The Official SaaStr Podcast

The Official SaaStr Podcast is the latest and greatest from the world of SaaStr, interviewing the most prominent operators and investors to discover their tips, tactics and strategies to attain success in the fiercely competitive world of SaaS. On the side of the operators, we center around getting from $0 to $100m ARR faster, what it takes to scale successfully and what are the core elements of hiring. As for the investors, we learn what metrics they hone in on when examining SaaS business, what type of metrics excites them and what they look for in SaaS founders.

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Most frequent guests

Sam Blond 14 episodes
Nick Mehta 12 episodes
Dave Kellogg 9 episodes
Christoph Janz 8 episodes
Aaron Levie 5 episodes
Mark Roberge 5 episodes
David Skok 5 episodes
Doug Pepper 5 episodes
Andrew Bialecki 4 episodes
Brian Halligan 4 episodes

Every guest on The Official SaaStr Podcast

537 guests, ranked by how many people never want them back.

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Ed Zitron
SaaStr 310: EZPR Founder Ed Zitron on the Secrets of PR · Feb 2020

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Rob Reid
SaaStr 170: Intacct's Rob Reid on Scaling Intacct's Team & Culture To An $850m Exit, Why You Must Attack The Process Not The People & Why The Old School CEO Approach Is Upside Down and Backward · Apr 2018

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Anil Dash

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Matt Murphy
SaaStr 064: Why Now Is A Really Good Time For SaaS Startups To Raise, How SaaS Startups Can Innovate Their Business Models & The Biggest Takeaways From Working With John Doerr @ Kleiner Perkins with Matt Murphy, Managing Director @ Menlo Ventures · Oct 2016

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Daniel Dines
SaaStr 666: Scaling a SaaS Startup to $1B+ ARR: Insights from UiPath's CEO and Founder Daniel Dines · Jun 2023

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Ivan Zhao
SaaStr 449: Notion CEO Ivan Zhao on Winning at Enterprise through Community Building · Apr 2021

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Matt Mullenweg
SaaStr 719: What's New at WordPress with Matt Mullenweg, CEO of Automatic and Co-Founder of WordPress. Hosted by Jason Lemkin, Founder and CEO at SaaStr · Jan 2024

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Scott Belsky
SaaStr 701: The 5 Ways AI Will Transform Creativity with Adobe CSO & EVP Scott Belsky · 2 episodes

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Todd McKinnon
SaaStr 410: 10x Your Organization's Performance with Todd McKinnon, CEO and Co-Founder @ Okta and Jason Lemkin, CEO @ SaaStr · Dec 2020

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Brett Goldstein
SaaStr 731: 10 Things Founders Should Know About Getting Acquired with Brett Goldstein, Former M&A at Google · Mar 2024

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Joe Thomas
SaaStr 669: From 2 Weeks of Runway to a $1.5B Valuation: The Founder Playbook with Loom Co-Founder and CEO Joe Thomas · 3 episodes

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Aaron Levie
SaaStr 749: The Lost Podcast Aaron Levie, CEO of Box, and Jason Lemkin, CEO of SaaStr, in 2013: "Thinking About $1 Billion in ARR" · 5 episodes

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Adam Gross
SaaStr 732: What It's Like Running a Profitable $400M Public SaaS Company with Vimeo CEO Adam Gross and SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin · Mar 2024

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Alex MacCaw
SaaStr 084: Why Personalisation Is The Future Of Sales, The Benefits Of An Engineering Led Sales Team & Why Customers Pay A Premium For Predictability with Alex MacCaw, Founder & CEO @ Clearbit · Dec 2016

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Alexandr Wang
SaaStr 227: Why Deal Size In The Early Days Does Not Matter, Why TAM In The Traditional Sense Barely Matters & Why You Have To Invest In Customer Success Before You Think You Need It with Alexandr Wang, Founder & CEO @ Scale · Apr 2019

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Ali Ghodsi
SaaStr 505: The Future of AI, Open Source, and Enterprise SaaS: Where It's All Going with Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi · Dec 2021

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Amit Bendov
SaaStr 741: The Future of AI in Sales with Gong's CEO and Co-Founder Amit Bendov · 2 episodes

