Over the past few years, the world is going through an interesting time. Business models have been challenged, the way we think about growth is changing and that means the way we build our companies has to evolve as well. Recently, we’ve seen a few interesting community-led companies bloom. Hubspot, Figma, and Duolingo are three […]

SaaSBoomi Caravan kicked off this week, starting with a CIO Panel discussion on September 20th with leading SaaS CIOs from the valley. Carter Busse from Workato, Eric Tan from Coupa, Klarissa Marenitch from Hippo Insurance, and Prasad Ramakrishnan from Freshworks offered an insider perspective on their experiences of buying and using SaaS products, plus some […]

Numbers in their absolute form are just meaningless digits. But, when sliced and diced with context, they can tell stories of growth, slowdown, success, misfires, efficiencies, challenges, and whatnot. Coming from a consulting background, Siva Rajamani is someone who has lived most of his career with numbers. He is currently the Co-founder and CEO of […]

This is a piece based on SaaSBoomi’s trip to the valley. The learnings here are extracted from seven roundtables, a few walks, countless orders of beer, wine, and coffee, and one-on-one conversations with the most ambitious founders in the world. For part one of this piece, click here. When Sunil Thomas moved to the US to set up CleverTap in […]

Employee Stock Option Plans or ESOPs as they’re more commonly known, are employee benefit plans which offer employees a stake in the entity. These plans are just options that could be purchased by the employees at a specified price before a deadline. There are defined rules and regulations laid out in the law that employers […]

How do you take business decisions? If you are like most founders and business leaders you think logically, look at data, and try to have a structure that can be replicated for future decisions. But decision-making need not always follow this structured approach. In this session titled A dialog on Intuition : Unlocking our True […]

Would you spend 25% of your first fundraise on one hire?  How about returning your first cheque from your first client just because you know they do not fit your product? And when that cheque is for $100,000?  These are just some of the high-risk but, in hindsight, right bets that Shruti Ghatge placed when […]

The extended lockdown imposed by governments worldwide has birthed the idea of working remotely or commonly called — the Work From Home (WFH) model. A New Normal has been established and the adaption has been remarkably fast for employees and their employers. Now, with the lockdown being lifted in a staggered manner, depending on the […]

When the bottom got unhinged during the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 (GFC), a new framework saw the light of day, and the acronym VUCA rapidly gained currency to punctuate business conversations. And now, “we have a VUCA Playbook”, as Girish Mathrubootham, the Founder & CEO of Freshworks says during his tete-a- tete (read Outliers Podcast) with […]