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The SaaS Revolution Show, hosted by Alex Theuma, brings you insights and tactics from the greatest SaaS minds in Europe and across the world. Revolutionary founders, executives, and investors openly share wisdom on attracting and keeping customers, growing companies in unlikely places, scaling globally, successfully reaching the SaaS high skies, and never giving up. The SaaS Revolution Show is brought to you by SaaStock, the only media, membership and events business that focuses on SaaS fou ...
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Lessons in building BroadSoft to a $2 billion exit
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36:39This week, we’re running it back to one of our most popular episodes from 2023. Host Alex Theuma is joined by Mike Tessler, Managing Partner at True North Advisory and founding CEO at BroadSoft.Mike shares:- The BroadSoft journey: from its founding in 1998 , to going public on Nasdaq in 2010, and being acquired by Cisco in 2018 for +$1.8B- The proc…
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Becoming Superhuman: Rahul Vohra on AI, productivity, & the future of email
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35:31Rahul Vohra (Founder and CEO at Superhuman) joins SaaStock's Alex Theuma to discuss how Superhuman stayed ahead of the generative AI wave, how they’re shaping the future of productivity with autonomous email agents, and why great products that delights users — not flashy marketing — are the key to viral growth. Rahul also opens up about the lonelin…
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Lessons in longevity: How Matt Mullenweg scaled Automattic to $500M+ (and what's next)
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34:55Matt Mullenweg on scaling Automattic to $500M ARR.In this episode of The SaaS Revolution Show, host Alex Theuma sits down with Matt Mullenweg, Co-founder of WordPress and Founder and CEO of Automattic — the company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Tumblr, Beeper, and more.Matt shares the mindset, strategies, and lessons that helped him build one …
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Building smart, scaling right: Jason Cohen on practical strategy
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23:17This week, we're running it back to one of our most popular episodes. Recorded live at SaaStock USA 2023, host Alex Theuma is joined by Jason Cohen, Founder of WP Engine.In the episode, Jason reflects on his multi-decade journey as a serial entrepreneur, and shares his lessons from building and scaling WP Engine into a SaaS giant, including:- His j…
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The art of the pivot: Max Greenwald on finding PMF and scaling Warmly
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32:45Host Alex Theuma is joined by Max Greenwald, Co-founder and CEO at Warmly. During the chat, Max shares candid learnings about his journey as a Co-founder and CEO and insights into how he's scaling Warmly. Tune in to hear: - How Max went from Google PM to building a high-growth SaaS startup.- The pivots that shaped Warmly’s product-market fit (and w…
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GTM efficiency, AI, and the future of SaaS Sales with Jen Igartua (Go Nimbly)
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35:27Host Alex Theuma is joined by Go Nimbly CEO (and SaaStock USA Speaker) Jen Igartua for this episode packed with practical advice on making your GTM processes more efficient, including:- Why GTM efficiency is now critical for SaaS growth.- How AI and automation are transforming sales workflows.- The biggest mistakes SaaS companies make with their te…
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Lessons in differentiation at scale from Sendspark's Bethany Stachenfeld
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33:37Host Alex Theuma is joined by Sendspark Co-founder and CEO (and SaaStock USA speaker) Bethany Stachenfeld.In this 30 minute episode, Beth shares: - Her journey from Marketer to SaaS founder and CEO.- The Sendspark founding story and journey so far.- How Sendspark approaches differentiation.- Advice for founders differentiating their product at scal…
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From $150M SaaS exit to building again: Larry Kim on growth and acquisition
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36:27Host Alex Theuma is joined by Larry Kim, Founder and CEO at Customers.ai. "With the benefit of hindsight, it could have been done with even less than $18M. I think what happens is when you raise money, it allows you to make bets that you might not have otherwise made had you been operating on the edge of a knife." In this 35 minute episode, Larry s…
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The future of SaaS billing: Maxio’s CEO on AI integration and leadership strategies
