The Latest From SaaStr: 5 Interesting Learnings from Elastic at $600,000,000 in ARR

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By Jason Lemkin · Wednesday, May 12, 2021
 
     
 

So Elastic is one of the quiet Cloud monster success stories.  If you’ve built any sort of web service in the past decade, you’ve likely used Elastic search in one...
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By Jason Lemkin · Wednesday, May 12, 2021
 
     
 

Until founders have real help on the ops side, I usually see everyone get wrong the calculation of how many reps they’ll need to hit the plan 12 months out,...
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By Jason Lemkin · Wednesday, May 12, 2021
 
     
 

We’ve going to give away 10 full passes at NO COST to 2021 SaaStrAnnual to the top answers to a simple question:  “What’s Your Favorite Part of SaaStr?” Just add...
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By Jason Lemkin · Tuesday, May 11, 2021
 
     
 

There’s one theme we’ve reiterated over the years, at least since 2017 or so when we interviewed the CEOs of Twilio and Veeva back-to-back: To grow quickly after $100m ARR,...
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By Jason Lemkin · Tuesday, May 11, 2021
 
     
 

I’m not sure I’m a great giver of golden advice, but here’s my list of the best golden advice I’ve been given: Manage People — In General, and Earlier. The...
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By Jason Lemkin · Tuesday, May 11, 2021
 
     
 

There are two things I see SaaS entrepreneurs who are post-Traction and post-Scale say again and again: We’re So Sticky.  Once we’re in, it’s so hard to rip us out....
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