Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 4, 2023

To improve the efficiency of spend on cost of goods sold (COGS), most growth-stage leaders can optimize seat-based spend or renegotiate consumption-based contracts in a quarter or 2. Focus on performance management of your product and engineering teams as early indicators for what R&D investments are working, and which aren’t.

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BetterCloud

AUGUST 6, 2021

I also knew that it wouldn’t be something that I’d get bored with over time. So, 2006 or 2007. ” At that time, I said, “You know what, I think I really want to become a CIO or CTO.” I really learned from the managers who came before me, including the person who hired me.

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SaaStr

JULY 28, 2021

We’ve convinced more than a thousand great big companies to put their financial data into our private cloud. I retired from SunGard Treasury Systems as their CTO. Bootstrapped because nobody in their right mind would have actually invested in us back then and took it up until 2014 as a bootstrapped company.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 2, 2020

I retired from SunGard Treasury Systems as their CTO. Bootstrapped, because nobody in their right mind would have actually invested in us back then and took it up until 2014 as a bootstrapped company. In fact, one of our decisions, in 2007, we had to decide, are we going to sell SaaS or are we going to be an on?prem

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

Now he’s a partner making investments on the VC side at Foundation Capital with over 20 years of operational experience. He then founded Tellme Networks, sold that in 2007 for $900 million to Microsoft. We invest in technology companies typically at the earliest stages. We were part of the office of the CTO.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

That was when a new vision formed beyond the physical classroom to what would later become our cloud, where we can teach anyone anywhere the digital technology skills of the future. And from about 2007 till 2010 we bootstrapped and built the first version of the Pluralsight you see today. So, let me walk you through that.

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