SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2022

While startups have ups and downs, if you tell the VCs you’re going to hit $250,000 in revenue this month … make 100 percent sure you hit that projection. At least, just that one month during the funding process. I don’t see this all the time, but I see it too often. But don’t disclose this at the last minute.

Finance 282

Finance Technical Review CTO Hire New CTO 282

SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

Brendon introduces his playbook to hiring the first VP of Sales from his experiences as VP of Sales at LinkedIn, EchoSign, Talkdesk and more. Learn the dos and don’ts to make the correct hire the first time and not rush into hiring the wrong VP of Sales, which can cost the company months or even years. Roughly 90%.

Sales Hiring 158

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting CTO Hire Scale 158

SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

My co founders and I were software developers, so we knew how to write the code, to build the website, to build the learning platform, to build the video distribution model. The first few dozen courses that we published on the platform were authored by the Pluralsight co founders. .” So we built it quickly and we shipped it.

B2B 134

B2B B2C Scale New CTO 134

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

We’re not exactly sure how, but yes, it’s that time of the year again. More than integrations and features and quarterly reports, back in August, Intercom turned 10. Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Lessons learned on leadership with Karen Peacock and Leandra Fishman.

VP of Engineering 118

VP of Engineering Scale Technical Review Outsourcing Services 118

SaaStr

JULY 19, 2019

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. Why is it no longer to come into large enterprises with a small contract and expand? How has Peter found the transition from CTO to CEO this time?

VP of Engineering 130

VP of Engineering CTO Hire Technical Review Sales Hiring 130

SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

I mean, maybe you do, but I don’t know anyone right now with extra money, time, or people, right? Provide a platform, not a tool, that can be a consolidator and something that can drive costs, but still have all the features necessary to get the business results. The problem was he couldn’t find a platform to use.

Payment Methods 206

Payment Methods Merchant Services Scale Payments 206

SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Yousuf Khan: Well, the CIO is fundamentally owning the business technology function of the company. And by business technology function I want to define that because sometimes there’s a overlap with the CTO from an engineering side. My advice is hire earlier rather than later.

Technical Advisors 164

Technical Advisors Scale Technical Review Payment Solutions 164