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“The “Dos & Don’ts” of Building Winning SaaS Companies with G2 Crowd (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

I think in 2002 we only signed up two customers and this was after the dot-com bubble burst, 9/11 happened. And I thank a lot of that to actually Met Gourniak, who I hired at that time. And even if you haven’t started a company, I remember my CTO for my first company BigMachines was Vic Austin.

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Why 2019 Is The Year Of Growth Engineering In SaaS

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These roles are filled by engineers that roll up to the CMO/COO (not CTO) as part of a growth team. In 2002, Aaron Ross's Predictable Revenue playbook from his time at Salesforce was published. Since this is a post about engineering, here's the obligatory "we're hiring" plug, including growth engineers.

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SaaStr Podcast #394 with Sunil Dhaliwal and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

I just came out of Stripe, I just came out of Datadog, I came out of Fastly, I’m an engineer, I love the guy that was the CTO of Fastly who [inaudible 00:08:34] making it up. Just like a whole bunch of people said, “I’ll never hire remote.” And all of a sudden they’re like, “I guess, I could hire remote.”