See You at SaaStr Annual 2018!

Name: See You at SaaStr Annual 2018!
Uploaded: 2018-01-26T18:22:01+00:00
Duration: 1 min 46 s
Channel: Jason M. Lemkin
Description: The video is a montage of short testimonials from a diverse group of SaaStr Annual 2018 attendees (Speakers A‑L). Each speaker shares a concise…

26 Jan 2018 · 2 min

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The video is a montage of short testimonials from a diverse group of SaaStr Annual 2018 attendees (Speakers A‑L). Each speaker shares a concise, high‑energy insight about what the SaaStr community and conference mean to them. Core messages include the transformative power of confidence and belief in one’s work, the importance of disciplined learning and codifying lessons, the value of building focused yet growth‑oriented teams and culture, leveraging software to solve real problems, the strength of peer cohorts that share challenges, and a collective gratitude for the community’s achievements. The overall tone is enthusiastic and promotional, positioning SaaStr as a catalyst for personal and company‑level advancement in the cloud‑SaaS ecosystem.

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This is the most advanced form of building things the world has ever seen, and that's bonkers if you think about it.
SaaStr brings together the best of what this cloud computing community is all about and really magnifies it out. You have to be confident about what you do, and you have to be confident about what you believe in.
I think having a conference like this and having the content and speaking a language that other people understand is really really identifying. I feel like a SaaS nerd in a way.
Rather than trying to motivate yourself or make yourself feel better, focus on discipline, focus on learning, codify lessons.
Whoever your hero is, they weren't born that way. They had to figure it out just like you did.
So if you put all of those different experiences together, you kind of steal from all of them, right? If I was in the audience, I'd be stealing pieces from everyone.
It's worth taking a look at each of the different problems and saying, well, is there a way for software to solve this? Because in a lot of cases, the answer would be yes.
You don't do everything yourself, right? So you've got to get everyone else to be committed to a big, long-term goal.
Building a team and a culture that knows how to focus and yet grow at the same time is a skill that I think I've honed over the years.
The pressure's on us to innovate and provide more value constantly, but not to be helicopter parents. I feel a responsibility to make sure we win.
The community is at the core of defining not only who you are as a business, but who you could be.
If you can get a cohort of people that are simultaneously experiencing and going through the same problem and put them together so they can actually talk amongst each other as they're learning things, that's really powerful.
As a community, we've done amazing things, and I want to thank everyone for being a part of it. And I want to tell myself, in 2 years, wherever Seth is to look back at this moment that we as a team, everyone here, did something amazing.