SaaStr

JULY 28, 2021

I retired from SunGard Treasury Systems as their CTO. When you find the right partner, the right investor, what they can do in terms of helping you grow and scale a company is just invaluable. You have to learn things like how do I scale my sales force? Your big money is going to go into hiring your employees.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

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. Jason Lemkin: 50 reps in a new city that you’ve never met, and hired in 60 days when you’re in the low millions ARR.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 2, 2020

I retired from SunGard Treasury Systems as their CTO. When you find the right partner, the right investor, what they can do in terms of helping you grow and scale a company is just invaluable. You have to learn things like how do I scale my sales force? I really try to never lose a game of chicken. Turned out it became who I am.

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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. We can help you scale your business, or you can go with an inferior solution. Like we saw Instacart and Uber Eats and Postmates and DoorDash, just their businesses were scaling so fast. We did that.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

SMB Sales & SDRs at (Smaller) Scale [18:20]. He then founded Tellme Networks, sold that in 2007 for $900 million to Microsoft. We were part of the office of the CTO. At that time, Marc Andreessen, the founder was the CTO of the company and there were only three of us in the group. Sam’s Corner [41:10].

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

And from about 2007 till 2010 we bootstrapped and built the first version of the Pluralsight you see today. The evidence that made it super clear in the end was that we were not closing big deals with technology buyers at scale. So, let me walk you through that. We’re going to change things. Where’s the skills gap?

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