SaaStr 224: Zendesk CEO Mikkel Svane on Lessons from Zendesk Beyond $1B ARR

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SaaStr 224: Zendesk CEO Mikkel Svane on Lessons from Zendesk Beyond $1B ARR

Jason M. Lemkin 🦄

Apr 11, 2019

Mikkel Svane is the CEO of Zendesk and author of "Startupland". Join him as he takes you through his lessons taking Zendesk beyond a billion in ARR. Mikkel founded Zendesk in Copenhagen, Denmark in 2007 before moving the company to San Francisco in 2009.

Missed the session? Here’s what Mikkel talks about:

The future of the cloud
The rise of the public cloud and re-platforming of the tech stack
How business applications are sold and delivered leveraging SaaS

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The Official SaaStr Podcast: SaaS | Founders | Investors

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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