SaaStr

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Well, we did the heavy lifting and highlighted a few here for you… “When to Hire and When to Automate” with Zapier CEO Wade Foster. David Sacks has a long history in tech from his time as a Founder and CEO of Geni.com and Yammer to his stint as COO of Paypal. So, how do you choose amongst the stable of unicorns?

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Hull

JANUARY 22, 2019

These roles are filled by engineers that roll up to the CMO/COO (not CTO) as part of a growth team. Second, cloud-hosted SaaS apps meet “consumerized” technology buyers via a freemium sales models. For example, as a lead is nurtured and converts to become a customer, you might need to: Integrate payments (Stripe).

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

So my father sat down with me in our basement, and I remember working in this makeshift workstation that we built together and we learned how to code, because back then there weren’t a lot of applications, there weren’t a lot of games, a lot of software to be used, so we actually had to create it ourselves.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. In this special episode, we sat down with Zanade to talk about allyship, empowering Black-owned businesses, and what it takes to change deeply seated systemic issues and affect policy at a national level. There is so much knowledge in the sales CRM systems.

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SaaStr

JULY 19, 2019

Prior to InCountry, Peter founded six and sold 6 enterprise software companies that were acquired by Sun, Citrix, VMware, Oracle, Sprinklr and Prograph. Previously, Peter was also the CTO/CIO of CBS Interactive where he brought CBS into the cloud. At Sun, Peter was the CTO of the Liberty identity consortium that designed SAML 2.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

A thanks to [Marsh 00:00:34] for stepping in at the beginning of the month, and a great session with our own Jason Warner and Adrian, the CTO of Zendesk. Lionetti, the CMO at Confluent, and most recently, the CTO from Zendesk, Adrian. Excited to be back emceeing. That was the start of the Month of Scale. ” Who doesn’t?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Join this panel of investors from Connect Ventures, Blossom Capital, Dawn Capital, The Family, and Indico Partners as they provide an overview of the current investment landscape, and discuss whether the seed stage is emerging as the new Series A. We are a $50 million fund based in Lisbon, and we invest mainly in seed stage.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

CEO Joel Gascoigne tells us about the decision to invest in new analytics tools and how Buffer sustained long-term growth thanks to growing their ARPA. For the first 2-3 years of Buffer’s existence, Joel and his team did not need a specialized solution for subscription analytics. The Solution: Invest in a revamped data infrastructure.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

That question has been on Will Larson ‘s mind for a long time. For those who don’t know him, Will has over 10 years of experience in the likes of Yahoo, Digg, Uber, and Stripe, and he’s currently the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app that helps millions of people to lower their stress levels and sleep better.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

And by business technology function I want to define that because sometimes there’s a overlap with the CTO from an engineering side. And I think the reason for that is, is that because of the interconnectedness of systems and architecture, there has been a big role of enterprise architecture across the company.

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

And unfortunately it wasn’t Larry and Sergei who we’re starting Google at the same time, but it was two other students doing something much more mundane. They were building time and expense software. And so we started building a cloud solution, but it was a long arduous journey. He and I went to MIT together.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

Has been CEO before, was CEO of Alfresco Software and long career in software and comes in, I think, with a lot of passion for customers and customer success, which I’m excited to hear about and also comes in live streaming, my understanding is from a boat right now, right Bernadette? This is not a winnable solution.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

Now he’s a partner making investments on the VC side at Foundation Capital with over 20 years of operational experience. Now he’s a partner making investments on the VC side at Foundation Capital, but has over 20 years of operational experience. We invest in technology companies typically at the earliest stages.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 12, 2020

This is a relationship worth investing in. If you are trying to overcome no brand and market, you can’t ask somebody for a three year contract. Or, if you do ask for a three year contract, have some terms in there that show that you’re going to prove ROI. Down the road, you can say, “ I demand a two year contract.

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Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Investment funds like Indie.VC The company had for a few years prior followed a growth-first path, hiring aggressively and prioritizing projects designed to make an immediate impact on their growth rate. Wistia Funding History $650,000 from angel investors in 2008 $775,000 from angel investors in 2010 $17.3M

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

And I think part of it's because you've been in the game for a while and you're incredibly successful. Is your title CTO? Dharmesh: Yes, CTO. How do you have time to have your hands in all this different stuff? We're going to talk about why you invest in what you invest. You can invest in things.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

And I think part of it's because you've been in the game for a while and you're incredibly successful. Is your title CTO? Dharmesh: Yes, CTO. How do you have time to have your hands in all this different stuff? We're going to talk about why you invest in what you invest. You can invest in things.

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