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44:05Check out the other ways SaaStock is helping SaaS founders move their business forward: 🇺🇸 SaaStock USA 2025: 13-15 May 2025 | Austin, Texas. Connect, learn and thrive at the leading conference for B2B SaaS Founders, Operators and Investors from Pre-Seed to Series C. https://saastock-usa.com/tickets/ 🇮🇪 SaaStock Europe 2025: 12-14 October 2025 | Du…
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How the Best Founders Learn to Scale Themselves as Their Company Scales
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33:32One of our most listened to episodes, we're bringing back Keji Mustapha, CMO at Partech, who shares how the best founders scale themselves as their companies scale."If more founders did that, they would probably enjoy what they were doing more. I mean, you quit your job and set out on this journey to build this incredible utopia that you see becaus…
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The Truth About AI in SaaS: Nathan Latka Debates Microsoft's CEO Prediction
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32:21In this episode of the SaaS Revolution Show our host Alex Theuma is joined by Nathan Latka, CEO and Chief Investment Officer at Founderpath (and the powerhouse behind SaaSOpen!), as he shares the truth about AI in SaaS ...and why it counters Microsoft's CEOs prediction."I would get emails from real sales reps all the time that were terribly written…
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How the CRO of Datarails Helped Move From 90% Outbound to 90% Inbound
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34:42In this episode of the SaaS Revolution Show our host Alex Theuma is joined by Aviv Canaani, CRO at Datarails, who shares how he helped move the company from 90% outbound to 90% inbound."One of our best performing ads is something actually I saw, usually it comes from the team, but I saw this TikTok ad for I think it was a B2C company. Something lik…
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Sales Acceleration Formula 2.0 with Mark Roberge, Co-Founder at Stage 2 Capital
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50:10One of our most listened to episodes, we're bringing back Mark Roberge, Co-Founder at Stage 2 Capital, who shares his sales acceleration formula 2.0 with our SaaStock Founder Members.Mark dives deep into the Sales Acceleration formula followed by his previous company Hubspot. He also answers the questions posted by our SaaStock Founder Membership c…
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How to Improve Demand Gen for your SaaS Business, with Chris Walker (Passetto, previously Refine Labs)
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58:08One of our most listened to episodes, we're bringing back Chris Walker, CEO at Passetto (previously Founder and CEO of Refine Labs, a progressive demand generation agency that challenges the status quo in B2B marketing). Before launching Refine Labs, Chris led marketing at two B2B firms where he built the foundation of his unique perspective on dem…
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How AI is Revolutionizing Productivity Measurement: Insights from Ashley Kramer, GitLab's Interim CRO, CSO, and CMO
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30:25Live from the SaaStock USA 2024 Scale Stage, Ashley Kramer, GitLab’s Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer, sits down with AJ Eckstein, Founder & Creator at Creator Match and Fast Company. Together, they explore the imminent shift in how companies measure AI's impact on efficiency, questioning whether the productivity gains truly justify the risks a…
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Navigating SaaS M&A and AI Transformation: Leadership Lessons from Unbounce's CEO Steve Oriola
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36:14In this episode of the SaaS Revolution Show our host Alex Theuma is joined by Steve Oriola, CEO at Unbounce, who shares the leadership lessons he's learnt from navigating a SaaS M&A and the transformation AI has had on business."We also survey base of employees and those values are landing pretty well. That's an important part of it, is that people…
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How Kevin Hu Navigated Metaplane's Journey from Pivot to Series A and Beyond
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40:57In this episode of the SaaS Revolution Show our host Alex Theuma is joined by Kevin Hu, Co-Founder & CEO at Metaplane, who shares how they navigated Metaplane's journey from pivot to Series A and beyond."Most of us come from tens of thousands of years of subsistence farmers and we're one of the first generations that has the opportunity to build so…
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From Wall Street to Tech Unicorn: Abakar Saidov's Beamery Success Story
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36:53In this episode of the SaaS Revolution Show our host Alex Theuma is joined by Abakar Saidov, CEO at Beamery, who shares his success story from Wall Street-er to tech unicorn."A lot of entrepreneurs actually start businesses out of necessity. And necessity comes from two parts, either you have to do it because you have no other option, or you feel l…
