The SaaS Revolution Show

Dave Grow always considered himself an operator. When he joined Lucidchart seven years ago, shortly after co-founders Karl Sun and Ben Dilts had built the product, he was there to take care of the business side of things. From answering customer support tickets and doing digital marketing to hiring and setting up partnerships, Dave did it all. Currently the company's COO and President, back then h...

On this week’s episode, we take you back to one of the panels we hosted on the SaaStock17 stage. Benedicte de Raphelis Soissan, founder of Clustree, Phil Chambers, CEO and co-founder of Peakon, and Jonathan Anguelov, co-founder and COO of Aircall discus the power of people, and how to hire, keep and develop people for the success of the company. Benedicte shares how she has grown Clustree to 25 pe...

Kyle Poyar is a self-professed pricing and growth nerd. The latest guest on the SaaS Revolution Show, Kyle is Senior Director of Market Strategy at Openview, one of many speakers we will welcome in Dublin for SaaStock18. His passion lays in seeing how packaging and pricing have the power to build large and enduring business. Kyle helps OpenView’s portfolio companies accelerate to top-line growth t...

Few people grow up deciding sales will be their career. Matthew Bellows, CEO of Yesware, is no exception. The latest guest on the Saas Revolution Show, he is something of an accidental salesman. It never was the plan but as soon as Matthew began working he figured that was where he could be of best use to a business. Through the years he got into more managerial roles and eventually became a VP of...

Bridget Harris, CEO and co-founder of youcanbook.me, had initially assumed she would be raising money for the online scheduling tool she was building with her co-founder. Bridget and Keith Harris spoke to many investors, looked at many term sheets and soon began grasping a peculiar fact - running a company with VC funding doesn’t make things easier, if anything, it may make them more difficult. Th...

Paddle's traction and growth is the stuff of dreams. A company helping software creators sell since 2012, it has been recognised by Deloitte as the fastest growing software company in the UK. With hundreds of customers and a recent $12.5 million Series B round, the company has remained under the radar most of this time. How does that happen? On this episode, Christian Owens, Paddle's CEO gives a v...

Fred Shilmover, CEO of InsightSquared, shares how he has grown the company the past 7 years by staying laser-focused and not expanding globally. It has been there since day -1, back when Fred applied for an MBA to figure out what SaaS company he wanted to create. Fred did a proper research what would be of most value to people. Eventually, he figured that to deliver the best value to customers and...

As is often the case in tech, timing is crucial. It’s hitting the sweet spot of offering a solution when a market is just ready but not overflowing with competitors. Hanno Renner, CEO and co-founder of German HR solution Personio, and the latest guest on the SaaS Revolution Show got his timing just right. He launched the company two and a half years ago in Munich at a time when the HR industry in...

Peter Holten Mühlmann, CEO of Trustpilot, an online review community, talks with Alex Theuma on the latest episode of the SaaS Revolution Show and offers practical wisdom such as when is the right time to go international, how to fundraise and what is the question every CEO needs to be answering as a company scales. Trustpilot’s story began ten years ago in Copenhagen when Peter decided all compan...

On the latest episode of the SaaS Revolution Show Alex is joined by Chris Hall, CEO at Dutch marketing tech company Bynder. In the conversation they touch on the pillars that define the journey of a CEO - from scaling and growing the company, its culture and its people to the personal transformation a CEO undergoes and how to deal with it. One key lesson he has picked on the way is that the most s...

Eric Santos, CEO and Co-Founder of Resultados Digitais, the leading marketing automation tool in Brazil and Latin America joins Alex for a conversation about the steps to convincing a market of the value of a product that it doesn’t understand, how to build an audience and develop customer discovery before a single line of code is written, how to create a “Disneyland-like" user conferences. E...

On the latest episode of the SaaS Revolution Show Alex Theuma takes you to sunny Lisbon and Web Summit where he caught up with Ashley Carroll, Partner at Social Capital. Their conversation is about metrics and why user engagement is the most important one in her book. Chatting amidst the Web Summit crowds, they cover lessons she has learned working at SurveyMonkey, Optimizely and DocuSign, what is...

On this week’s episode of the SaaS Revolution Show, Alex takes you to the SaaStock17 Scale stage where Christoph Janz, Managing Partner of Point Nine Capital sat down with Des Traynor, Co-Founder, Chief Strategy Officer and VP of Marketing of Intercom. They talk building and managing product and the importance of saying "No", as well as marketing and the channels that have been most bene...

