How to build a scalable SaaS business

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Leanplum is a leading multi-channel customer engagement platform. By transforming customer data from multi-communication channels, Leanplum has powered large retail customers like Tesco and Zynga. Founded in San Francisco, Leanplum has offices across North America, Europe, and Asia, and has received more than $125 Million in funding from leading Silicon Valley venture capital firms.

Join the fireside chat with Leanplum's founder Momchil & Sequoia partner Bogomil to learn about the story behind building a hugely successful SaaS business.

Speakers:

Momchil Kyurkchiev - CPO & Founder at Leanplum

Momchil Kyurkchiev is a leading expert in multi-channel customer engagement and the co-founder and CPO of Leanplum, a startup headquartered in San Francisco and with offices in New York, Denver, Amsterdam, Singapore, and Sofia. Prior to leading the product, Momchil served as the CEO at Leanplum for 8 years where he scaled the company to 100+ employees and raised $98M in funding from top-tier VCs like Kleiner Perkins and Shasta Ventures. Momchil has been awarded Founder of the Year by Central European Startup Awards, was on the cover of Forbes Magazine Bulgaria, and has appeared on Bloomberg TV, bTV and TEDx. Under his leadership, Leanplum has been ranked a Top 3 Best Place to Work in the Bay Area.

Bogomil Balkansky - Partner at Sequoia

Bogomil Balkansky is a Partner at Sequoia. Previously, he was a VP at Google leading the go-to-market activities for recruiting-related products. Before Google, Bogomil was an early employee at bebop - an enterprise applications startup acquired by Google. Prior to this entrepreneurial endeavor, Bogomil was an executive at VMware where he played a pivotal role in steering VMware’s flagship server virtualization product line to cross the chasm and become the de-facto standard in every datacenter. He started his career as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. Bogomil holds a bachelor of arts in mathematics from Cornell University and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.