The Saas Revolution Show

Dave Gerhardt, CMO at Privy, joins Stephen Cummins in an exclusive fireside chat. He shares his learnings on marketing organisation structure for companies scaling to $10M. This was recorded as part of an exclusive session for SaaStock Engage premium members, who also had the opportunity for Q&A with Dave, and network afterwards.

Gilles Bertaux is the CEO and co-founder of Livestorm. Livestorm is a video conferencing software, and in November 2020 Gilles and the Livestorm team raised a $30M Series B round to create a video conferencing ecosystem. He joins Alex Theuma on The SaaS Revolution Show to talk about scaling a company at an exponential pace - as well as Livestorm's recent funding round.

Shelley Perry, Managing Director of Scalelogix Ventures, joins Alex Theuma on The SaaS Revolution Show. Shelley is an investor, board director, and advisor and specializes scale-up stage - a unique growth stage for any SaaS company. She joins The SaaS Revolution Show to share the top mistakes she sees first-time founders make when scaling their company. Shelly is one of the speakers at SaaStock’s brand new Blueprint event, taking place on December 15, to provide the Blueprint to help SaaS CEOs go from good startup to great scaleup.

Sarah Nöckel, Seed Investment Manager at Northzone joins Alex Theuma on The SaaS Revolution Show. Sarah is responsible for Northzone’s Seed investments, and previously she was a B2B SaaS investor at Dawn Capital. She joins The SaaS Revolution Show to talk all things relating to Seed funding: how to reach out and build relationships with VCs at Seed stage, advice for pitching remotely over Zoom, and who are the right people to send to your pitch meetings.

Jacco Van Der Kooij, CEO of Winning by Design, and Godard Abel, CEO of G2 join Alex Theuma on The SaaS Revolution Show. Jacco and Godard are two of the speakers at SaaStock's brand new Blueprint event, taking place on December 15. We've put together the Blueprint to help SaaS CEOs go from good startup to great scaleup. They share the founding stories of their companies and the biggest lessons they've learned on their journey to scaling a SaaS company.

Recommended reading from LB Harvey:Primal Leadership by Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, and Annie McKeeThe Challenger Sale by Matthew Dixon and Brent Adamson

Jennifer Vancini, General Partner at Mighty Capital joins Alex Theuma on The SaaS Revolution Show to talk all things startup fundraising. Mighty Capital invests in ‘early growth’ companies, at Series A and Series B stages—that is, after companies have already achieved some level of product-market fit, and are looking to scale through a strategic capital raise.

Elena Verna (Growth Advisor, EIR at Reforge and previously interim CMO at Miro) joins Alex Theuma on The SaaS Revolution Show. She talks to Alex about building out a growth function within startups and scale-ups, and how growth teams fit in to the wider business. Elena shares her experiences based on advisor roles at companies such as MongoDB and Miro, including how to turn growth into a whole-company approach - not just a marketing effort.

Meagen Eisenberg (CMO, TripActions) joins Alex Theuma on The SaaS Revolution Show. Before joining TripActions, she was CMO of MongoDB (Nasdaq: MDB) and VP of Demand Generation at DocuSign (Nasdaq: DOCU). Meagan talks to Alex about how TripActions has pivoted and adapted in an industry that’s been hard-hit by the COVID pandemic, and the biggest lessons she's learned from this experience.

Darren Chait leads growth and operations for Hugo, a connected meeting notes software company. He and the Hugo team are on a mission to reconnect the way we meet to the way we work. He co-authored the book 10X Culture, and joins Alex Theuma in this episode of the SaaS Revolution Show to talk about what it takes to build a 10X company culture.

Tien Tzuo (CEO, Zuora) joins Alex Theuma on The SaaS Revolution Show. They're looking at what the future holds for the subscription economy. Tien also shares how he prioritises learning, to become the best CEO he can be, as well as the biggest lessons he's learned from this challenging year.

