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

A couple of weeks ago, we launched a new podcast called SaaSOps Leaders With David Politis. So, 2006 or 2007. I just knew there was always going to be something new to learn and I wasn’t going to get stagnant in it. ” At that time, I said, “You know what, I think I really want to become a CIO or CTO.”

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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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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

About My First 16 Our new video podcast series My First 16 features interviews with founders and CEOs of fintech companies about how they acquired their initial customers and the hard lessons they learned along the way. And we felt that we couldn’t fail them and fail these new customers coming in at the same time.

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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

What sets apart some of the most successful, high-growth companies we see today—Slack, Dropbox, Atlassian—has been their ability to tap into and master a new GTM strategy: B2C2B. And from about 2007 till 2010 we bootstrapped and built the first version of the Pluralsight you see today. Then something really interesting happened.

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