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Andrew Bialecki
SaaStr 873: Agents Are Your New Power Users: How Klaviyo CEO Andrew Bialecki Is Remaking a $1.4B Business for the Agent Era · 4 episodes

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Anu Hariharan
SaaStr 595: 5 Critical and Company-Altering Learnings from B2B Startups with Y Combinator MD of YC Continuity Anu Hariharan · Sep 2022

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Auren Hoffman
SaaStr 413: How to Build a Unicorn in 8 Simple Steps with Auren Hoffman, CEO @ SafeGraph · 3 episodes

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Aydin Senkut

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Ben Chestnut
SaaStr 592: Everything that Breaks on the Way to $1B ARR with Mailchimp Co-Founder Ben Chestnut and SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin · 2 episodes

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Brad Feld
SaaStr 161: Brad Feld on Structuring Your SaaS Startup For Scalability, How The Role Of CEO Should Adjust To The Growth Of The Organisation & What Makes The Most Effective Board Members · 2 episodes

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Brendon Cassidy
SaaStr 660: CRO Confidential: 3 Secrets For Early-Stage Startups To Acquire Customers With CoSell.io Co-Founder & Co-CEO Brendon Cassidy · May 2023

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Brian Halligan
SaaStr 784: What Really Works When Hiring VPs and Executive Teams with HubSpot Co-Founder and Chairman Brian Halligan and SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin · 4 episodes

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Byron Deeter
SaaStr 471: SaaStr CEO & Founder, Jason Lemkin and Byron Deeter, Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, Discuss Why The Cloud is On Fire in 2021 · 3 episodes

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Carilu Dietrich

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Carles Reina
SaaStr 877 CRO Confidential: 0 to $600M in Under 4 Years. The ElevenLabs GTM Playbook with Carles Reina · Sep 2026

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Chetan Puttagunta
SaaStr 171: How To Figure Out Your Pricing Strategy: The Diminishing Role of The Per Seat Model, Why Open Source Is The Only Way To Get In Front of Today's Developers & Why Capital Efficiency Is Always Key with Chetan Puttagunta, General Partner @ NEA · Apr 2018

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Christoph Janz
SaaStr 759: 5 Metrics that Matter When Raising Your SaaS Series A and Series B Round with Christoph Janz, Partner at Point Nine Capital · 8 episodes

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Claire Hughes Johnson
SaaStr 217: Stripe COO Claire Hughes Johnson on The Trapdoor Decisions to Avoid When Scaling · 3 episodes

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Dannie Herzberg

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David Frankel
SaaStr 793: The 10-Point Checklist For When You Sell Your Company with David Frankel Managing Partner at Founder Collective and SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin · Mar 2025

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David Politis
SaaStr 341: Leading Indicators Individuals Can/Can Not Scale with the Company, What Radical Transparency Truly Means and How To Implement It & Enterprise Adoption Of Cloud During COVID Times with David Politis, Founder & CEO @ BetterCloud · Jun 2020

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David Sacks
SaaStr 686: What the Future of SaaS Holds for 2024 with David Sacks, Founder & General Partner, Craft Ventures, and Jason Lemkin, Founder & CEO, SaaStr · 3 episodes

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David Singleton
SaaStr 636: Extreme Product Design: Building Things People Actually Use with Stripe CTO David Singleton · Feb 2023

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Des Traynor
SaaStr 155: Intercom Co-Founder, Des Traynor on Constructing The Right Brand Architecture, The Right Way To Integrate Customer Feedback Into Product Roadmap & Why There Is An Inverse Correlation Between Quality & Market Size · Dec 2017

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Dharmesh Shah
SaaStr 600: Founder Confidential with HubSpot Founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah, & Founder and Executive Chairperson Brian Halligan · 3 episodes

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Ed Sim
SaaStr 190: Why SaaS Founders Should Not Sell Their Products in The Early Days, How Founders Can Build Relationships with Enterprise CIOs and The Right Way To Think About Discounting and Pilots with Ed Sim, Founding Partner @ Boldstart Ventures · Aug 2018

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Eleanor Dorfman
SaaStr 855: How Anthropic Rebuilt Its Sales Org From Scratch When Demand Went Vertical with Eleanor Dorfman, Anthropic Head of Industries · May 2026

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