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

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

They’ve invested in all of these other businesses. Immediately told them to hire 50 reps in a different city, in a different city, and they did. The CEO was deferential because that was 10 times what he’d ever raised before, and did all of it. We might’ve touched on this one too on the hiring and the people.

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SaaStr

JULY 28, 2021

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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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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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

We sold that at the end of 2007 and I stayed on with MoneyGram International who acquired the company until the end of 2009. It was just being in, I think it was in Copenhagen at the time as where the Money20/20 first started. It was talking to their CTO and team at the time. And they were seeing lots of fraud.

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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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