Hitenism

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

In a Quora thread , Ian McAllister, Director of Airbnb and former GM of Amazon describes the process: “ For new initiatives a product manager typically starts by writing an internal press release announcing the finished product. All the way back in 2002, Jeff Bezos issued a 6-point mandate to engineers at Amazon.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

I guess, if my strategy was to show up and to try and lead an $80 million round and write a $50 million check to do that, and you’re like, “Wait a second, 275 divided by five people, your piece of that’s probably 55. If I get picked, do I want the more experienced partner, the new partner? Jason Lemkin: Yeah.

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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. But my co-founders has done an amazing job, creating a scale platform that now has 600,000 reviews and 3 million SaaS software buyers coming every month looking for products like yours. This was in 1997, and I spent two years.

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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. In 2002, Aaron Ross's Predictable Revenue playbook from his time at Salesforce was published. It made sense then.

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