The Most Unconventional CMO Story in B2B Raaz Herzberg joined Wiz as employee #5. She led product for 2.5 years. Then their CEO asked her to take over marketing. Her response? “No. What are you talking about?” Fast forward to today, Wiz is being acquired for a stunning $32 billion by Google. And Raaz just…
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AI and Cybersecurity: How Rubrik’s Co-Founder Built a $1B+ ARR Platform While Joining the AI Revolution Lessons from Arvind Nithrakashyap, Co-Founder and CTO of Rubrik, on scaling cyber resilience platforms, building multiple product curves, and implementing AI across both products and operations. Company Snapshot: Founded: January 2014 (11 years) Current ARR: $1.09B+ (Q1 FY2025) Growth…
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Perplexity’s CBO Dmitry Shevelenko and host of the SaaStr CRO Confidential series (and former CRO at Brex), Sam Blond at SaaStr Annual share how AI has already fundamentally rewired how SaaS sales works.

At SaaStr + AI Summit 2025, Jason Lemkin and Kyle Norton CRO of $1B+ vertical SaaS leader Owner (where Jason is on the board) did a deep dive on AI in Sales today. And where it will be very soon. The AI-Native CRO: How Revenue Leaders Must Evolve or Risk Obsolescence 4 Top Learnings for…
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At SaaStr Workshop Wednesday live, Ethan Kurzwiel, previously partner at Bessemer Venture Partners and now founding partner at Chemistry VC, took us through a deep dive of exactly where Series A funding is right now in 2025. And sign up for the next FREE Workshop Wednesday here.   About Ethan Kurzweil Ethan is the founder…
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In our latest episode of the SaaStr What’s New series, SaaStr CEO and founder Jason Lemkin spoke with Sarah Kennedy, VP of Google Cloud Marketing. The conversation explored Google Cloud’s rapid growth, its AI-first approach, and what the future holds for the cloud ecosystem.

Join us on this episode of CRO Confidential as host Sam Blond dives into the remarkable journey of Codium’s VP of Worldwide Sales, Graham Moreno. Discover how Graham led Codium from a 30-employee startup to a unicorn with 150 employees in just one year.

SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin did a vibe check into the state of SaaS, AI, venture funding, and the rollercoaster of building a business in 2025.

Tooey Courtemanche, CEO and Founder of Procore, shared insights into his 23-year journey. From surviving economic downturns to scaling into a multi-product enterprise serving millions, Procore’s story is a masterclass in vertical SaaS excellence.

In the latest episode of SaaStr’s CRO Confidential Series, our host Sam Blond sits down with Ron Gabrisko, CRO of Databricks, to unpack the journey from $1M in ARR to crossing $3B ARR at the end of January 2025. With Databricks now one of the largest pre-IPO technology companies, with $10 billion of expected non-dilutive financing and a valuation of $62 billion, Ron’s insights are gold for any revenue leader looking to scale.

Victor Rippabelli, CEO of Synthesia, Tomas Tunguz of Theory Ventures, and SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin discuss the changing landscape of AI in SaaS.

SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin sat down with Kathy Lord, CRO of Zensai (and formerly of Intacct), to talk about what CEOs and CROs should really expect from one another, especially in those critical first 90 days.

At SaaStr Annual’s AI Summit, we asked product leaders from some of the fastest-growing SaaS companies to share their insights on navigating the AI revolution while scaling multi-product strategies. This panel of product leaders featured Anneka Gupta, CPO at Rubrik, Mahesh Ram, Head of AI Product at Zoom, Hubert Palan, CEO at Productboard, and Rachel Wolan, CPO at Webflow.

During a recent SaaStr Workshop Wednesday, Mangomint’s VP of Sales Marchelle Mooney shared 10 ways sales is different in vertical SaaS. Marchelle’s personal journey took her from early adopter of Mangomint, to 6 years later, VP of Sales over a 25+ person SMB sales team. Here’s some of what she’s learned along the way.

At SaaStr’s AI Summit, we gathered the product leaders who have built some of the most widely-used AI features in production today to share their tactics.