{"id":2384,"date":"2019-07-23T11:17:14","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T05:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/?p=2384"},"modified":"2019-08-13T11:25:02","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T05:55:02","slug":"what-makes-great-saas-leaders-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/what-makes-great-saas-leaders-great\/","title":{"rendered":"What makes Great SAAS leaders Great?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Looking around for attributes while building great Saas teams I came across this post by Brad Feld (Oct 2017). He writes about a Keynote by Scot Dorsey the founder of ExactTarget (sold to SalesForce for $2.5Bn in 2013) and currently the Managing Partner of High Alpha, a venture studio for next generation Enterprise Cloud companies.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.licdn.com\/dms\/image\/C5122AQE7B5WxfY7qZg\/feedshare-shrink_800\/0?e=1568851200&amp;v=beta&amp;t=efLzMjtz1rKuKSApSuxGflNwHO-d2YhSdof4tCXdBYA\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"265\"\/><figcaption>Scot Dorsey<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Brad Feld thinks highly of Scot Dorsey and recommends you follow him for learning. Interestingly of the 5 attributes (#5 looks like a Scot Dorsey favorite, I found another keynote on YouTube where he talks about #5 ideas in Sales). The interesting thing was point 2. Recognize that you are Always learning. Rings a bell? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So here are the 5 attributes to be a great Saas leader. You may want to read both Brad Feld\u2019s blog and the report in Teknovation (Links in the fist comment).  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* Start with the end in mind. (Remember Simon Sinek&#8217;s &#8211; Start with &#8216;Why&#8217;?). <br>* Recognize that you are always learning. \u201cYou\u2019re never too successful or old to learn,\u201d he said. <br>* Value your team and culture above everything. \u201cThe culture is always evolving,\u201d Dorsey noted. <br>* Be optimistic but never satisfied. <br>* Give back; (or as Brad Feld says &#8216;Give First&#8217;!). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Where I learnt it #204 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/feld.com\/archives\/2017\/10\/scott-dorseys-attributes-great-saas-leaders.html\">https:\/\/feld.com\/archives\/2017\/10\/scott-dorseys-attributes-great-saas-leaders.html<\/a><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.teknovation.biz\/27534\/\">https:\/\/www.teknovation.biz\/27534\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking around for attributes while building great Saas teams I came across this post by Brad Feld (Oct 2017). He writes about a Keynote by Scot Dorsey the founder of ExactTarget (sold to SalesForce for $2.5Bn in 2013) and currently the Managing Partner of High Alpha, a venture studio for next generation Enterprise Cloud companies.<\/p>\n<\/p><div class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/what-makes-great-saas-leaders-great\/\" class=\"btn btn-small btn--dark btn-hover-shadow\"><span class=\"text\">Continue Reading<\/span><i class=\"seoicon-right-arrow\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"ub_ctt_via":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,69],"tags":[70,78,187],"class_list":["post-2384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-saas","category-what-i-learnt-today","tag-alwayslearning","tag-saas","tag-leadership"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Subhanjan Sarkar","author_link":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/author\/subhanjan\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paX7jg-Cs","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}