SaaS IT UP 🎙️

Jakob Knutzen (CEO, Butter) is building an all-in-one platform with all the tools you need to host interactive workshops, training sessions, and live courses. Butter is the #1 product of the day on Product Hunt. With a strategy consulting background from BAIN, Jakob has eclectic international experience across continents. I met Jakob during my On Deck fellowship. On Deck is where top talent comes to accelerate their ideas and careers, surrounded by a world-class community. On Deck is building the Stanford of the internet.

Zorian Rotenberg is a growth advisor(Sales/Revenue) who is currently helping the M33 team with portfolio companies with a focus on the sales strategy & revenue acceleration.  He is a former PE & Investment Banking Analyst turned SaaS CRO focused on leading global SaaS sales teams from $20M to $100M in Revenue (incl: senior sales management, sales, CS/AM, and channel sales worldwide). 

JB Daguené is a sales veteran turned entrepreneur turned investor who loves to eat SaaS for breakfast, B2B sales for lunch, and data for dinner. He is also a partner of 70 ventures which is a revenue accelerator for B2B startups. 70 ventures back ambitious founders with seamless investment from pre-seed to series A.

Dr. Felix Cardenas is the Managing Partner of Ascendis Capital and Director for the center of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at EGADE Business School, Mexico.  He develops corporate venture capital strategies with corporates, impacting growth and profitability. He has been an advisor and has conducted research for companies such as Cisco, Nokia, Alcan, Logitech, General Electric, Cemex, FEMSA, Credit Suisse, Proeza, Heineken, and Nestle. His research interests include private capital, entrepreneurial capital, innovation ecosystems, competitive strategy, innovation management, corporate entrepreneurship, value creation, and technology transfer. Open Innovation: Academic and Practical Perspectives on the Journey from Idea to Market, Oxford University Press. His research work has been presented at international congresses in San Francisco, Boston, Nueva York (USA), Geneva, Zurich (Switzerland), Istanbul (Turkey), and Nice (France).

Gustavo Souza is the head of Partnerships at Rock content, an exciting start-up in the content marketing space in Brazil. He is also a partner of SaaSholic, an early-stage venture capital investment fund focusing on the Latin American region. He is a lawyer by formation but has found his areas of excellence in sales and marketing.

Steve Nouri is the Head of Data Science and AI at Australian Computer Society. He is a proactive social media contributor and a LinkedIn influencer. 

He is a data science leader who currently lives in Sydney, Australia, and spends his time sharing technical knowledge with prospective students and advising public policy towards a more sustainable and beneficial understanding of AI and deep tech.

Cathy Guo is a Portfolio & Investment Manager at Antler and is a Web 3.0 evangelist. Previously, Cathy was the CEO and Co-Founder of Dunya Labs, building developer tools for decentralized applications. She has led early-stage venture investments in companies such as Clinikk and Stayqrious at First Principles, an early-stage seed fund in Bangalore. Cathy has a degree in Economics and Philosophy from Columbia University.

Wes Bush is the founder and CEO of ProductLed. He is the bestselling author of Product-Led Growth: How To Build a Product That Sells Itself and is one of the most sought-after product experts in the world. After working for some of the world’s fastest-growing companies, today he trains teams around the globe on how to turn their product into a powerful growth engine.

Przemek Szustak is the founder of HempFoodie, Co-Founder of Chainges and now Product Manager at Tidio, a communication tool for businesses that keeps live chat, chatbots, messenger, and e-mail in one place. In this episode, Przemek talks about his learnings of enabling growth and when it’s the right time to kill your darlings and pivot to a new approach.