Building and rapidly scaling a SaaS business is no easy feat for CEOs. You know you need to hire phenomenal talent from the ground up. But some of the most important “hires” may in fact be your board.

Since founding Namely in 2012, CEO Matt Straz has worked to build a best-in-class board. He started with a cast of all-star investors, including Pat Grady (Sequoia Capital) and David Skok (Matrix Partners).

Last year, having raised $157.8M and grown to over 1,000 clients, Namely was poised for its next stage of growth and set out to find the company’s first independent board member—Elisa Steele (former CEO of Jive Software).

VC Pat Grady joins Matt for a candid conversation on building your dream board of directors—from identifying the need, to how to know when you’ve found the right person, to sustaining and leveraging relationships that propel your business forward.