Sean Ellis (author of Hacking Growth, marketing and growth leader at 5 billion-dollar companies: Dropbox, LogMeIn, Uproar, Eventbrite, and Lookout) joins Alex Theuma on The SaaS Revolution Show. They're talking how to rapidly scale growth - from when is the right time for a startup to really focus on 'growth', to how to create a culture of experimentation.

Reshma Sohoni is Founding Partner at Seedcamp. Seedcamp invests early in world-class founders attacking large, global markets and solving real problems using technology. In this episode of The SaaS Revolution Show she joins SaaStock’s Alex Theuma to share how Seedcamp's investment strategy has developed since they started (thirteen years ago!), and how the funding environment in Europe has changed during that time.

Xenia Muntean, founder of Planable, joins Alex Theuma on The SaaS Revolution Show. Planable is a content review and marketing collaboration platform used by over 5,000 teams at brands like Jaguar, Land Rover, Viber, Siemens, and more. She was on the Forbes 30 under 30 list for 2019, and for the past four years, she has worked with hundreds of marketing teams, helping them collaborate efficiently from across the room or across the globe

Frederik Groce is a Principal at Storm Ventures and a co-founder at BLCK VC. Storm Ventures is an early stage B2B focused venture firm that specialises in building enterprise leaders. BLCK VC was formed to connect, engage, empower, and advance Black venture investors by providing a focused community built for and by Black venture investors. In this episode of The SaaS Revolution Show he joins SaaStock’s Alex Theuma to discuss an often-overlooked part of the startup journey: getting from product-market fit (PMF) to go-to-market (GTM) fit.

Mikael Johnsson is General Partner at Oxx. Oxx backs Europe’s most promising B2B SaaS companies at the scale-up stage. In this episode of The SaaS Revolution Show he joins SaaStock’s Alex Theuma to give a detailed look at the types of companies Oxx invests in, the one common theme he sees in companies that have found product/market fit, and what the next stage of growth - business model / market fit - looks like.

Max Altschuler is the CEO and Founder of Sales Hacker, the leading publication for B2B salespeople. In this episode of The SaaS Revolution Show he joins SaaStock’s Head of Sales Will Brightling to discuss the changes you can make to your sales process to iterate and show empathy in the face of a global pandemic, and what changes we can expect to see in SaaS sales motions in 2020 – and beyond. The sales must go on. But in the face of COVID-19, everything has changed. So how do you approach sales during – and after – a global crisis?

Patrick Arippol (Founding Partner, Alexia Ventures) leads an informative conversation with Thomas Preuss (Partner, DTCP), Michiel Kotting (General Partner, Northzone) and Pascale Diaine (Principal, Storm Ventures). This talk was recorded at SaaStock Remote. As more and more investors look into SaaS than ever before, especially in light of the current crisis, what are the steps you need to go through in order to prepare for your next fundraising round? What are the benchmarks to measure whether you’re being offered a fair price, and what is a 'fair' price in today's uncertain environment? How do you evaluate this to determine the validity of an offer? Should you hold in and cash out, or should you continue to retain control of your company and grow your businesses through alternative capital? If you’re an early stage startup looking to secure your series A from the growing number of local investors eyeing SaaS, how do you secure an initial or another round of investment?

Mischa Rürup, CEO and founder of Usercentrics is this week’s guest on The SaaS Revolution Show. He joins Alex Theuma to share his experience of building Usercentrics, the growth of privacy tech, and taking part in the SaaStock Remote Startup Pitch Competition earlier this year.

Saravana Kumar, CEO of Kovai is this week’s guest on The SaaS Revolution Show. He joins Alex Theuma to share his experience of bootstrapping Kovai - a multi-product company - to $10 million ARR. Kovai currently employs 160 people, with offices in India and the UK. Listen on to learn: - Why Kovai chose to bootstrap rather than take VC funding - His experience of growing Kovai in the early years, and how that's different to one of their products, Document360, which is following a more typical SaaS growth curve - How he approaches launching multiple products at scale - And what are his biggest learnings from 10 years of running the business