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Scaling Eden Data: Taylor Hersom's Global Startup Success Story During the Pandemic
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36:53In this episode of the SaaS Revolution Show our host Alex Theuma is joined by Taylor Hersom, Founder & CEO at Eden Data, who shares insights into their global scaling journey during the pandemic. "Your reputation is everything as you're growing fast and trying to make it to your next round. And when you have multiple competitors in a space, you don…
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How a SaaS Founder Overcame a Goliath That Tried to Kill his Business, with Preston ‘PK’ Keller, Emergent3
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46:17In this episode of the SaaS Revolution Show our host Alex Theuma is joined by Preston "PK" Keller, Founder at Emergent3, who shares how he overcame an industry Goliath trying to kill his SaaS business. "When you've hit rock bottom and you're, like, going through hell, you cannot control all the environmental factors around you, but you can control …
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How Building a Mission Driven Company Helped Oyster HR Scale to Become a SaaS Unicorn
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35:27In this episode of the SaaS Revolution Show our host Alex Theuma is joined by Tony Jamous, Founder & CEO at Oyster HR, who shares how building Oyster HR as a mission driven company helped them scale to SaaS unicorn-dome."It enabled me to also be detached from the outcome. So no matter what happens, we miss a quarter or somebody quits, then you're n…
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Succeeding as a Growth Company with Raluca Ragab
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35:14In this episode of the SaaS Revolution Show our host Alex Theuma is joined by Raluca Ragab, Head of UK & DACH at Eurazeo, who shares how to succeed as a growth company."If you think of all the companies that had to raise a seed or series A in 2022, when it was hard, in 2023, when it was super hard, and even in 2024, anybody who's been successful to…
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In this episode of the SaaS Revolution Show our host Alex Theuma is joined by Marton Medveczky, Associate Partner at Flashpoint Venture Capital, who shares what exactly makes a founder investable in 2025. "There is always a huge difference between talking to the founder and then doing your own desktop research versus talking to a customer. So if yo…
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Scaling Goldcast to North of $10M Revenue
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33:02In this episode of the SaaS Revolution Show our host Alex Theuma is joined by Palash Soni, Co-Founder & CEO at Goldcast, who shares his journey scaling the business to north of $10M in revenue."We realised that the market is probably in bigger companies because that's where we are getting the pull from, and so our first actual like big customer was…
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In this episode of the SaaS Revolution Show our host Alex Theuma is joined by Philippe Botteri, partner at Accel, who shares the 2024 Accel Europe: AI Eating Software."Just look at the past couple of years, there's been $56 billion invested in AI companies and two thirds of that has gone into the top six companies of each region of the US and Europ…
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Biggest Learnings From Building Optibus to a Global Unicorn with Amos Haggiag
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25:19In this episode of the SaaS Revolution Show our host Alex Theuma is joined live from the SaaStock Studio at SaaStock Europe 2024 by Amos Haggiag, Co-Founder & CEO at Optibus, who shares his biggest learnings from building Optibus to a global unicorn."We sell a mission critical product. When a customer chooses Optibus, if Optibus doesn't work, the p…
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Key Lessons From Bootstrapping vFairs to Profitability and $30M ARR with Muhammad Younas, Founder & CEO
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22:43In this episode of the SaaS Revolution Show our host Alex Theuma is joined live from the SaaStock Studio at SaaStock Europe 2024 by Muhammad Younas, Founder & CEO at vFairs and Winner of the SaaStock Awards "Founder & CEO of the Year: People's Choice", as he shares his key lessons bootstrapping the business to profitability and $30M ARR."More than …
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Founder vs Company Brand with Angeley Mullins, CCO at Resourcify
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38:34In this episode of the SaaS Revolution Show our host Alex Theuma is joined by SaaStock Europe 2024 speaker Angeley Mullins, Chief Commercial Officer at Resourcify, who shares Founder versus Company Brand. "A lot of founders don't actually understand what marketing is. You have performance marketers and content marketers and brand marketers. You hav…
