Mark Mader, President and CEO of Smartsheet, on Staying Accountable and Scaling a High Growth SaaS Company

As President and CEO of Smartsheet (NYSE: SMAR), Mark Mader leads a company committed to transforming the way organizations plan, track, manage, automate, and report on work at scale. With over 20 years executive leadership experience driving innovation for high-growth Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) companies, Mark is a recognized leader in the technology community. He has been named Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year in Technology for the Pacific Northwest, and GeekWire's CEO of the Year. Under his leadership, Smartsheet was named Washington's Best Workplace by the Puget Sound Business Journal, and Seattle's Next Tech Titan by GeekWire. In this episode, learn how Mark grew Smartsheet from a six-employee startup to a publicly traded company with over 1000 employees serving 82,000 customers. When Smartsheet started in 2006, productivity apps were not ubiquitous like they are today. How did Mark and his team convince investors and customers that Smartsheet was solving for what spreadsheets don't do well? Why did Smartsheet host their first customer conference just three years ago? What did Mark look for in new board members heading into Smartsheet's IPO? Get the answers to these questions and more in this episode.

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Mark Mader, President and CEO of Smartsheet, on Staying Accountable and Scaling a High Growth SaaS Company is an episode from Founder Real Talk by GGV Capital.

This episode is 36:26 long.

This episode was published on Nov 14, 2019.

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