The Prime SaaStr Posts, Pods and Vids of the Week: HubSpot’s Chairman, Checkr’s CRO, Rippling’s CRO, and a brand new CRO Confidential!

Prime Posts:

#1:  2025 And The Rise of the “Mech AE” (Account Govt)

#2:  2025 Ought to Be Higher Than 2024 For Nearly All Main Public SaaS Firms

#3:  38% of Bootstrapped Begin-Ups Have Solo Founders. However Solely 17% of VC-Backed Ones Do. And 10%-12% of Ones That IPO.

#4:  What Actually Works When Hiring VPs, and How M&A Actually Works, with HubSpot Co-Founder and Chair Brian Halligan + Jason Lemkin

#5:  What’s Higher, X/Twitter or LinkedIn? Our Knowledge and Some Learnings

Prime Pods & Vids:

#1: HubSpot Co-Founder Brian Halligan on The way to Rent Nice VPs and How M&A Actually Works

#2: Utilization-Based mostly Income Fashions: Successes & Pitfalls from Checkr COO Lindsey Scrase on CRO Confidential

#3: From Outbound to Channel Partnerships: Your Burning Gross sales Questions Answered by Jason Lemkin

#4: The way to Assume About Product-Led Progress, Bootstrapping vs VC, and Early Exits with Jason Lemkin

#5:  The Income Playbook: Rippling’s Prime 3 Progress Ways at Scale with Rippling CRO Matt Plank