Patrick Barnes, CEO and co-founder of Advocately, an advocate marketing platform for B2B companies, shares with Alex the GTM strategy that got him to $7K MRR. He answers key questions such as how he figured out who his perfect customers are, what MarTech tools he uses throughout the buying journey and why he isn't too hung up on pricing at this stage. You can read a short post from the episode - h...

Ronan Perceval, CEO and founder of Phorest, a SaaS company providing solutions to salons, shares with Alex Theuma how he sells to the SMB market, keeps customers happy and successful, and maintains low churn rates. Check out the accompanying blog post to find all the links mentioned during the podcast including a 20% discount code for SaaStock 17 https://www.saastock.com/blog/view/the-no-bs-guide-...

In the latest episode of the SaaS Revolution Show, Alex plays back a panel discussion held at SaaStock 16 on the fuzzy subject of hiring during growth. Probably among the toughest things for any founder and CEO to figure out, finding the right people at the right time and keeping them happy and engaged is the make or break for many companies. The panel includes Michelle Williamson, CEO and co-foun...

Scott Heimes, CMO of SendGrid shares with Alex Theuma data insights and customer examples to reveal the 5 rules for building a strong and effective email program. Check out the accompanying blog post to find all the links mentioned during the podcast including a 20% discount code for SaaStock 17 https://www.saastock.com/blog/view/5-keys-for-driving-growth-engagement-via-email Scott Heimes is one o...

Tope Awotona, CEO of Calendly talks with Alex Theuma about positioning your SaaS and figuring out the messaging, ideal customers, and company structure that come with it. Check out the accompanying blog post to find all the links mentioned during the podcast including a 20% discount code for SaaStock 17 https://www.saastock.com/blog/view/how-to-position-your-saas-with-tope-awotona     &n...

Philippe Botteri, Partner at Accel, talks with Alex Theuma about the art of going international, why the world is the market every SaaS company should be after, and how to go about it. Check out the accompanying blog post to find all the links mentioned during the podcast including a 20% discount code for SaaStock 17 https://www.saastock.com/blog/view/the-accel-playbook-for-internationalisation &n...

Hannah Chaplin, CEO, and co-founder of Receptive, a product demand intelligence SaaS solution, talks with Alex Theuma in the latest episode of the SaaS Revolution Show about selling to the Enterprise at the early stages of a startup. Read the accompanying article to find the articles and people Hannah mentions - https://www.saastock.com/blog/view/selling-to-the-enterprise-at-the-early-stages &nbsp...

Jacco van der Kooij, founder of Winning by Design, a consultancy helping SaaS companies design, build and scale their sales efforts, talks with Alex Theuma about why SaaS as we know it is dead and what to do to stay alive. Check out the accompanying blog post to find the links + Jacco's research article "Principles of rapid growth sales as used by Silicon Valley startups" https://www.saa...

Peter Coppinger, the CEO and founder of Teamwork.com talks with Alex Theuma about the things the Cork-based project management suite of tools for professionals did right and the mistakes it made on the bootstrapped way to $100 million ARR, taking over the world. Check out the accompanying blog post to read Peter's story and some of the lessons learned - https://www.saastock.com/blog/view/building-...

Guillaume Cabane, VP Growth @ Segment.com talks with Alex Theuma about the top 5 things that have helped Segment achieve incredible growth through using the two best tools for collecting data, focusing on the 5% of visitors that matter and initiating onboarding programs and dynamic content that are individually tailored. *Check out the blog post accompanying the podcast for links of the books and...

In this brand new episode of the SaaS revolution show Alex Theuma is joined by the co-founder and Head of Product of Pipedrive, Martin Henk. Martin talks all things product, from building it and growing the product management team, to finding the best candidates and learning what is the single most important thing for product growth before a single line of code is written.       Che...

In this brand new episode of the SaaS revolution show Alex Theuma is joined the General Manager of Gainsight EMEA, Dan Steinman a Customer Success veteran who discusses when and how you build out a customer success team.       Check out the other ways SaaStock is helping SaaS founders move their business forward:  🇮🇪 SaaStock Europe | Dublin, Ireland Book tickets: https://saast...