Apr 28, 2023
11:00am - 12:00pm
PDT

DisrupTV is a weekly Web series with hosts R "Ray" Wang and Vala Afshar. The show airs live at 11:00 a.m. PT/ 2:00 p.m. ET every Friday. The audience can expect A-list guests, the latest enterprise news, hot startups, insight from influencers, and much more. Tweet questions to #DisrupTV or @DisrupTVShow. We broadcast live on StreamYard. 

Show Link: https://www.youtube.com/user/ConstellationR

Featured Guests:

 

Jason M. Lemkin
SaaS Founder, Enthusiast & VC

Jason M. Lemkin is a 2x founder, 1x VC, and constant SaaS enthusiast.

He led or sourced the first VC investments in many leading enterprise/SaaS start-ups, Guidespark, Greenhouse.io, Pipedrive, Algolia, Talkdesk, Parklet.co, RainforestQA, Salesloft, Avanoo, Perfect Pipeline, Logikcull, and more. Collectively, these start-ups are worth in excess of one billion dollars.

He is also an advisor or smaller investor in Showpad, FrontApp, Influitive, BetterWorks, and other SaaS leaders. Jason has co-founded two successful start-ups selling to the enterprise. Before SaaStr and VC investing, he was CEO and co-founder of EchoSign, the web’s most popular electronic signature service, from inception through its acquisition by Adobe Systems Inc.

He then served as Vice President, Web Services at Adobe, where he oversaw the growth of EchoSign and Adobe Document Services to $50,000,000 in ARR in 2012 and $100,000,000+ ARR in 2013.

Prior to EchoSign and Adobe, he co-founded one of the only successes in nanotechnology, NanoGram Devices, which was acquired for $50m just 13 months after founding. The technology, built into implantable power cells, has gone on to help extend the lives of thousands.

Follow him on Twitter: @jasonlk

 


Dheeraj Pandey
CEO & Co-Founder of DevRev

Dheeraj Pandey is a veteran entrepreneur having held several CEO and EVP roles during his 20+ year long career in software technology. Currently, he is the CEO & Co-Founder of DevRev, a fully-remote tech company with a platform that converges the silos of sales, marketing, support, and engineering to “Act as One”.

Before launching DevRev, Dheeraj was the founder, CEO, and chairman of Nutanix, a software company focused on hybrid cloud infrastructure, which was the most valuable IPO in 2016. Previously he was VP of Engineering at Aster Data (now Teradata), where he helped build the product and its engineering team from the ground up, and was a senior software developer at Oracle.

Dheeraj currently serves as a board member at Adobe and sits on the board of advisors at his alma mater, the University of Texas at Austin Department of Computer Science, where he earned a MS in Computer Science from UT Austin. His undergraduate studies in computer science were competed at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

Follow him on Twitter: @dheeraj

 

Paulo Savaget
Author of The Four Workarounds 

Paulo Savaget, author of The Four Workarounds, is associate professor at Oxford University’s Engineering Sciences Department and the Saïd Business School. He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge as a Gates Scholar and has a background working as a lecturer, consultant, entrepreneur, and researcher finding innovative solutions for a more inclusive world. As a consultant, he worked on projects for large companies, non-profits, government agencies in Latin America, and the OECD. He currently resides in Oxford.

Follow him on Twitter: @paulosavaget