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Top SaaStr Content for the Week: UiPath’s CEO and Founder, SaaStr’s CEO, Stage A and Workshop sessions from SaaStr Europa, and lots more!

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Answers from the CEOs of Twilio, Veeva, Amplitude, HubSpot, Gainsight and More What Your First 100 Hires Will Look Like Top Podcasts This Week: 1. SaaStr 666: Scaling a SaaS Startup to $1B+ ARR: Insights from UiPath’s CEO and Founder Daniel Dines  2. Scaling a SaaS Startup to $1B+ ARR: Insights from UiPath’s CEO and Founder 2.

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SaaStr is Turning 10! How a Blog Turned into A Global SaaS Community for 250,000+

SaaStr

This led to our first meet-ups in 2013 and 2014, the first SaaStr Annual in 2015 , the industry’s leading podcast in 2016, the first SaaS founder coworking space in 2017, and SaaStr Pro , the first learning management system for SaaS founders in 2018. Teams saw on another in-person instead of behind a screen for the first time.

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Leadership Learnings: 5 Things I Wish I Could Have Told My 2013 Self With Advisor and Former CTO of Heap Dan Robinson (Pod 663 + Video)

SaaStr

Dan Robinson, current Advisor and former CTO at Heap , shares five essential learnings from nearly a decade of building a SaaS business. What Your Job Is (And What It Isn’t) Your Job is to Make the Company Win A CTO may imagine their primary job is to provide technical expertise, lead engineers, and help build the product.

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I Asked 13 Buffer Leaders for Advice on Succeeding in My New Role

Buffer Resources

Time at Buffer: 11 years, 6 months Andy was one of Buffer’s earliest hires. Adam Farmer, Senior Escalations Manager & Customer Experience Lead 📍Started at Buffer in November 2013 as a Happiness Hero 🌎 Location: Florida, U.S.   4. Åsa ” 5. ” 12.

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Building a sales team that can go from $0-$50M (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Gaetan Gachet : So myself, I joined the company back in 2013. I was the second employee at the time, the first one in a non-technical role. So you were the first sales hire. Talk to me about the sales hires that you made back in the early days and talk to me about how it changed through the different stages. Okay, cool.

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Women in Tech – Female CxOs Share their Challenges in Tech Startups – with Melissa Kwan, Alice de Courcy, Maja Voje, Laura Erdem & others

User Pilot

This could be explained by the fact that it was women, more often than men, who had to step down and work part-time to take care of stay-at-home children during the pandemic. Then I got hired at a tech company in Lithuania before I knew what tech even was. Sometimes once, sometimes twice, sometimes three times.

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Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot: From Day 0 to IPO. What Went to Plan. What Most Certainly Didn’t (Video, Podcast + Transcript)

SaaStr

Co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah shared with us how they got there — and the top mistakes they made — just 3 quarters after their IPO. million in 2013 to $115.9 million in 2013 to $115.9 ” We didn’t do any annual contracts. But of course, it wasn’t always quite that big! A SaaStr Classic!!