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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Crossbeam and Podium – January 10, 2020

SaaStr

At what scale does that become impossible? How does Bob think about when is the right time to hire a Head of Partnerships? Where do most startups go wrong both in hiring for partnerships and in the engagements themselves? Bob Moore: All those things the first time you do them they are painful and difficult to formulate.

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Meet BetterCloud’s New VP of Quality, Daniel Waithe

BetterCloud

Daniel Waithe ’s career in Quality Assurance (QA) began in 2004, when he worked as a QA analyst for Citigroup. Secondarily, I had a chance to chat with [CTO Jamie Tischart ] even before he joined the company. For me, when I’m assessing good hires, I look for some key things that I think can survive any of those things.

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The Road Now Taken: 4 SaaS Start-ups And Their Quest For Independent Growth

Outseta

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 is certainly not the first tech company to suffer from over-scaling, but their story is both unique and illuminating for a number of reasons. of the $3.5M

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Transcript of Redpoint Office Hours with Stripe’s Chief Corporate Advisor and former COO, Claire Hughes Johnson and Redpoint Managing Director, Tomasz Tunguz

Tom Tunguz

We’re excited to continue the Month of Scale here for Redpoint Office Hours. 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. That was the start of the Month of Scale. Travis Bryant : All right, let’s get started.

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

SaaStr

I came back to G2 as a CEO about three quarters ago after a little bit time at SteelBrick. 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. ” So it was a very hard time for us.