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Who Should Your VP of Product Report To?

SaaStr

Lately I’ve been working with 5+ SaaS companies all hiring their first VP of Product. That means often it’s not entirely clear who the first VP of Product should report to. A few general learnings: A VP of Product that Reports to CTO / Engineering Rarely Meets With That Many Customers.

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Meet BetterCloud’s New VP of Engineering, Lorinda Brandon

BetterCloud

Prior to joining BetterCloud as our new VP of engineering, she served as a director of engineering at Twilio. We sat down with Brandon to discuss her vision for engineering at BetterCloud, her approach to building teams, and her advice to young female engineers. I’m a big fan of creating innovation time.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Okta at $2.5 Billion in ARR

SaaStr

So Okta is one of our favorite SaaS and Cloud leaders. Founder CEO Todd McKinnon was VP of Engineering at Salesforce and left to start Okta in the depths of the last downturn. Much, Much, Much More Efficient Than 12-24 Months Ago The story of almost every Cloud leader. Wow, what an engine at $2.5

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What to Do If Your Business Decelerates

SaaStr

Cloud is so big today, that if you are past $1m-$2m ARR and have happy customers, you should be growing at a decent clip. I wrote a piece some time ago here, a person favorite, about Our Year of Hell. I wrote a piece some time ago here, a person favorite, about Our Year of Hell. At least some times. More on that here.

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10 Learnings from Talking with Todd McKinnon, CEO of Okta

SaaStr

Todd McKinnon, CEO of Okta, for the first time joined us at a SaaStr event, SaaStr Scale 2020. Customers believed in the early days — but many investors and potential hires often didn’t. The customers in the early days got how important identity and a single, federated log-in for Cloud apps was.

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Top Global SaaS Trends You Should Know with Google Cloud and Zenoss (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Join us for a fireside chat between Google Cloud and Zenoss, a leader in software-defined IT operations, as we discuss the most common and emerging challenges facing SaaS companies today for both technical and non-technical backgrounds. Eyal Manor – VP, Engineering @ Google Cloud. They wanted real-time results.

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Intercom’s Rich Archbold on how to run less software

Intercom, Inc.

It means reducing choices amongst engineering teams and standardizing technology, so our team can spend as much time as possible delivering value to customers. Rich Archbold , Senior Director of Engineering, has been at the forefront of codifying and scaling this philosophy over the past few years.