack and Zoom and the CRM, but like, it kind of is based on the web version.
- ▶ 3:30 Mark Roberge This was first mentioned to me in January from Mamoon at Kleiner Perkins, who's been a great investor, early investor in Slack and Figma, Box, et cetera.
Hitting Hypergrowth with Amplitude's CEO, Spenser Skates: Take Your SaaS Company from $25M to $100M+
- ▶ 9:13 Spenser Skates Uh, the next thing we do is we have a feature releases channel in Slack, and it is my personal favorite Slack channel, um, where any time a new feature goes out,
Nick Mehta, CEO Gainsight: My Top 10 Failures as a SaaS CEO & What I've Learned
- ▶ 3:42 Nick Mehta Actually, I just literally right before this put a slack post to my leadership team, and I said, this isn't an easy year, and I have a lot of empathy for you. 2 times in the scene
How to Navigate Strategic Change for Growth with SaaStr CEO and Founder, Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 13:32 Jason Lemkin You want to be Zoom or Slack or Canva, like, because that's the biggest ham. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:01 Jason Lemkin Did you put the Decade in at Slack, right?
What SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin Really Thinks About AI, Sales & Lead Gen In 2024
- ▶ 38:30 Jason Lemkin In terms of corporate M&A, the Adobe is buying the Figma's and, and, uh, Salesforce is buying Slack. 2 times in the scene
The Chat GPT Growth Story: How AI is Changing the Way We Work with OpenAI's Head of Sales
- ▶ 9:38 OpenAI's Head of Sales We created a Slack channel, just launches, so we could track.
- ▶ 14:08 OpenAI's Head of Sales So you could get really creative here and use templates anytime you release a new feature, anytime you have a new information for your sales reps that you want them to understand, you could make that a template that they interact with,…
Why You're Unfundable Today: The Cold, Hard Truths About SaaS Part 2 with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 44:27 Jason Lemkin But everyone else, every other founder I've ever asked on stage, you know, Stuart Butterfield, Slack. 3 times in the scene
How To Boost Your Net Retention Revenue (NRR) to Over 140% with Insider's CEO and CMO
- ▶ 18:50 Hande Cilingir And just writing to the Slack groups, just sending them, like, you know, some,
Rippling CEO Parker Conrad's Theory of the Compound Startup: Disrupting How We Think About Software
- ▶ 6:59 Parker Conrad Um, that's why Slack is owned by Salesforce now, because, like, Teams is free and the Microsoft bundle.
- ▶ 12:27 Parker Conrad In all of your different apps, you know, Slack, Dropbox, GitHub, email, so Salesforce, and so on, and, you know, get them their new computer and ship that out and manage it for you going, going forward.
- ▶ 35:58 Parker Conrad But usually our, our job in the sales process is to convince customers like, hey, look, you think that you're coming to us with this one problem, which is like setting up new joiners in Slack and email and Salesforce and GitHub and solving…
From 2 Weeks of Runway to $1B Acquisition: The Founder Playbook with Loom's CEO and Co-Founder
- ▶ 2:19 Joe Thomas We were still using Outlook for email, and then it was Slack in the last kind of like six to 12 months before we started Loom, but video was truly nowhere to be found, and so Mary Meeker, she puts out an annual internet trends report, and…
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 40:58 Joe Thomas Um, like you already have Slack, you have iMessages, you have email, like, when does Loom reach a threshold of being another inbox, and even if we could do it from a business purpose perspective, is that the right thing for users and… 2 times in the scene
Why The Era of Efficient Growth is Now: The State of the Market with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 3:44 Jason Lemkin Three months later, Zoom exploded, Slack exploded, we had a tear in SaaS purchasing like we'd never seen, so even though it was a rough four weeks, or eight weeks, or 12 weeks, it was so short, and even that, you can almost squint and see…
- ▶ 9:52 Jason Lemkin There's a fixed amount, and if you disrupt something, if you do something better than Salesforce or Zoom or HubSpot or Slack or even UiPath, if you do something that is 10 times better, you will get money, but it's because you're…
VC AMA with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin and Black Mangroves MD Arnaud Bonzom at SaaStr APAC 2023
- ▶ 44:37 Jason Lemkin So, people are making fun of Salesforce for spending twenty seven billion dollars for Slack. 3 times in the scene
SaaStr CRO Confidential: Sam Blond + Omni Founder Colin Zima on the Power of Leveraging Your Network
- ▶ 23:15 Colin Zima They have a very active Slack following what people are doing in there and sort of just understanding who exists in the community and things like that has been another place that we've sort of learned a ton from just, you know,…
- ▶ 44:54 Colin Zima And when I say ticket, it's like, we open up a Slack room with every customer. 2 times in the scene
SaaStr CRO Confidential: Howard Lerman, Founder & CEO @ Roam | Founder-led Sales
- ▶ 5:37 Howard Lerman And, you know, when the pandemic struck, we moved to zoom and slack like everybody else. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:58 Howard Lerman We've added features for group chat that make it possible for a company to not, if they want, use Slack, because we think we have a better approach for direct messaging in particular, where Slack is pretty weak. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:06 Howard Lerman We went with monthly active users, which by the way is how Slack got started,
Being a Rebel to Build a Movement: Non-Traditional Approaches to Scale | DoNotPay CEO Joshua Browder
- ▶ 15:23 Joshua Browder Uh, story with things like Slack, et cetera, and the same is true with Replit, and they even have these, like, viral words in their taglines, like, together and things like that.
Lessons Learned in Scaling Early-Stage to Hyper-Growth Companies: From VMware, AWS and Databricks
The Playbook to Blending Product-Led Growth with Sales-Led Growth: Amplitude VP of APJ Mark Velthuis
- ▶ 11:47 Mark Velthuis I think Slack has a very good example where they keep building new native integrations, right? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:29 Mark Velthuis Um, Zoom and Slack went viral.
SaaStr APAC AMA with Jason Lemkin, SaaStr CEO
- ▶ 13:14 Jason Lemkin A community will either organically grow because you will network with each other, you will go home and bring someone else next year, you will bring two people, you will be three people, you will share Saster content in your Slack at, or…
- ▶ 48:22 Jason Lemkin Um, uh, or join our Slack channel that no one moderates.