The Razor’s Edge
The Razor’s Edge
Shortman Studios
The Razor's Edge #16: Talking SaaS With Investor and Tech Veteran Justen Stepka
58 minutes Posted May 29, 2020 at 8:00 am.
minute mark The importance of R&D in retention
Product stickiness vs. ease of use
Evaluating R&D as a competitive edge
The importance of dogfooding
Okta's position
How can a software company really be on sale in this market?
ServiceNow's position
What's next in the industry, where is Justen watching, and what does the private market look like?
The change in perspective from being an insider to an outside investor
Work from Home and its broader effects
Commercial real estate
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We continue to follow the software as a service sector and the impact of the work from home world, but this time with an outside perspective. Justen Stepka, the founder of Authentisoft and then a longtime product management executive at Atlassian and Docker, joined us to talk about his positions in Slack and Atlassian and what makes the companies stand out. Currently the co-CEO/co-founder of Enterprise Fund, a private equity firm, he also shares his views on the work from home environment we're in and its potential knock-on effects, as well as what he's seeing in private markets.
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