FastSpring

MARCH 10, 2023

Our former Director of Content and Community spoke to Alf about managing a happy team, how he’s grown his company without external funding, the history of developing in the Mac ecosystem, and running a consulting and software business. Stream the full interview below or find it wherever you listen to podcasts. Alf Ruppert Yes.

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Consulting Underperforming Technical Team Interviewing Software 78

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MARCH 23, 2020

Agile Agile software development has been such a success that people now apply the “agile” moniker to a broad range of areas. An example of diminishing returns is Google’s hiring process - the technology giant discovered that four interviews was enough to predict whether someone should be hired with 86% confidence.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service 213

SaaStr

MAY 24, 2019

235: Andrew Filev is the Founder & CEO @ Wrike, the cloud based collaboration and project management software that scales across teams in any business. In Dec 2008, Vista Equity Partners acquired a majority stake in Wrike for a deal reportedly valuing the company at $800m. Andrew Filev. Andy Wilson.

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Sales Hiring Scale SMB Sales Recruiting 145

Point Nine Land

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Jack had a background in software development and Rian was working as an IT manager at Gowling, Canada’s largest law firm. Up until this point, Jack and Rian had been dividing up all the tasks between them, including software development, sales, and customer service. The two were looking to launch a startup together.

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Technical Review Scale Sales Hiring Business 40

SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2019

Really quickly, I am a software developer and I’d started multiple companies before Twilio. We needed to engage with our customers in clever and creative ways or integrate it with the software we’re building. Every time it happened I would say I’m, I’m a software developer.

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Underperforming Technical Team Development Software New CTO 124

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

I realized after three or four weeks that retirement was boring and then set up a gaming software company called Inspire Gaming Group. And that went on to become a monster, I floated it on the London Stock Exchange in 2006, exited it in 2008 for about a half a billion bucks and that brings us up to the latest bunch of companies.

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Transportation Business Travel Underperforming Technical Team 183

SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2022

is an Indian software development company headquartered in Chennai. The services provided by Zoho include Zoho CRM, inventory management, mobile application development, project time tracking, collaborative client portal, and more. Capillary Technologies was founded in 2008 by Ajay Modani, Aneesh Reddy, and Krishna Mehra.

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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payments 11