2008 Leadership New CTO Scaling 
SaaStr
JANUARY 10, 2020
At what scale does that become impossible? With more companies launching and thriving outside of Silicon Valley, regions such as ‘Silicon Slopes’ in Utah and ‘Silicon Alley’ in New York City are gaining traction within the startup scene. * Does Bob agree with the notion that channel sales have completely died in the world of SaaS?
SaaStr
MARCH 3, 2020
You can come up to me after this and I can give you a list of 10 people, but find somebody that’s been a VP of Sales before successfully in a startup, scaled that to some level of success and make that person sort of an independent arbiter of that process. You may have been at Box in 2006 or LinkedIn in 2008. I don’t care.
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SaaStr
MARCH 20, 2019
Prior to founding Twilio, Jeff was the Founder & CTO @ Nine Star Inc and enjoyed a spell at Amazon as a Technical Product Manager. Before that, he worked for 12 years at Trilogy, where he held key leadership roles helping the company grow from a start-up to a $300 million business. What were his core learnings from that? *
SaaStr
MAY 2, 2019
And then it was just a matter of, okay, make sure that it works, make sure that it scales, then very important not to forget, make sure that people buy it, that they know how to find you, you know. en you start saying, scaling and what does that even mean? They’re really giving them money to scale the business. Vlad : Ye ah.
SaaStr
JULY 10, 2021
The panelists offer their insights, which at times conflict with the viewpoints of other panelists, on hiring a cohesive team that can really scale the business. As you said, people take it hard if suddenly you say, “Hey, this is your new EVP. Then help you scale it and bring some of that expertise to the table.
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