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Aug 2023
38m 53s

SaaStr 681: Scaling to $5B with Cockroac...

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About this episode

Whether you’re going from nothing to something or already scaling and thriving beyond $10-100M, healthy, sustainable growth in SaaS is on every founder’s mind. 

Cockroach Labs’ CEO Spencer Kimball shares hard-won lessons from scaling from $0 to $5B and his time as an angel investor for more than 80 different startups. 

He’ll walk you through the three stages of growth: 

0-$1M — From nothing to something

$1M-$10M — Building, innovation, and customers

$10M-$100M+ — Scaling and thriving And what sustainable growth strategies you can implement (and pitfalls to avoid) wherever you’re at in your SaaS journey.

 

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