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Tomasz Tunguz on How AI is Changing the Future of SaaS
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30:25In this episode of the SaaS Revolution Show our host Alex Theuma is joined by Tomasz Tunguz, General Partner at Theory Ventures and SaaStock Europe 2024 speaker, who shares how AI is changing the future of SaaS."AI will be a key part of the product. I would characterise the last two years as adding AI features on top of existing platforms, and I th…
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Hypergrowth the Right Way - How Remote Scaled to Hundreds of Millions in ARR
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29:15In this episode of the SaaS Revolution Show our host Alex Theuma is joined by Job van der Voort, Co-Founder & CEO at Remote, who shares their hypergrowth journey and how they scaled Remote to hundreds of millions in ARR."I would always say this is a great problem to have. If you grow really, really fast and it's a luxury problem, and if you just em…
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Issues with AI Startups + Cash Burn with Casber Wang, Partner at Sapphire Ventures
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35:02In this episode of the SaaS Revolution Show our host Alex Theuma is joined by Casber Wang, Partner at Sapphire Ventures, who shares the issues with AI startups and cash burn. "Let's just say we intentionally freeze the progress of technology. There's no ChatGPT five, there's no GPT six. It's only what we have today; GPT four and some of the other, …
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From AI Skeptic to Advocate and How it Informed Tines’ Product Roadmap
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35:43In this episode of the SaaS Revolution Show our host Alex Theuma is joined by SaaStock Europe 2024 speaker Eoin Hinchy, Co-Founder & CEO at Tines, who shares how he went from AI skeptic to advocate and how it informed Tines' roadmap. "I can't tell you how many times over the years I've made a better decision as it relates to a certain part of the b…
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Achieving Growth Through Challenging Times with CEO of Boundless, Dee Coakley
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50:32In this episode of the SaaS Revolution Show our host Alex Theuma is joined by SaaStock Founder Member Dee Coakley, Co-Founder & CEO at Boundless, who shares her journey achieving growth through challenging times. "There's a founder called Ian Nolan, CEO of a company called Bright Flag. And I remember going for a coffee with him and I remember it so…
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CEO of PandaDoc Shares Lessons in Scaling Past $100M
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40:42In this episode of the SaaS Revolution Show our host Alex Theuma is joined by Mikita Mikado, Co-Founder & CEO at Unicorn SaaS PandaDoc, who shares his lessons in scaling past $100M ARR."It takes a lot of patience to run a business at scale. I'm not sure I have it, I feel like I need to build a lot of it. And this tendency of, like, getting somethin…
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From Gym to SaaS: How Dan Uyemura Built PushPress to $13M ARR
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33:19In this episode of the SaaS Revolution Show our host Alex Theuma is joined by Dan Uyemura, gym turned SaaS enthusiast and Founder & CEO at PushPress, who shares his story building PushPress to $13M ARR."Everybody has tried being the CEO, I think it just stuck with me. And probably I'm the most natural fit to be the CEO that we need at PushPress, be…
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Lessons From the First Time to Make the Second Time Easier, Patrick Barnes, CEO AMP
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35:23In this episode of the SaaS Revolution Show our host Alex Theuma is joined by serial founder Patrick Barnes, co-founder & CEO at AMP, who shares his lessons from the first time to make the second time easier."One of the things we did when we first started the company was actually acquire a small SaaS company, or really more of a product, just with …
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Three Key Growth Lessons in Getting Whatagraph Past $5M ARR
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35:32In this episode of the SaaS Revolution Show our host Alex Theuma is joined by Justas Malinauskas, Co-Founder & CEO Whatagraph, who shares his three key growth lessons in getting Whatagraph past $5M ARR."I get it. There's a lot of trend about bootstrapping in VC, and my point of view is if you can bootstrap and still maintain high growth and your bu…
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Reigniting Sales Revenue: What Can Sales Teams Do To Resurge in a Slowing Market?
