The Saas Revolution Show

Doist is a remote-first, fully-bootstrapped company - and has been for 10 years. Amir Salihefendic shares his advice for adopting and adapting to asynchronous communication - and how that can help your team master the shift to remote work. He discusses how transparency and asynchronous work go hand-in-hand, and why written communication is a key skill for successful async communication.

Lorena Morales, VP of Marketing at Go Nimbly is this week’s guest on The SaaS Revolution Show. In this episode she shares her experience as a marketing leader, including why Go Nimbly's marketing doesn't focus on lead generation - and how that's all changed with COVID-19. Jason Reichl, CEO of Go Nimbly joined the podcast last year to talk about revenue operations, and Lorena shares the types of companies that can benefit from implementing revenue operations, and why.

Jeff Titterton, CMO at Zendesk is this week’s guest on The SaaS Revolution Show. In this episode he shares his experience of growing from single-product to multi-product companies - based on his time at Zendesk to date, and previously in senior leadership positions at Adobe. He also discusses what's important for marketers in times of crisis, and how Zendesk is adapting its marketing in light of the coronavirus pandemic.

Javier Darriba, CEO and co-founder at Bloobirds is this week’s guest on The SaaS Revolution Show. Javier is a serial entrepreneur: he previously co-founded UserZoom, one of the most successful SaaS companies to come out of Spain - and is now looking to repeat that success with Bloobirds. Sales is his specialism, so this is a must-listen for any sales leaders (or aspiring sales leaders) in growing SaaS companies. In this episode he shares a wealth of sales expertise, from how to build out your sales team to why every startup needs a sales playbook.

David Apple, Head of Customer Success & Sales at Notion (and former VP of Customer Success and Sales at Typeform) is this week’s guest on The SaaS Revolution Show. In this episode he shares his experience building out the customer success function at two top SaaS companies: Typeform, and now Notion. He was the first customer success hire at Notion, so he shares some valuable insights on how to get started with customer success, how to decide what to prioritise and focus on, in the early days as a team of one.

Wes Bush, Principal at Product-Led Institute and author of Product-Led Growth is this week’s guest on The SaaS Revolution Show. In this episode he gives us an introductory masterclass on one of the hottest trends in SaaS right now: product-led growth. He explains why adopting a product-led growth model can be especially helpful for startups in times of crisis - but why it may not be the right fit for everyone. Wes also shares his top tips for starting to adopt a product-led approach, including one thing you can try right now!

Eric Santos, CEO and founder of Resultados Digitais (RD) is this week’s guest on The SaaS Revolution Show. He shares his learnings from raising their series C and D rounds of funding, including how the company's growth strategies have developed during that time.

Andy Byrne, CEO and founder of Clari is this week’s guest on The SaaS Revolution Show. Clari is his fourth Sequoia-backed business, and has just raised its Series D. Andy shares his lessons from building and scaling four Sequoia-backed businesses, right from the early stage of getting from $0-1M, all the way up to scaling to $25M.

You Mon Tsang, CEO and founder of ChurnZero is this week's guest on The SaaS Revolution Show. This episode is a 2-4-1: in the first half he focuses on how early stage SaaS companies can build out their customer success function. Then in the second half he shares ChurnZero's framework for rotational remote work, balancing time in the office with remote time for deep work.

Mikael Thuneberg, CEO and founder of Supermetrics, is this week’s guest on The SaaS Revolution Show. He shared the incredible story of how Supermetrics grew from $10M to $20M ARR in just twelve months, and what the main levers were to drive their revenue growth. From marketing and sales activities, to product and pricing details, Mikael shares some of the lessons he's learned scaling up Supermetrics.

Rui Brandão, CEO and founder at Zenklub, is this week’s guest on The SaaS Revolution Show. Rui shared the personal story that led him to transition from working as a medical doctor to founding Zenklub, a startup transforming the provision of mental health support in Brazil. He talked about the state of mental health in Brazil, highlighting why Zenklub's mission is so important. He discussed the importance of mental health for startup founders and employees alike - and how each group experiences different emotional challenges when growing a startup.

This episode of The SaaS Revolution Show takes us back to SaaStock West Coast in September 2019. This session was delivered by Tae Hea Nahm - Managing Director of Storm Ventures, and 3x entrepreneur Bob Tinker. They discuss how startup founders and employees need to learn and change as their company grows and scales.

Marcelo Lombardo, CEO and founder at Omie, is this week’s guest on The SaaS Revolution Show. Marcelo shared his story of growing Omie from a 7 person startup in 2013, to an 800 person company today. He talked about how Omie built out their sales process and completely transformed from a light-touch sales process to having the majority of their team involved with sales in some part. He also shares his learnings from having lots of competitors suddenly appearing in their market, and how Omie overcame that challenge.

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 product/market fit to go-to-market fit - Growth and moat.

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 team building to how his day-to-day role has changed.

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 company grows.

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 question: how can we make software feel less like work and more like play? Listen to learn how they use game design in all areas of their product design - and how other startups can benefit from learning more about the theory of game design.

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 SaaStock 2019, and crowned the Best SaaS Startup of 2019. Jói shares his experience of the Startup Pitch Competition, and how CrankWheel has benefited from taking part.

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 on headcount - growing the team. But how do the choices you make - when to hire, who to hire - affect the growth trajectory of your company?

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 episode 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 so there's no surprise departures.