SaaS founders and executives at the 2017 SaaStr Annual in San Francisco explain why they come back. They value the investor access, the candid talks from peers, the chance to build teams, and the international network that keeps them connected year after year.
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So I'm here to share my experience with SaaStr and hopefully help some other folks. I think it's important not to follow the herd, right? Because you can— it's your only chance for greatness.
Now is maybe the best of times, and it's a 10 in SaaS.
Here you have everything. You have investors, you have VPs, you have great success stories, and you You get to meet new people, you get to share your story.
I think that one of the greatest parts about it is people are really candid here about what it takes to build a business. It's this whole ecosystem that's breaking down the process of building SaaS companies and educating people. That's a really wonderful mission.
Just the pure focus on SaaS brings such a specific niche that we all come and we're all like-minded. It's nice to get both perspective from people who live in San Francisco, but then also those from different countries, different states.
I'm actually come from France. We heard about the event last year and we really wanted to be a part of it this year. San Francisco, so it's like the heart of the tech scene for us.
I actually bought my tickets for this year's conference right after last year, and I actually bring my team back this year as well because I think everyone needs to understand how to work together.
There are a lot of people that have met here at the 2017 conference this week that have made a connection that's going to last a lifetime.
There's a great venture presence here, and we got to have a lot of great meetings, and two, some experienced SaaS executives who've sort of gotten to that next level.
I felt that this would be a good learning experience in how to grow the company that I'm at right now from where we're at, which is, you know, X amount of million dollars, infinitely.
SaaStr brings together the best of what this, like, what this cloud computing community is all about and really magnifies it out. I think it's wonderful. I'm so fired up. I was at the first one and I'm at the third one. I love them. I think it's really cool.