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33:58In this episode of the SaaS Revolution Show, we're back at the SaaStock Growth Stage for an insightful panel discussion between David Appel (Head of SaaS & Software Vertical at Sage Intacct), Kathrin Koedderitz (Sr Sales Director at Globalization Partners), Ferran Puig (Director of Partnerships & Business Development at Capchase), and Zack Lipton (…
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Scaling Success: Insights from Klaviyo's Journey with President Steve Rowland
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22:10In this episode of the SaaS Revolution Show, we're live from the SaaStock USA Scale Stage with Klaviyo President Steve Rowland. "No matter where you live, there's this nice radius that you travel and you run all your errands in. I like to go into the local coffee shop or maybe you've got a favourite wine store or maybe a clothing store or a technol…
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From Burnout to Bliss: Strategies for Sustainable Success in Startups
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30:20In this episode of the SaaS Revolution Show, we're live from the SaaStock USA Scale stage where CEO Coach Mark MacLeod shares strategic insights and practical habits for sustainable success."In January 2021, I attended a retreat on the theme of self mastery with my guru and yoga teacher. As part of that, she had us write our eulogy. So I had to wri…
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How Tipple Won Five Billion Dollar Customers in its First Year of Operation
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39:30In this episode of the SaaS Revolution Show our host Alex Theuma is joined by Eoin Bara, CEO of Tipple, who shares how Tipple won five billion dollar customers in its first year of operation."There's a lot of SaaS companies that do one thing, and I think there is a trend in the market towards consolidation. So if you look at, like, employer records…
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The Great Debate: What You Need to Know about AI in Sales
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20:25In this episode of the SaaS Revolution Show, we're live from the SaaStock USA scale stage where Jake Dunlap (CEO, Skaled) and Kevin "KD" Dorsey (Sales Leadership Accelerator & Consultant) go head to head in their session on 'The Great Debate: What You Need to Know about AI in Sales'.Ready for a debate? KD and Jake share what you NEED to know when i…
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David Politis' Lessons Learned Over 20 Years of Building and Operating Companies Through to Exit
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54:58In this episode of the SaaS Revolution Show our host Alex Theuma is joined by David Politis, Founder and Executive Chairman at BetterCloud. "If you think about the journey of a company in the various stages of a business, we were getting to a scale where it made sense to find a partner who has a track record of taking companies to that next level, …
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Exiting your SaaS Business: Insights from Tim Schumacher, Co-founder of saas.group
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46:47In this episode of the SaaS Revolution Show our host Alex Theuma is joined by Tim Schumacher, co-founder of saas.group, as he shares his insights on exiting your SaaS business. "The one thing that's moved the needle every time is being open about certain problems which appear in one business and solving them myself, in a way, and that usually made …
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Marketing Leaders: 5 Ways to Not Get Fired, with Kyle Lacy CMO at Jellyfish
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28:04Live from the SaaStock USA 2024 Scale Stage, Kyle Lacy (CMO, Jellyfish) tells marketing leaders the five ways to not get fired. "I believe marketing should have a seat at the table for all four of these to force alignment, because you are the hub and spoke of the go to market model - in my opinion. So that's why it's important that you at least hel…
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5 Key Moments to Drive Revenue Growth & Customer Retention
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22:31In this episode of the SaaS Revolution Show our host Alex Theuma is joined live at SaaStock USA 2024 by Ashley Grech, CRO at Xero, as she shares the five key moments to drive revenue growth & customer retention.While we're all familiar with sales cycles and customer life cycles, when you take a deeply customer-centric view, there are a few moments …
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Decisions from The Gut with Jason Fried, Co-founder & CEO, 37signals
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56:52A company is essentially two things: a group of people and a collection of decisions. How those people make these decisions is the art of running a business (37signals). We make decisions every single day, it’s what often dictates the direction of a business. Some decisions work out and some don’t. Some are quick to make and some tough to call. You…
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How Aytekin Tank, CEO of Jotform, Bootstrapped a Unicorn SaaS with Teams of no More Than Six People
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39:14In this episode of the SaaS Revolution Show our host Alex Theuma is joined by Aytekin Tank, CEO of Jotform, as he shares how he bootstrapped a unicorn SaaS with teams of no more than six people."One interesting number I can give is, like, we always had this 50% revenue growth rate and we still have that. That's very interesting. Actually, if we did…
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Live from SaaStock USA 2024: Kyle Hanslovan, Co-founder & CEO at Huntress
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21:11In this episode of the SaaS Revolution Show our host Alex Theuma is joined live at SaaStock USA 2024 by Kyle Hanslovan, co-founder & CEO at Huntress."That nuance of finding the green field, the niche, is probably the single biggest differentiator that will help you escape and go, you know, you can sell to finds at one million or make five million i…
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Jake Dunlap, CEO of Skaled Consulting, on The Innovations in Sales Required to Hit Your Goals
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40:59In this episode of the SaaS Revolution Show our host Alex Theuma is joined by Jake Dunlap, CEO of Skaled, who shares the innovations in sales required to hit your goals."Relevancy cuts through the noise. That is the only way to be successful - that is it, it is singular. If your team and your organisation cannot send relevant messages, whether it's…
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