Short panel excerpts from a SaaS conference (SaaStr Annual) where multiple speakers describe the conference energy, the value of candid lessons (e.g., hiring mistakes), and the importance of hearing other founders' stories to learn and feel part of a shared journey.
There's so much energy at this conference.
So normally if you read a VC blog post, it's like theoretical or kind of tidied up. Zester is like, here is the three ways I completely screwed up this hire, and here are two ways in which you can get it right.
I think it's incredibly important to be able to have a bunch of companies that have learned the lessons that you might be learning right now. You want to be able to hear stories from other founders or entrepreneurs that have dealt with the exact same struggle.
People have to believe in where they're going. It's not about what you're doing today, but it's about the journey that you're taking together.
There's a lot of promise out there. There's a lot of young founders that are sitting in the audience going, hey, wow, I can learn from this. Or can I ask you a question? It'll be really cool to look back and be like, hey, we were a part of that. And this is when it all.
