Remove 2007 Remove CTO Hire Remove Innovation Remove Underperforming Technical Team
article thumbnail

How to Think of R&D Spend

Andreessen Horowitz

Most growth-stage CEOs I work with know how to tell if they’re efficiently allocating capital in every part of their budget with one glaring exception: research and development (R&D). Imagine if, in 2007, Netflix decided to follow the 70–20–10 rule. And finding inefficiencies in overhead (e.g.,

article thumbnail

Busting the Myths About Startup Success with BlackLine’s Founder CEO (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

We’re continuing to innovate. My marketing team wanted me to do the world’s most boring video. I retired from SunGard Treasury Systems as their CTO. 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 background music]. background music].

Startup 268