The opening remarks from the 2019 SaaStr Annual event in San Jose, CA.

2. WHERE THE CLOUD MEETS
JASON LEMKIN
Co-Founder & CEO
SaaStr
@jasonlk
DEBORAH
FINDLING
Head of Content
SaaStr
@dfindles
AMELIA IBARRA
Director of
Marketing
SaaStr
@miadia

3. Thank You for Coming!!
Get Excited!!

4. 4000+ Flew in from
96+ Countries
So a BIG Thank You
to Whomever
Reopened the Government!!!

6. Lessons -> Mentoring at
Scale
New Friends ->
New + Old Reunion,
Partnerships
Top VC / Fundraising
Connections for Whole Year
Event ->
Your SaaS Home for 1 Week a
Year
1 Week A Year …
5 Years In, Time For SaaStr 2.0

7. Annual in Brief: Mentorship
Braindates 1:1 and 1:4 Mentoring — Tu W Th
Brella (Meet-a-Friend) - Tu W Th
Plato Engineering/Product - Wed
Founder Confidential - Th
VC Insider Presos - Th

8. Annual in Brief: Parties & Networking
Very Happy Hours in Expo Hall — Tu W Th
SaaStr Nights! - Tu
Night at The Museum - Wed
Last Call (in SJCC) - Th

9. Annual in Brief:
Sessions
New!! Q+As in SaaStr
Square Park
Check Digital Signage for
Sessions With Space
Pace Yourself!
Most Everything Recorded,
Sent To You

10. 2019 Tagline: Where The Cloud Meets
2019 is About:
Generational Companies.
Equality.

11. Generational Companies
308+ Unicorns in 2019 (CB Insights)
100+ Cloud Unicorns
49 At Annual (vs 2 in 2015)

12. 2nicorns

13. 49icorns

14. But who cares about
Unicorns (anymore)
What really matters is …

15. Generational Companies
$1,000,000,000+ in ARR

20. Equality.
Our Learnings +
New Learnings! :)

21. Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations
2019 Attendees:
96 Countries
52% Speakers Women
67% Speakers Gender/Multiculturally Diverse
Attendees: 6% from 18-24 + 5% from 56-75+
150+ from New Zealand! Go Kiwis!
Attendees from UAE, Taiwan, Poland, Lithuania,
Israel, Bahrain, Columbia, Argentina, Jordan, Russia,
Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Uruguay, China,

22. 2019 Speakers:
52% women
68% VC sessions women
67% women + multicultural
but … ~6% latinx, LBGTQ+, black (not good enough)
2019 Attendees:
26% women (list: 18%)
42% “diverse”**
1,032 EID attendees (’18 was 416) - start early

23. The Goals We Set, and
Prioritized, We Met
The Goals We Merely Hoped For,
We Didn’t

24. Getting Real,
Impactful Help was … Hard
Thank You:
KPCB, PagerDuty, Mixmax & Gainsight

25. In the end, with a team of 8 …
here is how (and what) we did
EID Program: 403 ’18 (cost: $115,000)
EID Program: 1,032 ’19 (cost: $705,000)
Add 2,000+ More Women + Underrepresented ’20
Want To Help? equality@saastrinc.com

26. Molly Ford
Sr Director, Global
Equality Programs
Salesforce
“How We Did It:
Gender Equality, Equal
Pay, and Racial Equality
at Salesforce”
16 (Of Many) Sessions We Are
Particularly Excited About
Leyla Seka
EVP
Salesforce
“How We Did It:
Gender Equality, Equal
Pay, and Racial Equality
at Salesforce”
Heidi Jannenga
Co-Founder & President
WebPT
“The 3 Women Who
Founded & Funded
12,000 Customers”
Jeff Lawson
CEO
Twilio
“Being An Ethical
Leader” with Anil Dash

27. Sallie Krawcheck
CEO
Ellevest
“Building Mission-
Driven Companies” +
Networking Lunch
Jessie Haines
Director, Engineering
Tile
“Building a Diverse and
Inclusive Dev Team”
16 (Of Many) Sessions We Are
Particularly Excited About
Stephanie
Lampkin
Founder & CEO
Blender
“How to Make Progress
in Diversity”
Rachel Williams
Global Head of Diversity
& Inclusion
StubHub
“How to Make Progress
in Diversity”

28. Jennifer Lawrence
VP, Inside Sales
Duo Security
“The Secrets to
Building a World-Class
$2.3 Billion Inside Sales
Team”
Nicole Alvino
CEO
SocialChorus
“All My Bosses Went to
Jail. What I Learned
About Corporate Ethics
from Enron.”
Claire Hughes
Johnson
COO
Stripe
“Avoiding Trapdoor
Decisions”
Elisa Steele
CEO
Namely
“How to Win the Talent
Wars”
16 (Of Many) Sessions We Are
Particularly Excited About

29. Tara Bryant
CRO
Pipedrive
“Addressing the Ugly
Side of Growth”
Jennifer Tejada
CEO
PagerDuty
“Founder Confidential”
+
2nd Annual Inclusion
Awards
Yamini Rangan
CCO
Dropbox
“5 Myths That Stop
SaaS Companies”
Sandy
Carter
VP, AWS
“Success at Scale”
16 (Of Many) Sessions We Are
Particularly Excited About

30. Have Fun!!
check mobile app for last minute additions
#saastrannual19