Podcasts
The framework for scaling your SaaS startup with Mark Roberge
Mark Roberge, MD at Stage Two Capital, is this week’s guest on The SaaS Revolution Show. Mark shares his framework for scaling a SaaS startup – to help you understand when your startup is ready to scale, and how fast to grow. He shares the three stages of his framework: Reaching product/market fit Transitioning from…
The importance of revenue operations with Krish Subramanian, Chargebee
Krish Subramanian, founder and CEO of Chargebee, is this week’s guest on The SaaS Revolution Show. Krish talks about revenue operations, and the importance of the operations function for scaling SaaS businesses. He also shares how his role as CEO has changed as the company has scaled – from what he’s learned about hiring and…
Lessons from bootstrapping to $25m ARR with David Darmanin, Hotjar
David Darmanin, founder and CEO of Hotjar, is this week’s guest on The SaaS Revolution Show. At the time of recording, Hotjar has 100+ team members across 20+ countries. David shares his learnings from scaling a fully-remote, bootstrapped company to $25m ARR, from navigating burnout to understanding the changing role of the CEO as the…
Can software make work feel less like work? with Rahul Vohra, Superhuman
Rahul Vohra, founder and CEO of Superhuman, is this week’s guest on The SaaS Revolution Show. At the time of recording, Superhuman had over 250,000 people on its wait list. The secret of their success? Game design. Rahul talks about how most of us treat emails as ‘work’, but at Superhuman they asked one important…
The Power of Events for Growing SaaS Startups with Jói Sigurdsson, CrankWheel
Jói Sigurdsson, founder and CEO of CrankWheel, is this week’s guest on The SaaS Revolution Show. Events have always been an important customer acquisition channel for CrankWheel, and Jói talks about why other SaaS startups should add events into their sales and marketing strategy. Additionally, CrankWheel was the winner of the Startup Pitch Competition at…
The Unicorn Hiring Trajectory with Maddy Cross, Notion Capital
Maddy Cross, Talent Director at Notion Capital, is this week’s guest on The SaaS Revolution Show. She talks about Notion’s recent research report: The Unicorn Hiring Trajectory. This looks into the hiring trends of SaaS unicorns compared with other high-performing (but not unicorn) businesses. When Notion invests in a startup, 80% of that capital goes…
How to retain top talent with Dan Martell
Dan Martell, five-time SaaS founder and founder of SaaS Academy, talks retaining top talent on this week’s episode of The SaaS Revolution Show. This was his keynote session from SaaStock West Coast 2019. He looks at the main reasons employees leave companies, and gives SaaS founders a strategy for keeping a pulse on your team…
Becoming a customer success-focused startup with David Roldan, Google Cloud
This week David Roldan, Head of Venture Capital & Startup Business Development – Europe, Google Cloud, is chatting to Alex Theuma on the SaaS Revolution Show, live from Slush 2019. Their conversation focused on David’s passion: Customer Success. David offered practical tips to help early-stage startups set themselves up as a customer-success-focused organisation – even…
How your core metrics shift as your company grows with Tina Sharkey, co-founder of Brandless
This week Tina Sharkey, co-founder of Brandless, is chatting to Alex Theuma on the SaaS Revolution Show, live from Slush 2019. They discussed Brandless’ journey to date, including their expansion from a direct-to-consumer model to incorporating a physical retail presence. They also discussed the importance of identifying and communicating your core metrics – and how…
Why do we quit our jobs with Phil Chambers, CEO of Peakon
This week Phil Chambers, CEO and co-founder of Peakon, is chatting to Alex Theuma on the SaaS Revolution Show, live from Slush 2019. They discuss Peakon’s latest report looking at why people leave their jobs. They discuss trends and common themes in employee attrition, the importance of your onboarding process, and the times and reasons…