
SaaStr 039: The Unwavering Power of Predictable Revenue and Why We Will See Further Consolidation in SaaS with Cindy Padnos, Founder and Managing Partner @ Illuminate Ventures
Cindy Padnos is the Founder and Managing Partner at Illuminate Ventures where she focuses on all things Enterprise/B2B cloud and mobile computing sectors. Prior to founding Illuminate in 2009, she was...
15 Jul 201630min

SaaStr 038: Rainforest QA's Fred Stevens-Smith on Firing Fast, The Transition From Founder To CEO & Why You Should Spend The Most Time with Your Highest Performers
Fred Stevens-Smith is the Co-Founder & CEO @ Rainforest QA, which if you listened to 20VC with Byron Deeter, you will remember he discussed them and their amazing trajectory. So for QA first, it is es...
11 Jul 201630min

SaaStr 037: Why The Whole SaaS Pricing Model Is Going To Change with Quang Hoang, Co-Founder @ Birdly
Quang Hoang is the Co- Founder @ Birdly, Birdly are convinced by the power of messaging within organizations, they decided to build a broader service that connects your favorite business softwares to ...
8 Jul 201621min

SaaStr 036: Point Nine's Christoph Janz on The War For Talent, When To Move To The US & The Importance Of Local Investors
Christoph Janz is the Co-Founder and the Managing Partner @ Point Nine Capital, one of Europe's best early stage venture funds and Christoph himself specializes in all things SaaS at Point Nine and ha...
4 Jul 201627min

SaaStr 035: Matt Garratt on The Strategy Behind Salesforce Ventures
Matt Garratt currently runs Salesforce Ventures with the mandate to build out salesforce's ecosystem of partners with equity investments. Matt has led key strategic investments at Salesforce in compan...
1 Jul 201622min

SaaStr 034: How To Master The Freemium Model, Learnings From Being The 1st Sales Hire @ Box & Dropbox & The Integration of Sales and Engineering with Front's New Head of Sales, Cailen D'sa
I am delighted to welcome the new Head of Sales @ Front App, Cailen D'sa, to The Official SaaStr Podcast today. Cailen might just be the Head of Sales every SaaS startup founder is dreaming of having ...
27 Jun 201626min

SaaStr 033: The Fundamental Challenges of SaaS M&A with Villi Iltchev, Partner @ August Capital
Villi Iltchev is a Partner @ August Capital and prior to joining August Villi was a member of the leadership teams at Box and Lifelock. Before that Villi was a Vice President @ Salesforce where he led...
24 Jun 201624min

SaaStr 032: Scaling Operations From 10 to 130 In A Year & The Fundamentals of What Makes A Great SaaS Business Opportunity with Luke Kervin, Co-Founder @ PatientPop
Luke Kervin is the Co-Founder & Co-CEO @ PatientPop, where he has scaled the team from 10 to over 130 in just 12 months. As a result, PatientPop recently raised their Series A led by Toba Capital, all...
20 Jun 201622min




















