The role of the CEO in scaling to $250M with Corey Thomas [LIVE]

During SaaStock18, alongside three tracks and a Startup Pitch
stage, we ran a podcast studio. During the two days of the
conference, Inside Intercom, Nathan Latka, Growth Everywhere,
Build by Openview, Open SaaS Mic, The Startup Chat, and 14
Minutes of SaaS all recorded interviews with our speakers, which
they will be releasing in the following weeks.


We too recorded three episodes of the SaaS Revolution Show, which
we look forward to publishing in the coming weeks.


This week we are bringing you the first of those, a conversation
with Corey Thomas, CEO of Rapid7. When he joined 10 years ago,
the company was just about making 5 million in revenue and
employed about 50 people. By the time Corey became the CEO, 5
years later, the revenue was 40 million. In 2015 the company went
public. This year it is forecasted to reach 250 million in
revenue. When asked how all that came about Corey says it was a
lot of people, figuring out a lot of complicated stuff non-stop.


As the CEO, Corey has a clear plan in place how they are going to
reach the next important milestones such as 500 million and 1
billion in revenue.


But what is the role of the CEO in such scale, concretely?


Listen on to learn:


How Corey views the role of the CEO

A key CEO strategy for success

One innovation that has really helped Rapid7 scale



Alongside popping at the podcast stage, Corey also sat down for a
conversation with David Skok on the Scale stage. You can watch
that conversation as well as a 100 other sessions we hosted by
getting our SaaStock On Demand pack. You can grab a super early
bird ticket for SaaStock19 until November 1st.


 


 


 


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