How Mailchimp Navigated Economic Uncertainty; Plus Weekly SaaS News and Updates

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September 6, 2020

Hey SaaS Fans

This week we held our biggest SaaStr Annual (ever!) and it's been quite a week:

3 Days. 100% Digital
100+ Sessions. 150 Speakers
10,000+ 1:1 Networking Communications
300,000+ Viewers across Zoom + Social Media

Thank you all for a great event. If you missed it, catch our # 1 session replay-- Learning from the Lows: How Mailchimp Navigated Economic Uncertainty.

We'll be announcing our next big event very shortly, but in the meantime, our friends at TechCrunch are hosting their first 100% virtual, Disrupt in a week with sessions from some of our favorite founders at Atlassian, Cloudflare, and more. Grab $100 off tickets with code SAASTR.

How You Can Help Your Sales Team in 2021

Why It Shouldn’t Really Matter If Your VC Loses All The Money They Invested in You

The 3 Types of Day 1 Pricing: Low End of Normal. Identical. And Anchor High.

Don’t Accidentally Bootstrap Yourself to Death

The Top 10 Mistakes Folks Make Hiring Their First Sales Team

HOT JOBS

•	SaaStr is seeking a Account Executive - Global Sales

•	Gorgias is looking for a Director of Content & Brand Marketing

This edition of the SaaStr weekly is sponsored by Tray.io

SaaStr 371: Learning from the Lows, How Mailchimp Navigated Economic Uncertainty with Ben Chestnut, CEO @ Mailchimp and Jason Lemkin, CEO and Founder @ SaaStr

SaaStr 370: Automation, The Digital Transformation Accelerator with Jennifer Tejada, CEO @ PagerDuty

SaaStr 369: How to Hire an A-Player VP Sales and Scale Your Team with Jason Lemkin, CEO and Founder @ SaaStr and Robin Choy, Co-founder and CEO @ HireSweet

Listen on iTunes, Google Play Music or Spotify

Cash App’s Surge During Covid-19 Pandemic Fuels Square Stock

via WSJ

Softbank identified as the ‘Nasdaq whale’ that bought billions in stock options, betting on higher prices for the biggest names in tech

via CNBC

Corporate-card startup Brex is betting it can nab bigger customers by plugging into more mature management platforms like SAP Concur and Xero

via Business Insider

Apple on pace for biggest one-day drop in market cap in history at $150B

via Seeking Alpha

This edition of the SaaStr weekly is also sponsored by Dell for Entrepreneurs

TWEETS OF THE WEEK

Companies that had good competitors with strong brands before they started:

Zendesk
Datadog
Zoom
Slack
Mailchimp
Wix
Notion
Shopify

It's not too late.

If the CEO doesn't seem at least a little bit intense,

Join a different startup.

My top mistake hiring a VP Eng:

I should have hired the A+ that would have figured it out, instead of hiring the A- that already knew it.

My Top 10 takeaways from my talk with @benchestnut this morning:

1. Yes, bootstrapping can take 3-4 years longer

2. You may not need a moat. Maybe let them go if they aren't happy. Happiness is a moat.

3. Phase 2 might take 12 years to get to. It's OK. Talk to more customers.

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