Alan Gleon

Who is Alan Gleon?

Alan Gleon is the CEO of Contento, a SaaS company, and a recurring voice in the SaaStock community. At SaaStock Europe 2024 he stepped into a slightly different role than the typical founder on stage: rather than telling his own company's story, he hosted the SaaStock partner interview session, sitting down with Ben Leacock, Sales Director at Deel, to unpack how one of the fastest-growing companies in B2B software keeps customers at the centre of its operating model even as it scales at breakneck speed. That choice of format says something about Gleon himself. He is comfortable as a connector and an interviewer, drawing out practical lessons from other operators rather than simply broadcasting his own playbook.

Across the session, Gleon opened by introducing himself as the CEO of Contento before turning the spotlight on his guest, framing the conversation around what Deel actually does, the problems it solves, and how a company "clearly on the up" thinks about prioritising customer centricity while "blitzscaling." His questions were grounded and customer-focused: he pushed for concrete detail on the problems Deel solves and the shape of its solution, the kind of line of questioning that surfaces useful, transferable insight for an audience of SaaS founders and go-to-market leaders.

As a SaaStock partner-session host, Gleon represents the bridge between SaaStock's community of operators and the partners building tooling for them. This page collects Alan Gleon's recorded SaaStock appearances, including his SaaStock Europe 2024 partner spotlight with Deel, with transcripts, so you can revisit the full conversations in his own words and the words of his guests.

About Contento

Contento is the SaaS company Alan Gleon leads as CEO. While Gleon's SaaStock Europe 2024 session was dedicated to interviewing Deel rather than walking through Contento's own metrics, his role as host of a partner spotlight places Contento within SaaStock's partner ecosystem of software businesses serving the wider B2B SaaS community.

The themes Gleon chose to explore on stage are a good proxy for the questions that matter to him as an operator: how a high-growth company prioritises customer centricity while blitzscaling, what problems a modern SaaS solution actually solves for its buyers, and how sales leaders articulate that value. These are the disciplines that separate companies that merely grow fast from companies that grow fast and keep their customers, and they reflect a customer-first instinct that any SaaS leader would recognise.

Because the transcript does not state Contento's revenue, headcount, funding, or customer numbers, none are claimed here. What the appearance does establish is Gleon's posture as a CEO who learns in public, using the SaaStock stage to interrogate how peers scale responsibly rather than to make claims he cannot substantiate.

Key lessons from Alan Gleon's talks

Customer centricity and blitzscaling are not opposites. The central premise of Gleon's SaaStock Europe 2024 session, framed in his own questions, is that a company can scale at extreme speed and still keep the customer at the centre of how it operates. By choosing this as the topic for his Deel interview, Gleon signals that rapid growth and customer obsession should be designed to reinforce each other, not traded off.

Lead with the problem, not the product. Gleon repeatedly steered the conversation toward what Deel actually does and "what kind of problems Deel solves," rather than starting from features. For SaaS founders, this is a reminder that the clearest way to explain a solution is to first make the customer's problem unmistakable.

Learn by interviewing your peers. Instead of delivering a solo talk, Gleon used the partner spotlight format to extract practical insight from a sales leader at a company "clearly on the up." Hosting structured conversations with operators ahead of you is an underrated way for a CEO to pressure-test ideas and bring lessons back to their own team.

Ask grounded, specific questions. Gleon's framing, asking for a concrete sense of the problems solved and the shape of the solution, models how to get beyond surface-level pitch language. Specific questions produce specific, usable answers, both on stage and in the field with customers.