SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2024

At SaaStr Annual we had a great session with HubSpot Founder & CTO, Dharmesh Shah, and their Chief People Officer, Katie Burke, on building happier employees. Also, don’t miss out on discounted prices for SaaStr Annual 2024 tickets. Or, my favorite, I’m new, this is my first time.

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Part-Time CTO CTO Hire CTO Coach CTO 247

SaaStr

MAY 10, 2023

Combining Strong Growth With A New Level of Efficiency. Pricing is up a modest but material 6% on a constant currency basis, and 3% on an as-reported basis, from a year ago. #3. We did a deep dive here with CTO Dharmesh Shah a little while back: And a few other interesting learnings: #6. Basically, we all have to now. #2.

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Scale SMB Headcount New CTO 237

Hull

JANUARY 22, 2019

Over the past few years, we've seen a new role emerging at within scaling startups - the growth engineer. These roles are filled by engineers that roll up to the CMO/COO (not CTO) as part of a growth team. This is not new. By 2000, cookie-based A/B testing on web birthed the "Conversion Rate Optimization" industry.

SaaS Payments 77

SaaS Payments Technical Advisors Engineering Payment Solutions 77

SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2019

In the last two years there have been so many new services around security, around machine learning that literally did not exist. Megan Leuders: So a great example of that is when we’re selling to a large financial institution and we do sell to kind of the Global 2000. At Zenoss, again, our target market is Global 2000.

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Cloud Scale Trends Machine Learning 165

SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

I remember when I was in business school the internet was brand new and back then the hero was Jerry Yang. Tim Handorf you can see there, joined me at BigMachines in 2000. And even if you haven’t started a company, I remember my CTO for my first company BigMachines was Vic Austin. This was in 1997, and I spent two years.

Sales Recruiting 161

Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Payments 161

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

What about, as someone who’s gone from your own solo GP fund in 2012 to a team, how does a founder think about a new partner? Because, on the one hand it’s exciting, and what I see a lot today is founders often bond with a new partner. If I get picked, do I want the more experienced partner, the new partner?

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